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	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 and Dolores Huerta.
		This organization eventually became the United Farm Workers and launched a boycott of table grapes that, after five years of struggle, finally won a contract with the major grape growers in California.
		The UFW responded with strikes, lawsuits and boycotts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Farm_Workers (701 words)

	Texas Farm Workers Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Texas Farm Workers Union (TFWU) was established by Antonio Orendain in August 1975, nearly ten years after he began organizing farm workers for the United Farm Workers in the Rio Grande valley of South Texas.
		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.
		Despite making the case in Texas and nationally for the rights of Texas farm workers the union never found the financial support needed to continue as a viable labor union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Texas_Farm_Workers_Union (496 words)

	Fight in the Fields - UNITED FARMWORKERS UNION \| PBS
		In 1941 the United States and Mexican government started the bracero program, which brought thousands of Mexican nationals north to work in the fields in the U.S. Often, braceros were used to undercut domestic wages and break strikes, making it almost impossible to organize.
		The contracts protected workers from exposure to the dangerous pesticides that are widely used in agriculture.
		Cesar and the UFW concentrated on educating the public on the dangers of pesticides, both to consumers and farmworkers.
	www.pbs.org /itvs/fightfields/cesarchavez1.html (1865 words)

	Sons of Zapata 2
		Now all farm workers were united in one strong union, and the movement was gaining strength throughout the nation.
		The workers decided to make a pilgrimage march, as had been done in California, to dramatize the state and nations the conditions and wages and suffering that farm workers must endure, and to rally support for the cause among other farm workers and sympathizers.
		Thousands of workers began organizing and joining Unions throughout the State, and the whole labor movement was the beneficiary of this new spirit.
	www.farmworkers.org /sonsofz2.html (769 words)

	United Farm Workers leave AFL-CIO - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The United Farm Workers union has left the AFL-CIO and will join a group of breakaway unions known as the Change to Win Coalition, in a move the UFW hopes will boost recruiting efforts, officials said Thursday.
		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.
		The farm workers union was founded by Cesar Chavez, an agricultural worker.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2006/01/12/united_farm_workers_leave_afl_cio (358 words)

	Today in History: August 22
		The UFWOC was established when two smaller organizations, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), both in the middle of strikes against certain California grape growers, merged and moved under the umbrella of the AFL-CIO.
		United States-Mexico border to protest growers' use of illegal immigrants as strike breakers.
		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.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/aug22.html (1311 words)

	United Farm Workers
		Thirty years ago the United Farm Workers changed the face of American agriculture with a nationwide grape boycott that significantly improved the lives of California's 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.
		UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta spoke at last year's ninth Be-In, and was so excited about it that the union is returning this year.
	www.be-in.com /10/bios/ufw.html (328 words)

	walter p. reuther library/la causa newsletter article
		The United Farm Workers of America is the most influential farm-labor union in America.
		While he continued the boycott against grapes and lettuce, Chavez and the UFW campaigned against the use of pesticides where farm workers labored, child labor, alien laborers, substandard housing, and one of the most hated foes of all, the back-breaking short-handled hoe.
		The UFW´s current organizing campaign focuses upon the plight of the strawberry pickers, who are fighting for better conditions in the fields and against improper use of pesticides.
	www.reuther.wayne.edu /ufw-article.html (809 words)

	U.S. Catholic Bishops - Social Development & World Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		United Farm Workers’ founder, the late Cesar Chavez, was honored for his leadership and vision by the U.S. Postal Service with a new commemorative stamp.
		And in the spring, we all watched in horror as nearly one hundred immigrant farm workers were found inside a locked tractor-trailer in the sweltering heat.
		Beyond these occasional headlines, the hardships that farm workers and their families continue to suffer are rarely on the evening news but still have a claim on our conscience.
	www.usccb.org /sdwp/national/ld03g.htm (1184 words)

	americas.org - United Farm Workers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		Farm workers are toiling to supply food for people worldwide while putting their own lives at risk.
		This United Farm Workers-supported bill would help prevent further heat-related deaths of farm workes, such as the July 28, 2004 death of table grape picker Asuncion Valdivia, 53, and the July 13, 2005 death of bell pepper worker Salud Zamudo Rodriguez, 42.
	www.americas.org /item_20923 (449 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.
		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.
		This UFW Website was created by Lynn Jones, a librarian at the Teaching Library at University of California, Berkeley, and Isaac Mankita, of the Interactive University, University of California, Berkeley.
	sunsite3.berkeley.edu /calheritage/UFW (586 words)

	Every Worker -- Exhibitions -- Oakland Museum of California
		Farm Labor and the Resurgence of the United Farm Workers
		Fifty-eight of his photographs are presented in the exhibition Every Worker is an Organizer: Farm Labor and the Resurgence of the United Farm Workers, on view at the Oakland Museum of California from March 30 to Aug. 26, 2001.
		The documentation of farm labor is an important part of the photographic tradition in the United States.
	www.museumca.org /exhibit/exhi_every_worker.html (655 words)

	MetroActive News & Issues \| United Farm Workers
		UFW organizer Alma Hernandez faxed me a copy of the flier, along with depositions from workers sympathetic to the union that described intimidation by company bosses.
		Local UFW organizers are waging a campaign to get such a neutrality agreement from Driscoll, the biggest strawberry label in the country, which is owned by a group of Watsonville growers.
		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.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/06.25.98/ufw-9825.html (719 words)

	The United Farm Workers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The UFW was created to help organize and negotiate contracts with the growers in order to provide living wages and decent work conditions for farm workers.
		Although it may seem that farm workers are in better conditions, they are still far from what decent wages, living and working conditions should be.
		Included within the painting are farm workers on the fields, a group of people picketing, an airplane spraying pesticide, farm workers’ dead bodies covered in white sheets, Cesar Chavez mouth has been formed by doves, which are symbolic of peace.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~castanep/proposal.htm (830 words)

	A Demographic and Employment Profile of United States Farm Workers
		Foreign-born workers comprised a large share of the hired crop labor force in fiscal years 2001-2002. Among all crop workers, 78 percent were born outside the United States: seventy-five percent were born in Mexico, two percent were from Central American countries, and one percent of the workers were from elsewhere (fig.
		Workers born in Mexico were from almost every state of their native country.
		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.
	www.dol.gov /asp/programs/agworker/report9/chapter1.htm (431 words)

	Letter from United Farm Workers president to UDW
		But even back then in 1962, Cesar envisioned that a farm workers union could organize and empower the people in the fields but that there needed to be a union to organize and empower our sisters and brothers in the cities.
		He believed that there were many groups of mistreated workers, farm workers in the fields and domestic workers in the cities, were the most mistreated and exploited.
		Like the UFW, UDW is still standing, still struggling and still fighting to make Cesar's twin dream of a movement for farm workers and domestic workers become a lasting and forceful reality.
	www.udwa.org /chav_let.htm (789 words)

	The Nineties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		United Farm Workers of Washington State annual constitutional convention that included visitors from other labor organizations.
		Michelle campaign in which farm workers and their families would discuss strategies.
		The United Farm Workers of Washington State logo prior to affiliation with the UFW AFL-CIO.
	depts.washington.edu /pcls/ufw/1990s.htm (468 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.
		After the melon strike in Starr County, the UFW was involved in the march of 1966 that sought to raise the hourly pay of workers to $1.25.
		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.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/UU/ocu2.html (607 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.
		That campaign was largely a failure for a range of reasons, but the defection of the UFW has got to especially hurt given the efforts Sweeney made on their behalf.
		The other irony of the move is to have the UFW and the Teamsters, once mortal enemies in the agricultural fields, teaming up in such close cooperation.
	www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/7/22/194826/857 (255 words)

	Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History - - United Farm Workers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1962 in Delano, California, César Chávez, Delores Huerta, and Helen Chávez cofounded the Farm Workers Association, the precursor to the United Farm Workers Union (UFW).
		They united exploited Mexican-heritage, Filipino, Black, and white farm workers with middle-class supporters—religious groups, students, antiwar protesters, political and civil rights activists, labor unions, environmentalists, and consumer and women's organizations.
		Experience in and exposure to the farm workers movement spurred parents and children to demand better educational opportunities and served as a training ground for many Mexican Americans to seek political empowerment and office.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/women/html/wm_019615_unitedfarmwo.htm (341 words)

	United Farm Workers pioneer joins apple workers' hunger strike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Huerta, 70, is one of the architects of the modern farm worker movement.
		Her visit Friday was the second stop in the Tri-Cities this year, and Huerta said it's evidence of the region's growing Hispanic population and the population's mounting political power.
		Fasting was a tactic Chavez used to draw attention to the plight of farm workers, and Huerta said it's an effective, nonviolent form of protest.
	www.tri-cityherald.com /news/2000/0916/story3.html (656 words)

	United Farm Workers of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Begun by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), led by Dolores Huerta and Larry Itliong, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), led by Cesar Chavez, soon joined the strike.
		By 1970 most of the table grape growers were organized and the UFW had 50,000 dues paying members.
		Farm workers' strike at the Di Giorgio farm in the San Joaquin Valley in the late 1940s.
	www.holtlaborlibrary.org /ufw.html (808 words)

	Truthdig - Reports - United Farm Workers Strike Back at the L.A. Times
		The United Farm Workers tries to see that both state and federal laws are enforced on such issues as immigration and pesticides as well as proposing its own laws on these issues.
		The fact is, thousands of farm workers benefit everyday from the United Farm Workers efforts32 election victories, dozens of news UFW contracts, with some of the largest strawberry, rose, winery, mushroom firms in California and the nation.
		The last time I checked, although a majority of the farm workers are undocumented, they are still human and breathe the same air as their employer while harvesting the food we so graciously consume.
	www.truthdig.com /report/item/20060203_ufw_latimes (6213 words)

	United Farm Workers - dKosopedia
		At one farm the boss made the workers all drink from the same cup "a beer can"in the field; at another ranch workers were forced to pay a quarter per cup.
		Workers' temporary housing was strictly segregated by race, and they paid two dollars or more per day for unheated metal shacks-often infested with mosquitoes-with no indoor plumbing or cooking facilities.
		AWOC was mostly composed of Filipinos, Chicanos, Anglos and Black workers.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/United_Farm_Workers (1875 words)

	Crosswalk.com - United Farm Workers Join Coalition for Labor Reform
		In response, coalition Chair Anna Burger said in a prepared statement that her organization "is thrilled to have the Farm Workers join our efforts to improve the lives of millions of American workers.
		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.
		While the UFW only adds about 31,000 people to the coalition's 6 million members, the union brings with it considerable credibility and emotional weight because of its well-known history, a fact that was not lost on Burger.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/1341895.html (623 words)

	Christian Century: Picking a protest: mushroom workers organize - the United Farm Workers organization is asking that ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Northern Florida the United Farm Workers are seeking a vote to allow the 600 workers at Quincy Farms, the largest mushroom producer in the Southeast, to form a union.
		About 200 of the workers, predominantly immigrants from El Salvador and Mexico, are "pickers," climbing and balancing between boxes stacked five to seven feet high to trim and pluck the mushrooms.
		Lazzarini continually characterizes the UFW as a union in decline, desperate for dues and unrepresentative of his workers.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n7_v115/ai_20412564 (1202 words)

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