That’s the one you know, but there have been others. There is the Delano Grape Strike and Boycott led by César Chávez that resulted in the creation of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union.

Picketing was in protest over the arrest of 29 persons at a Delano, California ... But they continued to strike. They organized a grape boycott across the country, First against one company ...

Farmworkers in San Luis remember the legacy of Cesar Chávez. In 2000, Congress made March 31 the commemoration date for the civil rights leader.

As NCR commits to cover the response of the church to the onslaught of cruelty coming from the Trump administration, this ...

So it has not been invented yet, and neither has a grape-picking machine ... In September, 1965, they called a general strike in Delano, California, against 38 major growers.

The name César Chávez is extra special to Kern County, as the years-long grape strike, for which Chávez is often remembered, happened right here in Delano.

A Labor Day story of migrant farmworker Larry Itliong’s fight for better conditions In 1965, Filipino-American labor organizer Larry Itliong helped lead the Delano grape strike and boycott for ...

She organized the 500 workers at the Delano farm to strike with the UFW’s support ... and I know the fight is not about the grapes or the lettuce, but it’s about the people,” said Bonta ...

Jose Luis Chavez remembers watching the Delano Grape Strike. He was a young man living in Las Colonias, then a predominantly Latino neighborhood in Grand Junction. Jose Chavez, who once worked as ...

Cesar Chávez helped inspire the farmworker labor rights movement with a strike and boycott of grapes in Delano, California, in 1965. Since then, the United Farm Workers has continued its work.