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[[ | La Causa continues today. The UFW continues to fight for the rights of farmworkers. The union remains a non-violent force, and it currently led by Arturo Rodriguez, who succeeded Chavez, Arturo's father-in-law, after his death in 1993. A veteran organizer, Texas-born Rodriguez first joined the union in 1973 while earning a master's degree in social work at the University of Michigan. Since becoming union president, he has led many organizing campaigns, led the UFW to fifteen straight victories in union recognition elections and signed eighteen new contracts with growers.[http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?menu=about&inc=about_exe.html][http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/ufw.html] | ||
[[Advocacy Campaigns]] | However, even though La Causa continues, "many of the early successes of the UFW are now eroding. Children are back in the fields. Workers wages are down. The successes of the '60s and '70s were gutted in the '80s and early '90s, and things remain very tough for these Americans." Today, the union has 26,000 members. This is extremely low, considering the 1.6 million farmworkers in the U.S.[http://itvs.org/external/chavez/film/more_film.html] | ||
To prove, though, that the UFW could only grow from the position it was in at the time of Chavez's death, Rodriguez marched 343 miles from Delano to Sacramento, "echoing Cesar's historic 1966 peregrinación and demonstrating the strength of the UFW and the fact that Cesar's dream of a national union for farm workers remains a possibility." [http://clnet.ucla.edu/research/chavez/bio/] The UFW continues to fight and win battles. | |||
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Latest revision as of 00:41, 12 May 2006
La Causa continues today. The UFW continues to fight for the rights of farmworkers. The union remains a non-violent force, and it currently led by Arturo Rodriguez, who succeeded Chavez, Arturo's father-in-law, after his death in 1993. A veteran organizer, Texas-born Rodriguez first joined the union in 1973 while earning a master's degree in social work at the University of Michigan. Since becoming union president, he has led many organizing campaigns, led the UFW to fifteen straight victories in union recognition elections and signed eighteen new contracts with growers.[1][2]
However, even though La Causa continues, "many of the early successes of the UFW are now eroding. Children are back in the fields. Workers wages are down. The successes of the '60s and '70s were gutted in the '80s and early '90s, and things remain very tough for these Americans." Today, the union has 26,000 members. This is extremely low, considering the 1.6 million farmworkers in the U.S.[3]
To prove, though, that the UFW could only grow from the position it was in at the time of Chavez's death, Rodriguez marched 343 miles from Delano to Sacramento, "echoing Cesar's historic 1966 peregrinación and demonstrating the strength of the UFW and the fact that Cesar's dream of a national union for farm workers remains a possibility." [4] The UFW continues to fight and win battles.
