Cesar E. Chavez

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child and had encountered the reality of being poor, as well as a member of a discriminated class of people (Altman, p.87). The land shaped the thinking and emotional being of Cesar Chavez. The reality of hard work in the hot fields at low wages, the planting, hoeing and harvesting of the agricultural produce that was the foundation of a multi-billion food chain industry impressed Cesar. He discovered his place in the whole enterprise and that the workers were merely expendables obtained at the lowest price with the least personal protection and job benefits. Cesar Chavez had realized the workers were too weak to fight the agricultural business that controlled public, political enforcing and policing agencies. The powerful growers and corporations lacked the consciousness of putting into practice the fair integration of workers as partners in the agricultural enterprise. The situation of the migrant workers guided Chavez’s actions and provided him with the emotional motivation ...

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grape growers. California wine grape growers accepted the UFWOC as the collective bargaining agent for grape pickers, but table grape growers did not. With Cesar Chavez to represent them the California grape pickers began to demand higher wages and better working conditions. When the table grape growers did not listen to the union’s demands, the grape pickers went on strike. The workers left the fields and the unharvested grapes began to rot on the vines. The growers hired illegal workers and brought in strikebreakers and thugs to beat-up the strikers. Union members and Chavez were jailed repeatedly (Project p.2). Chavez and NFWA encouraged all Americans in a nation-wide ...

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