United Farm Workers
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The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers, is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. It was founded in 1966 through the merger of two workers' rights o
César Chávez speaking at the Delano UFW−United Farm Workers rally in Delano, California, June 1972
Dolores Huerta in 2016, speaking at a Hillary Clinton rally
Arturo "Artie" Rodríguez, former President of the UFW
The National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) 1965 rent strike in response to the Tulare County Housing Authority raising their rents
Delano grape strike
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The Delano grape strike was a labor strike organized by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, a predominantly Filipino and AFL-CIO-sponsored labor organization, against table grape growers in
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…as a result of a series of strikes in 1965, when the Filipino-American and Mexican-American farmworkers of the AWOC in Delano, California, initiated a grape strike, and the NFWA went on strike in support. As a result of the commonality in goals and methods, the NFWA and the AWOC formed the United Farm Workers…
César Chávez (seated) shakes hands with John Giumarra Jr. after signing an agreement to end the strike
The Forty Acres complex in Delano was made a National Landmark in 2008
Dolores Huerta holding a Huelga (strike) sign
United Farm Worker's strike in Delano