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...working conditions of strawberry farm workers in California. Speakers will include Professors Cornel West and John Womack, long-time activist Sister Tess Browne and two worker activists. The talk is meant to raise awareness on campus of the attempts to unionize strawberry workers by the United Farm Workers (UFW...
...past several years, the UFW has been trying to unionize the 20,000 strawberry workers in California. Every effort to do so has been met with vicious resistance by the strawberry growers. Initially, attempts were made to organize single farms. Each time a farm was successfully unionized, however, the growers used tactics such as plowing under fields to prevent the union from becoming established...
...present focus of the UFW is on the industry as a whole. This is because the strawberry growers have banded together to use their collective force to attack the efforts of the UFW. In doing so, the growers are effectively preventing decent living conditions in the fields. It is only by organizing the entire industry at once that the challenge...
...battle the UFW has expanded its focus beyond the fields. Organizers have recently been engaged in a campaign to get supermarkets and other consumers to sign a pledge in support of the workers' right to vote for a union, free of intimidation by the growers...
...this date, four of the seven largest supermarket chains in the country have endorsed the UFW pledge. The shift of the UFW campaign from a local struggle to a national attempt to generate pressure on the growers makes our role as students, located far from the strawberry fields of California, important...