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...they do it? "With the most sweeping strikebreaking operation in California farm labor history," Chavez answers. Chavez says agricultural strikes are different than strikes in industry. Even though the UFW has signed many contract with growers and despite the passage of California's landmark 1975 collective bargaining law for farm workers, organizing farm labor is still almost as difficult...
...come to be termed the "Late Sixties." Many movements arose (and subsequently declined) during that era, but one movement which rose up on the crest of the Civil Rights Movement continues to push forward, and remarkably has kept all of its original principles intact. The United Farm Workers' (UFW) Union, led by Cesar Chavez, has weathered 17 years of struggle with California agribusiness and since 1962, has become a viable instrument in representing and protecting farm labor...
Throughout the history of the UFW, many tactics have been employed in order to bring its message across not only to U.S. agri-business, but also to the American consumer, the UFW's most consistent ally. Strikes, picket lines, legislative campaigns, and voter registration drives have been among the tactics used, but these have been secondary only to the UFW's most powerful weapon: the consumer boycott...
Thus, once again, the UFW' is back in town, and is asking consumers to boycott yet another brand name: Red Coach Lettuce. Why are the farm workers asking their friends to answer yet another call for support? "Because what began as a traditional economic dispute between labor and management has turned into another attempt by growers to crush the union." UFW President Cesar Chavez says. "Because agribusiness has not really accepted the idea of free collective bargaining. Because many growers still hope to destroy the UFW...
...Striking UFW workers have lived on union funds since they walked out, but the UFW treasury is nearly depleted. Delgado said...