United Farm Workers Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers is a labor union for farm workers which was founded by Cesar Chavez in response to the hardships he experienced as a migrant worker. For more than a century farm workers had been denied a decent life in the fields and communities of California’s agricultural valleys, and the creation of unions began to change this landscape. Farm Workers dealt with several difficulties in California. For example, farm workers were excluded from important national labor protections that benefitted other workers. Their jobs subjected them to health problems as a result of pesticide exposure, dreadful housing conditions, workplace abuse, and a series of other issues. Workers like Chavez made 90 cents an hour and all drank from the same
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As the Union membership and exposure increased, farm workers were able to obtain the power necessary to call other allies in other unions in order to help grow the civil rights movements. Within 15 years of creation, more than 50,000 farm workers were protected by union contracts.
The United Farm Workers achieved many historic gains for farm workers. Farm Workers began negotiating contracts that required employers to provide rest periods, toilets in the fields, clean drinking water, hand washing facilities, protective clothing against pesticide exposure, banning pesticide exposure and other restraints on pesticide usage. They began the first and only functioning pension plan for retired farm workers, the “Juan de la Cruz Pension …show more content…
Their jobs can eventually subject them to health problems resulting from pesticide exposure, deplorable housing conditions, workplace abuse, and a series of other issues. These farmers who work to feed the U.S., especially California, struggle even to provide a meal for their own families let alone everyone else's’. Many of the times these workers are young adults or even children; in all cases, the farm workers are excluded from important national labor protections that other workers possess. The role of farm workers is one of the most vital jobs, and yet it is also one of the most dangerous and least adequately compensated. Farm workers in California earn between $12,500 to $14,000 a year for individuals and $17,500 to $19,999 for a
As the Union membership and exposure increased, farm workers were able to obtain the power necessary to call other allies in other unions in order to help grow the civil rights movements. Within 15 years of creation, more than 50,000 farm workers were protected by union contracts.
The United Farm Workers achieved many historic gains for farm workers. Farm Workers began negotiating contracts that required employers to provide rest periods, toilets in the fields, clean drinking water, hand washing facilities, protective clothing against pesticide exposure, banning pesticide exposure and other restraints on pesticide usage. They began the first and only functioning pension plan for retired farm workers, the “Juan de la Cruz Pension …show more content…
Their jobs can eventually subject them to health problems resulting from pesticide exposure, deplorable housing conditions, workplace abuse, and a series of other issues. These farmers who work to feed the U.S., especially California, struggle even to provide a meal for their own families let alone everyone else's’. Many of the times these workers are young adults or even children; in all cases, the farm workers are excluded from important national labor protections that other workers possess. The role of farm workers is one of the most vital jobs, and yet it is also one of the most dangerous and least adequately compensated. Farm workers in California earn between $12,500 to $14,000 a year for individuals and $17,500 to $19,999 for a