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Cesar Chavez, director of the United Farm Workers union, arrived in Boston early this morning to take part in a drive to enlist support for the UFW's boycott of non-union California lettuce and table grapes...
Last night over 500 of the UFW's Boston-area farm workers and their supporters gathered to hear Dolores Huerta, vice president of the UFW, report from California via a telephone loud-speaker connection. Huerta spoke about the conditions facing the UFW's strikers there...
...UFW called the strike and boycott after all but two California grape growers failed to renew their UFW contracts last month. Nearly all of the growers have since signed labor contracts with the Teamsters Union...
...importing scab labor (many of whom arrive not knowing they are strike-breakers and who are coerced to keep working by the Teamsters' inelegant persuasions!). The bitter fruit of this labor is now arriving at stores in your neighborhood. If these grapes sell, the next bunch of growers with UFW contracts to renew (in July) will follow the lead of their Coachella peers and invite the Teamsters to "organize" the fields on their terms i.e., a lower hourly wage; no restriction on the use of condemned sprays; reinstitution of the slave-labor contractor system (shades...
...Growers understand sales. The memory of the last great boycott is their recurring nightmare. If the grocers find their customers turning away, the Delano and Fresno growers won't be so fast to conspire with the Teamsters when their UFW contracts expire. To be stuck with a worthless crop is a fate even worse then negotiating with a worker-controlled union...