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 ...

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.

In 1965, Filipino-American labor organizer Larry Itliong helped lead the Delano grape strike and boycott for better wages and working conditions. It was the birth of the farmworkers labor movement ...

Whether the three-month-old strike, staged to get union recognition for grape pickers, is the Christian churches’ business has become a dominant issue around Delano. Protagonist for involvement ...

Chávez famously was part of the 1965 grape strike in Delano ... leading a 300-mile march from Delano to Sacramento, fasting, as well as a grape boycott — which farmworkers and consumers ...

home of the historic Delano Grape Strike that began the struggle of the United Farm Workers. The Real News reports from the ground, speaking with union and community leaders who say workers are ...

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.

Nov. 20 (UPI) --The U.S. Labor Department inducted three Filipino labor leaders, who led California's Delano Grape Strike in 1965 to win higher wages and better working conditions for farmworkers ...

His father Larry Itliong was a migrant farmworker and a leader of the Delano Grape Strike. As a kid, Johnny spent his days lending a hand to his father and the men who worked in the fields.