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Every year when the azalea and eucalyptus bushes begin to bloom in the citrus belt, the winter golf tour gets underway and people begin to wonder if Jack Nicklaus will reassert his dominance or if the golden hours of the Golden Bear are finally winding down...
...United Farm Workers union is on the move, still powerful, still convinced of eventual victory, but a victory which will be hard-won. La Causa continues the good fight, in the fields where a massive organizing effort is underway, on the picket lines, over the conference table with intransigent growers, and in the day-to-day scramble to survive. Yet those of us who assumed the strike had been won are needed again. The great majority of people who pick the food for our tables are still unprotected by a union contract, still subjected to brutal work conditions in order...
Although elections still command much of the spotlight, the UFW has to focus its very limited resources on getting negotiations underway. For example, at Coachella Growers (citrus), the UFW won the union election, but the company has harassed workers by stopping bus service and cutting back the work week. Workers must now get up at 4 a.m. if they wish to commute; otherwise they must live in the labor camp which is expensive and only accomodates men. Growers have said no to a UFW hiring hall, no to a grievance procedure, and no to UFW medical and pension plans...
...case you overlooked it in the small grey type below the boxscores, the NCAA Handball Tournament gets underway this morning in Chattanooga, Tenn...
Tutoring, Joyce Grant says, provides the most direct service to students but is only one part of the total Roxbury/Harvard effort. Six or seven other programs are underway, and the two which Grant says command the most energy are the reading and career development programs...