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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.
Cesario Estrada Chavez (/ ˈ tʃ ɑː v ɛ z /; Spanish:; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and lesser known Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union.
The Cesar Chavez Committee of Tarrant County, in partnership with LULAC Council 4743 and LULAC Council 4568, will have a birthday celebration for César Chávez and Dolores Huerta at 11 a.m. April ...
English: The flag of the United Farm Workers union, containing the UFW Eagle on a white disc on a red field. Date Original: 1962; vectorization: 30 September 2018
In 1962, he helped found the National Farm Workers Association — known today, after mergers, as the United Farm Workers union — in Delano, California, and spent the following decades ...
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 ...
Richard Chavez, César Chávez's brother, originally designed the black Aztec eagle insignia that became the symbol of the National Farm Workers Association and the UFW. [ 6 ] In 2022, San Jose State students and faculty embedded the Arch of Dignity, Equality, and Justice into their Public Art as Resistance project.
"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 phrase in 1972 during César Chávez 's 25-day fast in Phoenix, Arizona .