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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.
Meanwhile, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), a Filipino farm worker organization, clashed with the NWFA, whose farm laborer goals were seen as intruding upon their territory. Chavez and Padilla worked out the details with Larry Itliong to merge the groups for mutual benefit. In 1973, Padilla was elected secretary-treasurer ...
The goal was to address "the basic failing of labor law both at the federal and state level, which is delay," said William B. Gould IV, emeritus professor of law at Stanford and a former chairman ...
Dolores Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers ...
The victory comes less than six months after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law to expand unionization rights of farmworkers.
The battle between a unit of the Wonderful Co. — one of the state's most well-known farm companies that grows pistachios, pomegranates and citrus — and United Farm Workers — the country's ...
The Salad Bowl strike [1] was a series of strikes, mass pickets, boycotts and secondary boycotts that began on August 23, 1970 and led to the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history. [2] The strike was led by the United Farm Workers against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
One of his main goals once he became president earlier this year was to honor Itliong. ... "The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) was formed in 1966 as a collaboration between the ...