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In the late ‘50s he met Dolores Huerta, who shared an interest in organizing farm workers. Huerta was born in Dawson, New Mexico, and left for Stockton, California, with her mother and siblings ...
The workers who participated in the bracero program have generated significant local and international struggles challenging the U.S. government and Mexican government to identify and return 10 percent mandatory deductions taken from their pay, from 1942 to 1948, for savings accounts that they were legally guaranteed to receive upon their ...
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Farm labourer Sandra Noemi Bucu Saz is happy. She's recently returned to Guatemala in Central America from the US, where she was picking strawberries in California. "They paid us $19 (£15.60) an ...
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, Dolores Huerta, and Gilbert Padilla and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) led by organizer Larry Itliong.
The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1994. ISBN 0-292-70796-7 "Bishops in Ohio Support Boycott of Campbell." Associated Press. June 18, 1985. Carmen, Barbara. "Organizer of Union for Migrant Workers Takes on Pickle Giant." Columbus Dispatch. January 24, 1999. Collins, Kristin. "Farm union targets RJR."
About 42% of U.S. farm workers are undocumented, and Trump's plan to deport millions of migrants could uproot the industry's workforce.
In 1993, Martinez was a pallbearer of Cesar Chavez' casket for his "final march" of 40 acres on the land where Chavez hosted his first fast that brought the farm workers movement national attention. In 2002, Martinez worked with the Racine Unified School District to found the Cesar Chavez School of Excellence, a public charter school.