Film Clips from the Farm Labor Movement - 1960s-1970s

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Center for Sacramento History

Center for Sacramento History

4 жыл бұрын

A Staff Pick from Film & Video Specialist Mahlon Picht!
"In the 1960s and 70s the farm labor movement and its allies ignited and pursued rights long denied the workers in the fields. A forceful union at the outset was the Agriculture Workers Organizing Committee, AWOC.
Two other aggressive participants were the newly organized United Farm Workers Union, joined by AWOC, and the Teamsters. The unions won contracts with large corporate growers, while claiming jurisdiction over each other’s turf. Tensions ran high over who would prevail in the fields and packing sheds.
Their contracts brought better wages, housing, and sanitation, safer working conditions, and recognition for the hard working workers in the fields and their families.
These clips from our KCRA TV achive provide glimpses of those years. I’m mindful of that time, having worked in the fields with braceros in the 1950s, irrigating tomatoes and sugar beets."

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@devonhc7770
@devonhc7770 3 жыл бұрын
rip Chavez
@jdb123ize
@jdb123ize 3 жыл бұрын
And all that union stuff drove the mom and pop farms out of business, we couldn’t compete. Thank you
@dmitriglover4309
@dmitriglover4309 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah it’s the unions fault and not the fact that massive agricultural firms can compete more efficiently. Like how on earth is this the fault of unions when most farms were always non union. I get making that argument for the auto industry but with farming it literally makes no sense to me. The United farm workers were mostly in California and yet farms all across the Midwest were gobbled up either by larger family farms or by massive corporations. All while the work force was non union. In fact as far as I know the United farm workers failed and aren’t even active anymore. Meaning all of the current blame falls on the massive companies and ironically rural farmers/workers that have campaigned against the cheap labor illegal immigrants provide…which they need to work on their farms. They can’t afford to pay an American a living wage and no legal American is gonna work for minimum wage or less when they can make the same amount to sit on their ass at a gas station or office desk🤷‍♂️.
@nguday2003
@nguday2003 2 жыл бұрын
Not true. Corporations take evry ounce out of a community and leave for countries with lower standards. Ask any small farmer - the US supports polices that help global growers and do nothing for small farmers. You just sound like every other uninformed person.
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