Ufw boycott6/17/2023 ![]() ![]() From the beginning this would be a different kind of strike. Cesar’s union voted to join the Filipino workers’ walkouts on Mexican Independence Day, September 16, 1965. But he also knew how growers historically pitted one race against another to break field walkouts. The Filipinos asked Cesar Chavez, who led a mostly Latino farm workers union, the National Farm Workers Association, to join their strike.Ĭesar and the leaders of the NFWA believed it would be years before their fledgling union was ready for a strike. On September 8, 1965, Filipino American grape workers, members of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, walked out on strike against Delano-area table and wine grape growers protesting years of poor pay and conditions.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |