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The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. It originated from the merger of two workers' rights organizations, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) led by organizer Larry Itliong.
The Panthers and United Farm Workers also acted in solidarity with each other's goals in boycotting Safeway, including during a 1973 Panthers demonstration outside an Oakland Safeway store documented by KPIX Eyewitness news, in which protestors carried signs that read "Boycott Safeway, Boycott Grapes". [16]
Preceding the Delano grape strike was another grape strike organized by Filipino farm workers that occurred in Coachella Valley, California on May 3, 1965. [14] [15] Because the majority of strikers were over 50 years old and did not have families of their own due to anti-miscegenation laws (first overthrown in 1949), they were willing to risk what little they had to fight for higher wages.
Antonio De Loera-Brust, a spokesperson with the United Farm Workers union, said these rides can be costly for farm workers. “That is a cost of the job that employers make workers bear,” he ...
A few days earlier, the United Farm Workers was officially certified for organizing 297 tomato workers — the union’s first successful election petition in the state since 2017.
United Farm Workers’ members hold banners at a press conference outside the Capitol in support of Senate Bill 1299 on Monday. In June, six farmworkers left work with permission during triple ...
The outcome of the fight between Wonderful Co.'s wealthy owners and California's storied farmworker union will shape the future of a divisive new process for unionizing agricultural job sites.
Sí se puede. "Sí Se Puede" sign at a Venezuelan sit-in. Tenerife demonstrators carrying "Sí se puede" signs. " Sí, se puede " (Spanish for "Yes, you can"; [1] pronounced [ˈsi se ˈpwe.ðe]) is the motto of the United Farm Workers of America, and has since been taken up by other activist groups. UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta created the ...