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
(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 country to pick America s produce. At the height of its influence, their union United Farm Workers had 60,000 members. It was a force to be