That's why I support the call to make Cesar Chavez's birthday a national holiday. It's time to recognize the contributions of this American icon to the ongoing efforts to perfect our union." However, ...

The legacy of immigrant labor rights activist César Chávez is remembered today as the 11th annual César Chávez Day; UFW to ...

One, to honor Cesar Chavez and his legacy. But number two is to recognize the workers, the immigrant workers, that contribute ...

César Chávez co-founded the United Farm Workers of America in 1962, the first agricultural labor union in the nation ... Threatening Parks and Monuments Oct 2019 Cesar E. Chavez National Monument, ...

David Huerta, SEIU USWW California president, a statewide union representing 50,000 members, said people from Sacramento, San Jose, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County came to Delano not ...

Neither was the name Cesar Chavez ... of Shame.” Chavez went further. He harnessed public outrage to achieve unprecedented gains for farmworkers. At the height of his union’s strength ...

So when Harry Rubenstein, a curator at the National Museum of American History, asked the family of Cesar Chavez a few months after the union leader’s death at age 66 on April 23, 1993 ...

Then he spent a day with Cesar Chavez ... to form a new union that since 1971 has been known as the United Farm Workers of America (U.F.W.). Robert Kennedy's first trip to see Chavez in Delano ...

Books by Miriam Pawel — “The Crusades of Cesar Chavez” and “The Union of Their Dreams” — provide some insight into the man whose name graces streets, schools, parks and a U.S. Naval ...