Agriculture unions, with church's support, fight uphill battle for farmworkers' rights, dignity

By Kimberley Heatherington (OSV News) -- "If you want to remember me, organize," said César Chávez, the legendary Mexican-American labor leader who for decades championed U.S. agricultural workers in a nonviolent struggle to improve their working and living conditions. An estimated 2.9 million seasonal, migrant, and resident laborers annually stream to dusty fields across the

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