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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 UFW Foundation announced Friday the woman who has led the advocacy nonprofit for 18 years, Diana Tellefson Torres, is stepping down and will be succeeded by a woman who has filled in on an ...
The outcome of the fight between Wonderful Co.'s wealthy owners and California's storied farmworker union will shape the future of a divisive new process for unionizing agricultural job sites.
But the UFW was not the only union to see the end of the Delano grape strike as an opportunity. Six thousand drivers and packing workers in the Salinas Valley in California, represented by the Teamsters, struck on July 17, 1970 effectively preventing most of the nation's summer lettuce crop from reaching consumers. [12]
Officers also swarmed the fields, scooping up workers near Salinas, Fresno and Sacramento. Dolores Huerta, now 94 and one of the founders of the United Farm Workers, was then a young woman in ...
Following the Chateau Ste. Michelle campaign, Guillen remained active in the farmworker labor movement and the United Farm Workers (UFW Washington voted to affiliate with the national organization in 1994). She was sent to Salinas, California to help organize strawberry pickers, and she later held the position of national vice president for the ...
El Teatro Campesino (Spanish for "The Farmworker's Theater") is a Chicano theatre company in California.Performing in both English and Spanish, El Teatro Campesino was founded in 1965 as the cultural arm of the United Farm Workers and the Chicano Movement with the "full support of César Chávez."
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