United Farm Workers Organizers List Gains
The United Farm Workers has signed 10,000 new members this year and won seven union representation elections, organizers said at the union’s 12th national convention, the first since the death of founder Cesar Chavez.
“(There is) a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of commitment to carry on Cesar’s work,” union President Arturo Rodriguez said of the 500 delegates who attended the convention Saturday and Sunday.
Federal housing chief Henry G. Cisneros told the delegates that federal funding will help build new housing for farm workers.
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