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	UFW: The Official Web Page of the United Farm Workers of America
		'This Tragedy Happened Because of Greed' Farm workers: UFW's founder spoke to the same issues 25 years ago as were raised by a 1999 van accident that killed 13.
		By UFW Spokesman--and longtime Cesar Chavez press secretary Marc Grossman.
		UFW's Archive: Walter Reuther Labor Library, Wayne State University
	www.ufw.org /_page.php?menu=research&inc=research_history.html (160 words)

	United Farm Workers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) is a labor union that evolved from unions founded in 1962 by César Chávez, Philip Vera Cruz, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong.
		The UFW responded with strikes, lawsuits and boycotts, including secondary boycotts in the retail grocery industry.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Farm_Workers (724 words)

	Migration News
		UFW Political Director Giev Kashkooli says that the UFW is "unusual in that we actually get paid to run campaigns." Many of the campaigns involving the UFW are managed by political consultant Richard Ross, who found in 1998 that the UFW ranked at the top of a list of organizations trusted by California Hispanics.
		In September 2002, the UFW changed Article 2 of its constitution to say "The trade jurisdiction of the union shall be all agricultural and non-agricultural workers." The UFW says that it is interested in representing farm workers and other workers employed in the food industry.
		The UFW also cited cases that it won on behalf of farm workers, from unpaid time worked in table grape harvesting to not paying workers for the time they were required to ride on buses from a central location to the fields.
	migration.ucdavis.edu /rmn/more.php?id=1105_0_3_0 (2192 words)

	KTLA The WB \| Where Los Angeles Lives \| Farmworkers Reap Little as Union Strays From Its Roots
		In 2006, the UFW does not have a single contract in the table grape vineyards of the Central Valley where the union was born.
		UFW leaders say the law is not enforced well enough to be effective in combating the power of employers, who have great control over workers' day-to-day lives.
		The UFW is an unusual union for its reliance on donations, which have grown in importance as the number of its labor contracts has declined.
	ktla.trb.com /news/local/la-me-ufw8jan08,0,2954663.story?... (5110 words)

	Decisions of Long Ago Shape the Union Today - Los Angeles Times
		And UFW officials said a school bus abandoned in a back field at union headquarters was not one of the buses used to transport boycott volunteers across the country in the 1970s, as stated in the Jan. 9 article, but was left by a peace activist who never returned to claim it.
		As the UFW board gathered in February 1977 at the Synanon campus, there was a moment of opportunity to solidify those gains.
		Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the UFW, said in an interview that Chavez's brilliance was often misunderstood, and that during the turbulent years of the late 1970s he acted to defend the movement he built when it was under attack from insiders who thought they could run the union better.
	latimes.com /news/local/la-me-history10jan10,0,3382590.story?... (1466 words)

	Farmworkers Reap Little as Union Strays From Its Roots - Los Angeles Times
		UFW officials said that a Fresno developer who partnered with Cesar Chavez to build for-profit housing donated his services and did not split the profits from the developments, as reported Jan. 9.
		The UFW undercut another union to sign up construction workers, poaching on the turf of building trade unions that once were allies.
		Scott Washburn was the last UFW organizer to work in the San Diego County camps; when he left in 1981, so did the food cooperative, armored trucks that cashed checks without charge, and doctors and English teachers who made regular visits.
	latimes.com /news/local/la-me-ufw8jan08,0,6620187.story?... (872 words)

	September 2002: UFW Marches Again - but Toward What Goal?
		At the time of Brown's signing of the 1975 bill the Cesar Chavez-led UFW was at the height of its popularity among the state's farmworkers, Latino communities, and the youth in general-who were radicalizing under the impact of the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements.
		One ruse after another was employed to the UFW's disadvantage-from the state legislature's failure to fund the ALRB, to providing insufficient staff to hold elections, to the ALRB recognizing employer-funded and organized company unions to challenge the UFW for bargaining rights.
		For the severely weakened UFW, and in the context of a general labor misleadership with no social vision other than to make capitalism more profitable for the boss class, the UFW is compelled to seek solace in the decisions of state-appointed arbitrators whose employment is contingent on their adherence to ruling-class politicians.
	www.socialistaction.org /news/200209/ufw.html (1552 words)

	BNY-UFW
		What marked the UFW as distinctive from its white-collar competitors was its willingness to actively pursue grievances as fully as possible, whereas the NFFE and AFGE existed primarily as lobbying organizations exercising their power mostly in Congress.
		In February UFW organizers distributed flyers outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard's gates, and in late March its newspaper announced the chartering of local 94 at the Washington Navy Yard, and in September, local 118 in the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
		The handling of grievances by the UFW and the IUMSWA was somewhat different from that of the AFL unions in that they chose to pursue their complaints using the traditional hierarchical progression rather than pursuing them simultaneously at the local and Departmental level as was common with their rivals.
	www.columbia.edu /~jrs9/BNY-UFW.html (2933 words)

	UFW Union Calls for National Boycott of Gallo Wine
		Boycotts are a tactic long associated with the UFW, but the current one will differ significantly from the legendary campaigns of the 1960s and '70s, which popularized the cause of farmworkers and helped pressure dozens of growers to sign union contracts.
		UFW officials say that bolsters their contention that the company is singling out farmworkers.
		UFW officials charge that Gallo is deliberately increasing the number of contract workers to force the union out, an assertion Gallo denies.
	www.organicconsumers.org /OFGU/wine061605.cfm (1344 words)

	KTLA The WB \| Where Los Angeles Lives \| Former Chavez Ally Took His Own Path
		Instead, he is the preeminent example of a generation of activists nurtured by the UFW and its founders.
		When Medina left the UFW in the summer of 1978, his departure was as unexplained as it was sudden.
		At the UFW's 40th reunion in Delano this summer, while most speakers addressed the crowd of former boycott volunteers and strikers in English, Medina spoke in Spanish, the language of the workers whose accomplishments he was celebrating.
	ktla.trb.com /news/la-me-medina11jan11,0,5024072.story?coll=ktla-news-1 (3784 words)

	Center for Immigration Studies
		The ALRA and UFW were expected to usher in a new era for farm labor, at least in the factories in the fields that hired hundreds of seasonal workers to harvest fruits and vegetables.
		The UFW was well aware that rising illegal immigration was a threat, and in 1981 testified in favor of employer sanctions and ample funds to enforce them.
		The UFW was engaged in a new grape boycott, the "wrath of grapes" direct-mail campaign, that urged consumers not to buy grapes because they contained traces of "dangerous pesticides," while California growers were more concerned about lingering union battles than the debate in Washington over employer sanctions.
	www.cis.org /articles/2004/back104.html (3750 words)

	Migration News
		The office where he ran the UFW for the last 20 years of his life, in the northwest corner of the center building, is restored and displayed just as he left it, as if frozen in time.
		One of the UFW's major accomplishments, the Sumayas said, was that it encouraged workers to educate themselves and fight for their rights.
		Ironically, it was the UFW that pushed for contractors to be excluded from the act, arguing unions could not create stable relationships with contractors because growers ultimately set wages and working conditions.
	www.migration.ucdavis.edu /rmn/more.php?id=854_0_8_0 (7870 words)

	UFW Ends Table Grape Boycott - But The Struggle Continues
		A second boycott was called in 1973, when the UFW lost most of its labor agreements to the Teamsters Union.
		The UFW is requesting that supporters help Pictsweet workers obtain a UFW contract by asking Pizza Hut not to purchase from Pictsweet.
		Although it called off the table grape boycott, the UFW emphasized the move should not be seen as an endorsement to buy table grapes.
	www.mecgrassroots.org /NEWSL/ISS37/37.11ufw.html (870 words)

	Marc Cooper » Blog Archive » UFW Moves to Sue Its Critics: Me! [Updated]
		My reportage focused, with open sympathy, on the deplorable plight of average California farm workers and, while the UFW is hardly the cause of their predicament, the union nevertheless shares some of the responsibility for the current human disaster in our fields.
		The UFW is free to dissent from that notion.
		The UFW forgot to mention that the t-shirts were made in Saipan by slave laborers—talk about a country that could use a union.
	marccooper.com /ufw-moves-to-sue-its-critics-me (4489 words)

	2004 Event Honorees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 2001, the UFW signed a contract protecting the Ventura County field laborers at Coastal Berry Co., the largest U.S. employer of strawberry workers.
		And the UFW continues pushing legislation in both houses of Congress that would allow undocumented farm workers and their family members to earn legal status by working in agriculture.
		The UFW continued to organize not only the grape workers but the workers in the vegetable industry as well until violence erupted and farm workers were being killed.
	www.chci.org /events/2004/gala_2004_honor.htm (2377 words)

	MetroActive News & Issues \| Anti-UFW Groups
		UFW lawyers have recently uncovered evidence in the form of bank records and canceled checks directly linking growers to a previous "worker" organization, Ag Workers of America (AgWA), a group that has changed its name several times but retained the same core board members.
		UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta and new president Arturo Rodriguez wrestled with the question of how to lead the 30-year-old group through changing times.
		For the past three years the UFW has called on other unions, supermarkets and social justice groups across the country to support its campaign to organize California's more than 27,000 strawberry workers, concentrating on the fertile fields of Watsonville and Salinas.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/10.15.98/farmunion1-9841.html (3335 words)

	Welcome to The Employers' Law Firm
		UFW attempted a general strike in the Salinas area today with no success.
		Reliable sources in the fields say the UFW is telling workers that they intend to target all bus stops in the Salinas area Monday morning to shut down all lettuce crews.
		UFW demonstrators blocked and boarded busses at the Foods Co. on Alisal Street in Salinas this morning.
	www.theemployerslawfirm.com /firm/alrb.php (831 words)

	Truthdig - Reports - United Farm Workers Strike Back at the L.A. Times
		Nevertheless, UFW officials tried to take the Times staffers and executives through “what we thought were the deep journalistic flaws in the pieces,” according to Rivers, “and also a number of cases where charges were leveled or stories told about farmworkers--and they were not asked to give their side of the story.”
		I hope the leaders of the UFW are taking walks in those same hills, reflecting, and figuring out what they can do not simply to cosmetically repair their image, but to emerge from this struggle a stronger, better UFW than ever before.
		The UFW exists because many people wanted to do what is right, they took time to figure out what was right and then dedicated their lives to the cause.
	www.truthdig.com /report/item/20060203_ufw_latimes (6106 words)

	Today in History: August 22
		Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, the UFW won many considerable concessions for the historically underrepresented migrant farm workers.
		In 1967, one of the first major actions taken by the UFW was to call for a boycott of table grapes, which became a nationwide boycott by 1968.
		On February 14, 1968, UFW President Cesar Chavez began the first of many fasts in protest of the treatment of farm workers.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/aug22.html (1311 words)

	Marc Cooper » Blog Archive » Medina on UFW: No Regrets
		The UFW joined with the SEIU last year in forming the new Change To Win Coalition, though the latter did not take the step of actually leaving the AFL-CIO as Medina's union did.
		And the UFW website didn’t refute any of the quotes that were presented by former staff, instead they only focused on their current works and did not, yet, address the issues of the past.
		Like the UFW, the New Pacifica LSBs and PNB has very little to say about the past….they are even trying to bury our historical corporate documents, and they are not apologizing to those they have demonized and hurt.
	marccooper.com /medina-on-ufw-no-regrets (5852 words)

	César E. Chávez Chronology
		In response to a UFW boycott, other grape growers allow Giumarra to use their labels.
		The UFW wins the majority of the elections in which it participates.
		UFW membership rises from around 20,000 in 1993 to more than 27,000.
	www.colapublib.org /chavez/chronology.htm (3397 words)

	D:\Data\Home Pages\California Home Page\News0005.htm
		The UFW and the Coastal Berry of California Farm Workers Committee both claimed victory when each was certified by the state farm-labor board May 4 to represent employees at one of two Coastal Berry Company locations.
		The UFW was trying to spark a resurgence reminiscent of the mid-1970s and early 1980s, when tens of thousands of workers had joined it.
		The UFW is negotiating with Gallo of Sonoma, the county's largest wine grape producer.
	www.fels.org /news/news0005.htm (3026 words)

	UFW vs IUMSWA
		The union leaders took the opportunity to stress that organized labor was loyal to the country and that it was the PNY, not the UFW, that had acted in an “un-American” manner by suspending the men solely because of their active campaign to raise wages.
		Eleanor Nelson, the UFW vice-president, attempted to arrange conferences to discuss the military suspensions and requested a full disclosure of charges and evidence, an impartial board, the right for the suspended workers to stay on the job until a guilty verdict was delivered, and their right to representation.
		Without potential lures outside of its original jurisdiction the UFW locals settled into their navy yard niches, much like the AFL unions had done, exploiting what grievances fell their way during the war but unable to apply the political muscle the trade unions could in order to grow.
	www.columbia.edu /~jrs9/BNY-UFW-IUMSWA.html (4707 words)

	A Company Union Battles the UFW in Watsonville
		The election was immediately denounced as fraudulent by the UFW and many state legislators, including Hilda Solis, chair of the state senate's subcommittee on labor.
		The UFW filed objections with the ALRB, charging that balloting was conducted in a climate of violence and intimidation, that the board had permitted a company union to file a petition, and that 162 workers in Oxnard, though eligible to vote, had not even been notified that the election was taking place.
		While the UFW has attacked his inaction in disciplining those responsible for violence, he is also being sued by the powerful Western Growers Association, who accuse him of illegally favoring the UFW.
	dbacon.igc.org /FarmWork/01coast.html (2818 words)

	Metroactive News & Issues \| UFW
		Locally, the UFW is negotiating contracts with two major Sonoma County employers, Gallo of Sonoma and the Redwood Empire lumber company.
		Meanwhile, on the national front, UFW president Arturo Rodriguez has called on members of the House and the Senate to pass the AgJobs bill, which will grant permanent citizenship to undocumented workers who stay in the country and continue to work in agriculture.
		The UFW's struggle to unionize Gallo of Sonoma has been simmering for more than a decade, after wine-grape workers voted for UFW representation in 1994.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/03.31.04/ufw-0414.html (828 words)

	UFW Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Welcome to the one and only UFW store!
		From our latest buttons and t-shirts to rare collectable memorabilia, this is where you'll find anything and everything UFW.
		As part of the United Farm Workers of America, the proceeds from every sale go directly to our organizing efforts in the fields.
	www.ufwstore.com (74 words)

	UFW Collections
		Files focus primarily on the UFW in Milwaukee during the mid-1970s.
		Organizer and director of the UFW field office in Calexico, California, from mid- 1970s to 1977, and member of the National Executive Board.
		Included are cassette tapes of interviews with farm workers, UFW organizers, Cesar Chavez, and Teamster officials.
	www.reuther.wayne.edu /use/ufwguide.html (1554 words)

	UFW Store - Holiday Clearance Sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A collection of songs from the UFW's early years, sung on picket lines, strikes, and demonstrations, this is the first tape recorded by Los Lobos.
		These UFW hats have you covered from the golf course to the picket line, from the senior center to the school bus!
		UFW awareness wristbands are available in quantities of two or more or big bags for your whole family, team, classroom or congregation.
	www.ufwstore.com /decsale.html (652 words)

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