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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 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.
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 ...
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.
Preceding the Delano grape strike was another grape strike organized by Filipino farm workers that occurred in Coachella Valley, California on May 3, 1965. [14] [15] Because the majority of strikers were over 50 years old and did not have families of their own due to anti-miscegenation laws (first overthrown in 1949), they were willing to risk what little they had to fight for higher wages.
Labor activists Reverend Chris Hartmire (right) and Marshall Ganz during a "Yes on 14'" campaign rally in 1975. Proposition 14 was sponsored by the United Farm Workers.