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What's At Stake: Support Workers' Rights: Sign United Farm Workers Petition

July 1994—Wine-grape workers at Gallo of Sonoma voted overwhelmingly for the UFW in a state-supervised secret-ballot election.
Gallo workers hired directly by the company won complete family medical, dental and vision benefits, eight paid holidays a year and paid vacations.
Top company officials, including Matt Gallo, promising better pay and other benefits to workers in exchange for ousting the UFW.

http://ga1.org/campaign/galloworkers_petition/explanation (677 words)



COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN GENERAL VINEYARD SERVICES, INC. AND UNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO, ...

Because of the nature of the Company's business and agricultural practices, it is necessary to maintain supervisors and foremen on the Company payroll throughout the year.
The numbers of workers receiving such training will be balanced toward those the Company may reasonably expect to utilize in future vacancies.
The Company will be the sole judge of the worker's qualifications and ability to perform the work required in the vacant, new or reclassified job.

http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/ufw/generalvineyard.html (10930 words)



Truthdig - Reports - United Farm Workers Strike Back at the L.A. Times

The Farm Workers representatives replied that the paper had a obligation to address not only the factual errors but the larger issues of fairness and balance in its reporting.
(2) Workers at 32 companies voted for the UFW in secret-ballot elections since the mid-1990s.
Given these conditions, it is understandable why the UFW has had to develop other non-profit, independently-run entities in order to sustain and institutionalize its efforts.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060203_ufw_latimes (6213 words)



Christian Century: Picking a protest: mushroom workers organize - the United Farm Workers organization is asking that ...

According to Curiel, this prepared the way for more than 60 workers to sue the company for almost two years of back pay and reinstatement in their jobs.
With the help of labor unions and the NFWM, the UFW will intensify its pressure on Bruno's and Publix to remove the Prime brand in the coming months.
Many complaints come from workers about poor pay, lack of sick leave and unaffordable health insurance.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n7_v115/ai_20412564 (1202 words)



Daily Blog: The United Farm Workers

A 2003 UFW-sponsored state measure offering incentives for growers to provide health benefits for their farm workers nearly passed the Legislature.
especially when the critic clearly is sympathetic the goals of unionism of the interest of the workers.
I could only find records of hearings on unfair labor practice complaints and I could not find a list of elections held, so there may be election activity that I did not see.

http://workinglife.typepad.com/daily_blog/2006/01/the_united_farm.html (7286 words)



U.S. Catholic Bishops - Social Development & World Peace

He condemned the fact that most farm workers were not covered by national labor laws, including the minimum wage and unemployment insurance.
One bright spot was the recent California legislation that requires mandatory arbitration so that workers who do organize can get a contract.
However, even when workers are organized, their employers might refuse to negotiate a contract with the new union.

http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/national/ld03g.htm (1184 words)



United Farm Workers of America

Well researched story of the early struggles of California farm workers and the default by the Roosevelt administration and the New Deal.
New York: National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, 1963.
From the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, includes statistics and labor laws.

http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org/ufw.html (808 words)



United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez issued the following

Workers in asking Congress for an amnesty provision such as was enacted
foreign workers under the federal government's existing H-2A program.
Before considering any guest worker scheme--and the Graham-Smith bills

http://www.crlaf.org/ufw1814.htm (480 words)



Farm Workers

          Because the corporation which owns Pictsweet, United Foods, Inc., went private in 1999, their annual gross revenue for 2001 is unavailable.
          In September 2000, the United Farm Workers initiated a boycott of Pictsweet mushrooms which has steadily amassed a following from such retail chains as Vons, Safeway and Ralph's.
The United Farm Workers maintain that the management at Pictsweet has engaged in unfair labor practices as defined by the Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, such as laying off and reducing work hours for workers without notifying United Farm Workers, their bargaining representative.

http://www.change-links.org/leahwells.htm (798 words)



Boycott Gallo Wine : SF Bay Area Indymedia

But they have a social contract—with all the workers whose labor produces their wine and with the public whose patronage sustains their profits.
The Gallos deny the overwhelming majority of their workers health coverage, paid holidays and vacations, job security, and grievance rights.
When Gallo farm workers in Sonoma County voted overwhelmingly for the UFW in 1994, all of them were full-time workers with benefits.

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1750716.php (872 words)



AFSCME Resolution: Support for United Farm Workers

Allow free and fair elections among farm workers, enabling them to decide whether or not they desire union representation, and if so, guarantee good-faith negotiations with workers on collective bargaining agreements; and
That AFSCME and its affiliates work to end the purchase of California State table grapes in all state, county and municipal institutions, through political action or collective bargaining where appropriate.
Since the 1960s the United Farm Workers of America has helped farm workers and consumers win protection from dangerous pesticides such as DDT, Aldrin, and Dieldrin before the federal government took any such appropriate measures; and

http://www.afscme.org/about/resolute/1988/r28-174.htm (374 words)



MetroActive News & Issues United Farm Workers

Nationwide, HERE has been winning contracts and benefits in recent years for low-paid workers in the service economy.
A free and fair election can't take place unless the growers agree to that."
Organizing workers as different as janitors, field workers and graduate students may strike the casual observer as an odd combination, but such unions may represent the wave of the future for organized labor.

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/06.25.98/ufw-9825.html (719 words)



United Farm Workers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The violence led the state in 1975 to try to find a solution for these problems by creating an administrative agency, the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, to enforce a law modeled on the National Labor Relations Act that would channel these disputes into more peaceful forms.
The NFWA and the AWOC, recognizing their common goals and methods, and realizing the strengths of coalition formation, jointly formed the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee.
On July 22nd, 2005 the UFW announced that it was joining the Change to Win Federation, a coalition of labor unions functioning as an alternative to the AFL-CIO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Farm_Workers (701 words)



NRTW: 150 Fired Berry Pickers Sue United Farm Workers Union

Shortly thereafter, UFW officials demanded that all Coastal Berry workers join the union and sign payroll deduction cards that would have allowed union officials to seize dues from their paychecks.
UFW union officials also violated the rights of employees by failing to provide workers with an independent audit of union expenditures as required by the U.S. Supreme Court's Chicago Teachers Union v.
The charges state that UFW union officials violated the rights of employees by demanding that they become full union members and pay full union dues as a condition of employment, in violation of several Foundation-won U.S. Supreme Court decisions, including CWA v.

http://www.nrtw.org/b/nr_244.htm (495 words)



United Farm Workers leave AFL-CIO - Boston.com

Now, fewer than 8 percent of private-sector workers are unionized.
The UFW, with about 27,000 members, joins the Service Employees International Union, the Teamsters, the United Food and Commercial Workers, UNITE HERE and the Carpenters in forming the dissident Change To Win Coalition.
UFW already was allied with the Change to Win unions, but sent a letter two days ago informing the AFL-CIO, a federation of more than 50 unions, of its plans to leave.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/01/12/united_farm_workers_leave_afl_cio (358 words)



Fight in the Fields - UNITED FARMWORKERS UNION PBS

The farmworkers built a network of radio stations, and created low cost housing for farmworkers.
Cesar and the UFW concentrated on educating the public on the dangers of pesticides, both to consumers and farmworkers.
The number of organizing drives and elections began to drop.

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fightfields/cesarchavez1.html (1865 words)



NFWSCHousing.org - Homepage

The loss and lack of affordable housing has lead to high rent burdens, overcrowding, and substandard housing.
The mission of the National Farm Workers Service Center, Inc. Housing and Economic Development Fund is to create and maintain healthy communities by providing quality affordable housing and social facilities, so people can live, socialize, gather and learn in a positive environment.

http://www.nfwschousing.org (79 words)



The Nineties

Workers and supporters often picketed at establishments selling Chateau Ste.
United Farm Workers of Washington State annual constitutional convention that included visitors from other labor organizations.

http://depts.washington.edu/pcls/ufw/1990s.htm (468 words)



United Farm Workers pioneer joins apple workers' hunger strike

Between 50 and 100 workers at Flat Top Orchards in Prescott have been on strike for about a month over their $6.50 hourly minimum wage.
Huerta also criticized Bush and fellow Republican Sen. Slade Gorton of Washington for their support of so-called guest-worker programs that would allow more immigrant farm workers to come to the United States on a temporary basis to work in the fields.
Huerta also called on others outside the farm worker community to consider going without food for a while.

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/2000/0916/story3.html (656 words)



Today in History: August 22

Learn, for example, about the National Labor Union and the eight-hour workday.
Through a series of dramatic moves, the UFW brought these issues to the public's attention.
José Flores, two Mexican labor camp workers during that time, discuss topics such as discrimination against Mexican workers, labor issues, and the beginnings of the effort to organize migrant farm workers into unions, among other more general topics about life in the labor camps.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/aug22.html (1311 words)



AFSCME Resolution: United Farm Workers

AFSCME has supported the United Farm Workers during this struggle through loan guarantees and other financial assistance.
Seventeen years after their contract expired, the United Farm Workers signed a new five-year contract with Bruce Church, Inc., one of the nation's largest lettuce growers, on May 29, 1996.
This agreement, ending years of boycotts, litigation and conflict, brings higher wages, a pension plan, medical coverage and health and safety protections to workers; and

http://www.afscme.org/about/resolute/1996/r32-107.htm (117 words)



KMPH - Local News - United Farm Workers Convention

Supporters of the measure are hoping the Pro-Immigration Ag Jobs Bill will get passed into legislation following next week's Labor Day holiday.
UFW members are calling on President Bush and Senate leaders to allow a floor vote on this bill.
The theme of this year's convention is to urge government representatives to pass the Ag Jobs Bill.

http://www.kmph.com/news/local/979201.html (185 words)



Crosswalk.com - United Farm Workers Join Coalition for Labor Reform

Crosswalk.com - United Farm Workers Join Coalition for Labor Reform
United Farm Workers Join Coalition for Labor Reform
By becoming the coalition's seventh member union, the UFW joins the Service Employees International Union, the Laborers' International Union of North America, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the United Food and Commercial Workers, UNITE-HERE, which represents hotel, restaurant and apparel workers, and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.

http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1341895.html (623 words)



UNITED FARM WORKERS - CANADA

While state workers will receive a paid holiday, California schoolchildren will have some work to do.
Chavez was working in the apricot orchards outside San Jose in 1952 when he became involved in community organizing.
The bill calls for students to take an hour on the morning of the holiday learning about Chavez and his legacy of nonviolence and social justice and then spend the afternoon in some form of social service.

http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/eagles/499 (537 words)



USA: United Farm Workers Appeal

Please help us build additional pressure by emailing the Gallos and letting them know consumers are watching and expecting them to genuinely bargain with the UFW.
The United Farm Workers are asking for our help in their contract negotiations with the Gallos.
New talks between the UFW and Gallo of Sonoma may occur next week.

http://www.labournet.net/world/0507/ufw1.html (258 words)



Unionwear: United Farm Workers

We custom make our products to order in quantities of 50 or more and use only the finest materials and workmanship.
International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers
UFW, Farm Workers Union, Farmworkers Union, Union Farmworker, Farmworker's Union, Farmworker Union, U.F.W., Union Farmworkers, United Farm Workers

http://www.unionwear.com/logosearch.asp?union=FARMWORKERS (348 words)



UFW Store

Plus, every item we sell is satisfaction guaranteed!
Welcome to the one and only UFW store!
As part of the United Farm Workers of America, the proceeds from every sale go directly to our organizing efforts in the fields.

http://www.ufwstore.com (68 words)



United Farm Workers - dKosopedia

Schenley and DiGiorgio had union contracts with workers in many other parts of their business.
The Bracero program, an informal arrangement between the United States and Mexican governments, became Public Law 78 in 1951.
One had been formed in 1959 by the AFL-CIO, called the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee.

http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/United_Farm_Workers (1875 words)



A Demographic and Employment Profile of United States Farm Workers

Fifty-three percent of all respondents were not authorized to work in the United States.
The definition of “migrant” varies among the multitude of federal government agencies and programs that provide services to migrant and seasonal farm workers. In the NAWS, migrants are defined as persons who travel at least 75 miles during a 12-month period to obtain a farm job.
NAWS interviewers ask the month and year each foreign-born crop worker first entered the United States. While not a measure of continued residence, data from this question provide important, albeit partial, information about foreign-born workers’ migration history as well a measure of the stability of the farm labor market.

http://www.dol.gov/asp/programs/agworker/report9/chapter1.htm (431 words)



Sons of Zapata 2

Now all farm workers were united in one strong union, and the movement was gaining strength throughout the nation.
Thousands of workers began organizing and joining Unions throughout the State, and the whole labor movement was the beneficiary of this new spirit.
La Marcha was symbolic of and contributed to the ever quickening awakening of the Mexicans- Americans in Texas.

http://www.farmworkers.org/sonsofz2.html (769 words)



Handbook of Texas Online: UNITED FARM WORKERS UNION

The United Farm Workers Union was organized in Texas in 1966 as the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, a union of the National Farm Workers Association and the Filipino Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee.
In 1972 the committee received an independent charter from the AFL-CIO and became the United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO.
UFW involvement in Texas has never been as extensive as in California, where the union has won contracts and gained other benefits for its members.

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/UU/ocu2.html (607 words)



Every Worker -- Exhibitions -- Oakland Museum of California

In 1996, the UFW together with the Teamsters Union and the organizing and field services departments of the AFL-CIO began one of the most ambitious organizing drives in the country.
The documentation of farm labor is an important part of the photographic tradition in the United States.
The rise of the farm labor movement in the 1960s and 1970s has been heavily documented, but since the death of César Chávez in 1993 little attention has been paid to the continuing work of the movement.

http://www.museumca.org/exhibit/exhi_every_worker.html (655 words)



The United Farm Workers

The Federal Bureau of Investigation reports on the UFW as well as on Cesar Chavez could be included.
The reports showed the beliefs of government officials and the General American public that prevailed at the time the farm workers began organizing.
It was interesting to see that the government first thought that the organization and individuals associated with it were communists.

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~castanep/proposal.htm (830 words)



Texas Farm Workers Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article related to a United States labor union is a stub.
After returning to South Texas Orendain left the UFW to devote himself to organizing Texas agricultural workers under a separate banner much like those who founded Obreros Unidos in Wisconsin, and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee in Ohio.
With little or no funding, the union captured media attention thanks to the charismatic figure of Orendain and its high profile legislative campaign and marches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Farm_Workers_Union (496 words)



UFW: The Official Web Page of the United Farm Workers of America

UFW negotiates bi-partisan AgJobs compromise; bill now before Congress
Yesterday, Sen. Feinstein (D-CA) won approval of her amendment based on the UFW’s AgJobs bill.
Following a weekend of marches, immigration reform hits the senate floor.

http://www.ufw.org (148 words)



americas.org - United Farm Workers

Farm workers are toiling to supply food for people worldwide while putting their own lives at risk.
The UFW is also calling on lawmakers to pass AB 805, by Assemblymember Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park), UFW-sponsored legislation requiring basic steps by growers to prevent and respond to heat illness.
But the state has been dragging its heels for 15 years.

http://www.americas.org/item_20923 (449 words)



News10 Report - United Farm Workers Union Blasts New Immigration Bill

They've been called the backbone of the state's multi-billion dollars agriculture economy.
However, new legislation introduced in Congress could jeopardize efforts to make it easier for farm workers to gain legal status.
The United Farm Workers and growers worked out a compromise late last year that would allow farm workers to gain legal status after they'd performed 100 days of farm labor a year, and 360 days of farm labor over six years.

http://www.calweb.com/kxtv10/news-story/July2001/071201/UFW.htm (286 words)



United Farm Workers

Today the UFW is engaged in a another major campaign to organize the state's 20,000 strawberry pickers, and it's re-employing the organizing and support-building techniques that made it a major political force in the 1960s.
The UFW wants to avoid calling for a boycott on strawberries, but whether it does or not, it will need public support to create a climate where workers can feel safe from grower backlash if they vote to unionize.
Rodriguez has since raised union membership and led the UFW to election victories on previously nonunion ranches growing a variety of crops.

http://www.be-in.com/10/bios/ufw.html (328 words)



Letter from United Farm Workers president to UDW

With your recent organizing and election victories of the last two years, you are well on your way to building that vibrant organization that Cesar envisioned.
While humbled by Cesar's high regard for them, none of these individuals felt up to the task.
Cesar believed that unions had the capacity to not only organize these constituencies but also gave these workers a vehicle to gain the power they needed to transform their lives, from the cradle to the grave.

http://www.udwa.org/chav_let.htm (789 words)



walter p. reuther library/la causa newsletter article

The UFW's historical legacy is still an active blueprint for the organizing and bargaining activities of the 1990s.
He brought the concept of secret union elections for farm workers to the national consciousness, something most trade Unionists took for granted.
Growers refused to bargain with the UFWOC and many of them supported brutality against the strikers, often with the aid of local law enforcement.

http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/ufw-article.html (809 words)



United Farm Workers Pledge Support for Calderon

The United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO, has endorsed Tom Calderon for California Insurance Commissioner, adding to the broad base of labor and Latino groups that have filed in behind the Montebello democrat.
"With Tom Calderon at the helm of the Department of Insurance, farm workers and all consumers will have an active champion who puts their welfare first." Rodriguez said the UFW plans to be "very active" in Calderon's campaign to become the state's first Latino Insurance Commissioner.
Last year the California Legislature passed and Gov. Davis signed two UFW-sponsored bills backed by Calderon that seek to end some of the worst abuses farm workers suffer from unscrupulous growers and farm labor contractors.

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2002/01/11/17304.htm?print=1 (260 words)



Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers

By Aug. 22, 1966, when the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee was officially formed, she had quit teaching to become a lobbyist in the state capitol, persuading lawmakers to allow voting and driving tests in Spanish.
Huerta, the fledgling union's chief negotiator, won the first contracts to include health and benefit plans for farm workers.
She left that post to help form a farm workers union.

http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1380/context/archive (438 words)



United Farm Workers of America -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia

E-text of this convention, concerned with the rights of these workers and members of their families, adopted by the United Nations in New York in December 1990.
(UFW), U.S. labor union; founded 1962 as National Farm Workers Association by César Chavez; merged with AFL-CIO 1966; re-formed with current name 1971 to achieve collective-bargaining rights for U.S. farm workers; seeks to give workers dignity and improve wages and working and safety conditions of migrant farm workers; espouses nonviolence; educates members in political...
Includes biographies of Cesar Chavez and other leaders of the UFW, accounts of the rise of the UFW and its achievements, and a link to the UFW collections at the Reuther Library at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9339145 (854 words)



United Farm Workers Union: 1965 Grape Boycott Case Study

Under a US Department of Labor edict, the braceros were getting $1.40 an hour base pay, while domestic workers were receiving twenty to thirty cents an hour less, in spite of the Labor Department's stipulation that domestics were in no case to be paid less than the braceros.
The fuse was lit in the Coachella Valley south of Delano, where in the spring of 1965, Filipino grape pickers, most of whom were members of the AFL-CIO's Agricultural Workers' Organizing Committee, balked at being paid less than the braceros who worked beside them in the fields.
We Mexicans here in the United States, as well as all other farm workers, are engaged in another struggle for the freedom and dignity which poverty denies us.

http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/calheritage/UFW (586 words)



Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act

Cesar Chavez was the Founder and Director of the National Farm Workers Association, later known as the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee.
Chavez and his organization based on allegations in 1965 that he and others within the organization had communist affiliations.

http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/chavez.htm (128 words)



Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History - - United Farm Workers

In 1975 the Agricultural Labor Relations Act passed the first law to recognize the collective bargaining rights of farm workers in California.
Farm laborers allied with female consumers distinguished this campaign from previous organizing attempts.
Male laborers dominated ranch committees (union locals), but female union volunteers predominated in the campesino centers (social services offices).

http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/women/html/wm_019615_unitedfarmwo.htm (341 words)



MSN Encarta - United Farm Workers of America

United Farm Workers of America (UFW), labor union that works to increase wages, ensure job security, and improve working conditions for agricultural...
La Causa: A History of the United Farm Workers Union
MSN Encarta - United Farm Workers of America

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761586130/United_Farm_Workers_of_America.html (120 words)



United Farm Workers Joins Change to Win Camp TPMCafe

The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) announced today that it was joining the Change to Win Coalition, the new workers organization devoted to transforming the American labor movement.
One of the first big campaigns John Sweeney launched as the new head of the AFL-CIO ten years ago was support for the United Farm Workers in their campaign to organize strawberry workers in California.
If nothing else, this helps Change to Win escape the simple "six white union leaders making all the decisions" rap.

http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/7/22/194826/857 (255 words)



Homepage

This project is ongoing, the initial work has been done by Sharon Walker, Research Assistant for the HBCLS.
Michelle winery, to the current concerns of legal health protections and unionization of other farm workers.
The purpose of this project, created by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, is to share the personal stories of Farm Workers and those involved in the struggle for Farm Worker rights in

http://depts.washington.edu/pcls/ufw (272 words)



KQED Forum: United Farm Workers

Forum looks at the United Farm Workers march to Sacramento in support of SB 1736 - a bill that would ensure workers the right to binding arbitration in contract negotiations with growers.

http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R208270900 (65 words)