Word: ufw
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...United Farm Workers (UFW), led by Cesar Chavez, has called for a nationwide boycott of all non-union lettuce. The UFW is the same group that organized the recent grape boycott...
...main issue in the lettuce boycott is the right of the lettuce pickers to form their own union. The UFW has been trying to organize farm workers in California's Salinas Valley, but lettuce growers have resisted, and have refused to recognize the UFW as the legitimate bargaining representative of the workers...
...teamsters have publicly announced their support of the UFW. They want to get out of their contract with the lettuce growers, but it's to the growers' advantage to hold them to it. The teamsters probably won't be able to get out of the contract until the boycott is as complete as it was with grapes," Levin added...
Earlier this week, the group presented to the University food purchasers a petition signed by nearly 1700 students asking that Harvard buy only UFW lettuce. The purchasers informed the students that although 80 per cent of Harvard lettuce is union-picked, any decision to buy only union lettuce would violate both Harvard's neutrality and its economic obligation to the students...
Though impressed by the petition, L.Gard Wiggins, Administrative Vice President, said that any commitment to purchase only UFW lettuce would jeopardize Harvard's neutrality...