Position of seasonal immigrant workers relative to the broader U.S. These circumstances reflect both the historically marginal Nation,” he added, but are denied “the same rights that many, many American “We thought he wouldīe on the side of farmworkers,” Garcia told me. Issues,” though the UFW claimed his office expressed no such reservationsĭuring the legislative process. The farmworkers’ bill because of “various inconsistencies and procedural Providers, and film and television crews. Of labor strikes, walkouts, and aggressiveĬontract negotiations around the country, including among autoworkers, cereal It was an auspicious precursor to a month “None of them,” Garcia recalled, “had paidĪs the month waned, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed As they walked, nonunionized laborers in the area caught wind To vote by mail in union elections, effectively making it easier for them to To the California statehouse in support of a bill that would allow farmworkers Along with fellow United Farm Workers members, he began a 260-mile march This September, Guillermo Garcia embarked on a secular

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