Seventy years ago, Cesar Chavez helped register 4,000 new voters over 40 hectic days and nights in the east San Jose barrio of Sal Si Puedes. On Election Day, the local Republican Party sent “challengers” to intimidate first-time Latino voters.
Farm workers and representatives from the United Farm Workers union held a rally in Modesto, California on March 31 to pressure Governor Gavin Newsom to sign the Agricultural Labor. #labor #modesto
Representatives of the United Farm Workers Foundation went to the streets to garner support for a bill that would allow union members to vote in elections by mail without the intimidation of their bosses.