United Farm Workers | The Grape Strike | 2
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The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
In august 1966 chávez and itlion agreed to merge their organizations to form a new union the united farm workers organizing committee like a walk you would have the money and support of the afl cio to back it up. delores huerta became the union's boycott director in 13 years of working together chávez had come to rely on her as his most trusted advisor she developed a nationwide boycott plan targeting ten cities that collectively accounted for half of all sales of california grapes. In 1968 chávez found himself at the head of a fully fledged labor union one large enough to counter the power of de jorgio and the teamsters by staging
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