By: This Day in Labor History: A Digest - Lawyers, Guns & Money : Lawyers,...
[...] July 6, 1892–The Homestead Strike July 12, 1917–The Bisbee Deportation July 14, 1877–The Great Railroad Strike September 9, 1739–The Stono Rebellion September 17, 1989–The Pittston Strike October...
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What is rarely recognized about the California farmworkers’ strikes was that the government used the military to subvert the strike, albeit in a backhanded way. Even when I was in a unit that was part...
View ArticleBy: bph
I am currently reading The King of California which has some great history of the farm labor movement and explains why the landowners were able to get farm workers to be exempt from so many labor laws....
View ArticleBy: JoyfulA
What about “short-handled hoes” in the beginning and “long-handled hoes” at the end? I ache with just the thought of a short-handled hoe. Long-handled hoe? Much like a broom, rake, mop.
View ArticleBy: JoyfulA
I remember the end of the boycott. I bought a lot of grapes, ate way too many of them, and had hives all over. But not much later, all the table grapes seemed to originate in Chile. Was this national...
View ArticleBy: greylocks
I rarely have anything informed to say about these posts, but I do read them. More like this please.
View ArticleBy: Happy Jack
Unless Baldemar Velasquez has moved recently, FLOC is based in Ohio, not North Carolina.
View ArticleBy: Erik Loomis
You might be right there–I knew their work in NC well when I lived in Tennessee and just assumed they were based there.
View ArticleBy: Bruce Vail
Hey Eric, I don’t that is the union’s official flag anymore. They dropped out of the AFL-CIO about 2006.
View ArticleBy: Halloween Jack
I hope that they changed other elements of the flag’s design as well. It’s a bit, ah, reminiscent.
View ArticleBy: This Day in Labor History: April 11, 1986 - Lawyers, Guns & Money :...
[…] national event in order to gain public attention for their cause. This was not that different from how Cesar Chavez used white supporters around the nation to bring publicity to the cause of farm...
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[…] July 29, 1970: United Farm Workers force growers into the first union contract in the history of California agricul… […]
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[…] July 1970: United Farm Workers force growers into the first union contract in the history of California agricul… […]
View ArticleBy: Brett
The band started talking about the death of Chavez and then they realized that everyone in the audience thought they were talking about the boxer Julio Cesar Chavez. That may have inspired a Simpsons...
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[…] July 1970: United Farm Workers force growers into the first union contract in the history of California agricul…. […]
View ArticleBy: Erik Loomis
You might be right there–I knew their work in NC well when I lived in Tennessee and just assumed they were based there.
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