Cesar Chavez Factory Workers Movement

The United Farm Worker Union brought Cesar Chavez a lot of success like getting insurance for workers, gaining higher wages, and better working conditions.

During the 1920s many farm workers suffered mistreatment without a clue 7 years later Cesar Chavez was born to later become the American hero to all immigrants and workers.

Back in the 1920s many Mexicans fled north to the U.S to escape the bloodshed in search of new lives. They were granted what they called a Work-Visa which is a Bracero or guest workers program. This program recruited Mexicans to work on U.S. farms under the Bilateral Agreements. This contracts were legally binding, many Mexicans suffered gross abuses and racial discriminations. Farm workers were often unpaid,
denied the right to unionize, work under inhuman conditions, no toilets on the workplace. They had to pay 2 dollars or more per day to live in metal shacks with no plumbing or electricity; their average pay was 90 cents a day plus 10 cents per every basket picked.

The United Farm Worker Union brought Cesar Chavez a lot of success like getting insurance for workers. In 1962 the National Farm Workers was the first insurance or association Cesar Chavez came up with along with Dolores Huerta the co-founder.

This association brought the minimum to workers for example: minimum wage, insurance, and collective bargaining.
Later to become the United farm worker union became even more powerful. First rising up, September 1965 with the fledgling farm workers association initiated by Filipino workers in Delano's grape fields fighting for their rights within months he was nationally known. A year later the Sacramento March began this brought the Grape Strike and consumer boycott into national consciousness. This strike lasted 5 years yet, ended in a great success on July 29, 1970, were 26 Delano growers formally signed the contract. That same year teamstern's challenge the UFW in Salinas Valley by signing Sweetheart contracts with growers: this began a bloody-year struggle. In 1973 they signed a jurisdictional agreement temporary ending the
strike.

The United Farm Worker Union brought Cesar Chavez a lot of success like gaining higher wages for all farm workers. During those days farm workers were often unpaid denied the right to unionize inhuman conditions, no toilets, pay 2 dollars or more per day to live in metal shacks, with no plumbing or electricity paid 90 cents a day plus 10 cents per basket picked. This payment wasn’t enough to maintain a family nor even themselves yet, they had to take what they would get pay due to that they were immigrants in the country. Cesar Chavez wanted for all workers to get a minimum wage but his goal was to get a higher wage than the one they had. The movement he inspired succeeded in raising salaries and improving working conditions for farm workers in California, Texas, Arizona, and Florida.

The United Farm Worker Union brought Cesar Chavez a lot of success like getting better working conditions.
During the 1920s, immigrants were given what they called a Work-Visa: This Work-Visa were given by the Bracero or also known as Guest Workers Programs which is where they recruited mexicans to work on U.S farms under the Bilateral Agreements. This contracts was a legally binding contract were farmers suffered gross abuses and racial discriminations.

"We demand to be treated like the men we are! We are not slaves and we are not animals," Cesar Chavez said after a speech he gave during 1968, so as a saying "Si Se Puede" (Yes You Can)(Cesar Chavez) get good working conditions ("Chavez foundation” n.p.). That same year the boycott of California table grape growers also known as "La Causa" rose. It ended during the 1970s, 17 million Americans for it Robert Kennedy was a great supporter. Later Chavez goes on a 25-day hunger strike and attracts national attention – it was a non violent fast. In 1988 he undertakes a 36-day "Fast For Life"(Cesar Chavez) attention to the health hazards farm workers and their children expose to
pesticides.

In conclusion, Cesar Chavez goal and objective was to overthrow a farm labor system in this nation which treated farm workers as if they were not important human beings. The United Farm Worker Union brought Cesar Chavez a lot of success like getting insurance for workers, gaining higher wages, and better working conditions.

Cesar Chavez died April 23, 1993, San Luis, AZ leaving this world as "An American Hero"(Farm Workers).