Learning the history of Chavez and labor-activist colleague Dolores Huerta, their lives and times — and the lives of other ...

Businesses that rely on immigrants are pushing for legislation to ensure an adequate, legal flow of laborers from abroad as ...

March 31 is Cesar Chavez Day- founder of the United Farm Workers Association. Chávez won national recognition as one of the prominent voices of immigration justice for his participation in the ...

He fought for higher pay and better working conditions for farmers by establishing the National Farm Workers Association, now the United Farm Workers of America. Chávez also led a national ...

First, during the process, farm groups ... Vegetable Growers Association filed a lawsuit that claimed the new union protections should not apply to guestworkers. “We weren’t expecting them to ...

Ag interests fear Chinese ship fees will hurt commodity exports and farm goods uncompetitive in global marketplace, David ...

where he, alongside his wife and their eight young children, launched the National Farm Workers Association ... that would eventually become the United Farm Workers union. During this recruitment ...