Harvest at Hiyu Wine Farm, Hood River, Oregon / Photo by Nate Ready
In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) into law. It allowed employees to unionize and negotiate competitive wages and working conditions. Agricultural workers, however, were not included.
The treatment of agricultural workers in the United States is “deep in the shadows of slavery,” says Elizabeth Strater, director of strategic campaigns for the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), the country’s largest union for agricultural workers.
A precursor to the UFW, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) was created in 1962 by labor activists Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. The NFWA advocated for workers in California’s most lucrative agricultural industry: grape growing. After years of boycotts and community organization, the NFWA secured the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), which guaranteed the rights of farm workers to organize and coll
The Tom & Ethel Bradley Center received a grant from the (NEH) to digitize some of the approximately 22,000 images in its Farmworker Movement Collection.
By City News Service
May 7, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Work is getting underway on a 40-unit permanent supportive housing project in South Los Angeles that is funded by the private sector and named for civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, who was on hand today for the groundbreaking ceremony.
The Dolores Huerta Apartments project is being built on a city-owned lot at 5215 S. Figueroa St., valued at about $1.1 million. Minus the land, the property project is being fully funded through $7 million in private sector money from the SDS Capital Group s Supportive Housing Fund. In February, the group announced it had raised $106 million in private- sector capital to build 1,800 permanent supportive housing units for people in California in partnership with RMG Housing, an affordable housing developer, allowing it to complete its developments three times as fast and at less than half the average per-unit cost of other permanent sustainable housing in the state.
This year’s virtual conference will feature Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and civil rights icon, Dolores Huerta, who along with Cesar Chavez, was a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association
(SAN RAFAEL, Calif.) NEWS: Marin Academy’s Conference on Democracy, founded in 2004, earned nationwide recognition for Marin Academy as a leading independent school focused on equity and justice. The conference features sessions that are designed and facilitated jointly by MA students and faculty in partnership with local and national experts, activists, and stakeholders.
Marin Academy’s 17th Annual Conference on Democracy will explore local, national, and global issues with student activists, leaders, and luminaries.