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The Delano grape strike was a labor strike organized by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), a predominantly Filipino and AFL-CIO-sponsored labor organization, against table grape growers in Delano, California to fight against the exploitation of farm workers.
The Forty Acres is best known as the workplace of labor activist Cesar Chavez during the Delano grape strike of the 1960s. Chavez first drew national attention to the complex in 1968, when he conducted a public fast at the site. [ 3 ]
By 1969, the UFW was on the verge of winning the four-year-old Delano grape strike. [11] But as the Delano grape strike seemed to be ending, an attempt by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to organize farm laborers in the Salinas Valley in California led to the costly "Salad Bowl strike."
A strike against the grape growers in Delano, California, that began in 1965 represented a major victory. It lasted for five years. and workers endured a 340-mile march from Delano to Sacramento ...
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.
Californians are honoring the influential Filipino American labor rights leader Larry Itliong, who organized strikes and built coalitions between farmworkers alongside César Chávez and Dolores ...
In 1966, as the Delano strike was underway, Hartmire told the Los Angeles Times the ministry had long helped farmworkers with resources but had failed to "attack root causes" of their suffering.
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 co-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 ...