Let Them Eat Grapes.The United Farm Workers The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) is a labor union that evolved from unions founded in 1962 by César Chávez, Philip Vera Cruz, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong. This union changed from a workers' rights organization that helped workers get unemployment insurance to that of union has called off its 16-year boycott of California table grapes, citing recent organizing and contract victories as the reason. UFW UFW United Farm Workers (union) UFW United Factory Warehouse president Arturo Rodriguez announced that "the UFW signed its first agreement in 27 years with Gallo, covering 450 vineyard workers in Sonoma County." Other recent victories include contracts with the largest winery win·er·y n. pl. win·er·ies An establishment at which wine is made. Noun 1. winery - distillery where wine is made wine maker in Washington state and the biggest mushroom producer in Florida. Check out the UFW's "label of the month" to see a current list of products under union contracts at www.ufw.org/ulmth.htm. Say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." --Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. Fellowships are also awarded. . She died December 3, 2000. |
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