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National Farmers Union (officially Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America) is a national federation of state Farmers Union organizations in the United States. The organization was founded in 1902 in Point, Texas , and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. .
Harry Leland Mitchell (June 14, 1906 – January 8, 1989) was an American union leader. He was a cofounder and leader of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in 1934, and led its successor unions, for most of the next twenty-six years.
The Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU), later known as the National Farm Labor Union, the National Agricultural Workers Union, and the Agricultural and Allied Workers Union, was founded as a civil farmer's union to organize tenant farmers in the Southern United States.
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.
Farmers and their vehicles gathered at Selby Livestock Auction Mart and paraded around the town as part of a nationwide day of action to show solidarity across the farming community.
Union Grange Hall in Slatersville, Rhode Island, now a community center belonging to the North Smithfield Heritage Association. As of 2024, the Grange continues to press for the causes of farmers, including issues of free trade and farm policy.
Tom Bradshaw, president of the National Farmers Union, told The Telegraph it was “imperative this framework does not further restrict farmers’ ability to produce the nation’s food”, adding ...
Farmers' protests have erupted in numerous European countries from France to Poland, exposing tensions over the impact on farming of the European Union's drive to fight climate change, rising ...