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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, Dolores Huerta, and Gilbert Padilla and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) led by organizer Larry Itliong.
The State Senate narrowly approved a bill opposed by the UFW, but the Assembly killed the measure. [50] Based on the support for the growers in the State Senate, the growers backed a ballot measure, Proposition 22, which would have guaranteed the right to organize but placed heavy restrictions on the right to strike, boycott, and picket. [51]
The UFW and Wonderful are locked in battle, each employing legal muscle and PR prowess, and will present their cases to the ALRB, the state agency charged with overseeing farm labor disputes and ...
The UFW was certified on March 4 as the organizing union for 640 workers at Wonderful Nurseries — North America’s largest grapevine nursery. The UFW submitted 327 valid authorization cards to ...
Nagi Daifullah came to this country from his native Yemen, looking for a better life. Yemenese farm workers are the latest group (as of 1977) to come to California and be exploited by state growers. Most of them, like Nagi, are young men in their early twenties, shy and slight of frame. Moslem, they speak no english and live in barren labor camps.
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Chavez and Padilla worked out the details with Larry Itliong to merge the groups for mutual benefit. In 1973, Padilla was elected secretary-treasurer of the newly-formed UFW. [4] However, Chavez became increasingly paranoid and controlling and began to purge the union of those who he felt were Communists or secretly plotted against him.
Read more:California’s wealthiest farm family — and scores of their workers — accuse UFW of bait and trick Today, the Wonderful Industrial Park typically builds and leases million-square ...