For the Record - July 1, 2016

Helen Chavez obituary: In the June 7 California section, the obituary of Helen Chavez, widow of labor leader Cesar Chavez, said that in 1978, when the couple were arrested in Yuma, Ariz., over picketing a cantaloupe field, the Teamsters were representing workers at the site. The Teamsters were not involved in the episode, said Marc Grossman, Cesar Chavez Foundation spokesman, who was with the Chavezes at the time. The Associated Press reported the Teamster connection in a June 14, 1978, article about the protest and arrests, but several other experts also now question it. The Teamsters and United Farm Workers had signed a jurisdictional agreement in 1977, making it unlikely that the two unions would have faced off in Arizona a year later.

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