1. Chavez and the UFW Fred Ross and the CSO Communist rumors Organizing farm workers –National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) –Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC)

2. Woody Guthrie and Fred Ross

3. Beginnings of the UFW Living conditions for farm workers No strikes Not a union?

4. Black Civil Rights Movement End of Cold War JFK elected 1960

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6. Beginnings of UFW Sept. 8, 1965: Filipino farm workers on strike FWA joins the strike Interracial solidarity –Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee –Congress of Racial Equality Local law enforcement harasses strikers

7. Larry Itilong

8. A Filipino picketer holds a sign showing the support of the AFL-CIO and AWOC (Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee) for the Grape Strike, Delano, California.

9. Mack Lyons and Cesar Chavez

10. National Attention Dec. 1965: The first boycott-Schenley Industries (DiGiorgio Fruit Corporation, Giumarra Vineyards) March 1966: Robert Kennedy and the U.S. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor March –April 1966: Publicizing the cause with the march to Sacramento

11. Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) march against S&W Foods during the Grape Boycott, Long Beach California. UAW members were in the area to attend the 1966 conference.

12. Walter Reuther

13. March to Sacramento, 1966

14. April, 10 1966: Supporters of the United Farm Workers (UFW) gather at the end of the Peregrinacion (Pilgrimage), a 340-mile march from Delano to the steps of the state Capitol, in Sacramento.

15. Battling the Teamsters DiGiorgio and the Teamsters Union elections 1968: Nationwide grape boycott, Giumarra Vineyards Fasting

19. 1970 Continuing the fight Challenging the Teamsters Spring/Summer 1973 grape contracts set to expire California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, 1975 –ALRB

20. Cesar Chavez shaking hands with John Giumarra Jr., representing 26 of the California's largest table grape growers, ending the five-year boycott of table grapes.

22. Beyond 1975 January-October 1979--In a bid to improve wages and benefits, the UFW strikes a number of major lettuce and vegetable growers up and down the state. Grower foremen shoot to death Rufino Contreras, a 27-year old striker, in an Imperial Valley lettuce field.

23. Summer 1980--Thousands of garlic workers in Santa Clara and San Benito counties join UFW strikes and vote for the union in state-conducted elections. Early 1980s--With election victories and contract negotiations during the 1970s and early 80s, the number of farm workers protected by UFW contracts grows to the mid-40,000s.

24. 1986--Chavez kicks off the "Wrath of Grapes" campaign to draw public attention to the pesticide poisoning of grape workers and their children. July-August 1988--At age 61, Chavez conducts his last, and longest, public fast of 36 days in Delano to call attention to farm workers and their children stricken by pesticides.

25. April 23, 1993--Cesar Chavez dies http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?menu=rese arch&inc=_page.php?menu=research&inc =history/01.html

26. Spring-summer 1992--Working with UFW First Vice President Arturo Rodriguez, Chavez leads vineyard walkouts in the Coachella and San Joaquin valleys. As a result, grape workers win their first industry-wide pay hike in eight years.

27. UFW brings change First collective bargaining agreement between farm workers and growers First union contracts requiring rest periods, clean drinking water, hand-washing facilities Banning of dangerous pesticides, banning spraying while workers are in the fields, regulating re-entry time after fields are sprayed

28. UFW brings change First union contracts replacing farm labor contractors with union hiring halls to guarantee seniority rights and job security Established first union health benefits for farm workers and their families through the UFW First pension plan for retired farm workers

29. UFW brings change First farm worker credit union Abolition of short-handled hoe Extension of state coverage for unemployment, disability, worker’s compensation to farm workers

30. Fair Labor Standards Act 1938 established minimum wage, overtime 1966 FLSA applies to farm workers--no overtime Child labor—”hazardous tasks” minimum 14 for farm workers/ no restrictions on children young as 12 working during non- school hours

31. 1983: Migrant Seasonal Ag Worker Protection Act does not grant farm workers right to collective bargaining Ag. Employers must disclose employment terms at time of recruitment and comply with those terms Labor contractors must register with U.S. Dept. of Labor Providers of housing to farm workers must meet local and federal standards Safe transportation of farm workers Replaced 1963 Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 which was not aimed at growers, but labor contractors