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...most important reason for Chavez's lack of support is that the workers did not want to allow anyone to gain absolute power over their jobs. Under the contracts Chavez sought, the growers would not be able to hire the workers. A grower would have to ask the UFW to send him men when he needed them and the UFW would then assign workers...
...union they didn't want to join. The strategy was to fool consumers into boycotting grapes and lettuce by misrepresenting the conditions of the farmworkers. The boycott would then force growers to sign with Chavez, and if the farmworkers wanted to work, they would have to join the UFW...
...strategy eventually brought limited success. In the summer of 1970, 26 major grape growers signed contracts with Chavez. They were signed only by Chavez and the growers but they made the workers members of the UFW...
...they wanted to work, the workers had to accept UFW membership because the growers could no longer hire them. Chavez also now had the power to determine which of these workers would work and when. As a result, the growers got an end to the boycott, Chavez got the workers, and the workers got screwed...
...major violation of the civil rights of thousands of farmworkers. The common justice of the idea that no contract signed between two parties shall be binding on a third was disregarded. Without an election, without their consent, and without their signatures, the farmworkers found themselves paying dues to the UFW...