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Agriculture unions, with church's support, fight uphill battle for farmworkers' rights, dignity

(OSV News) If you want to remember me, organize, said César Chávez, the legendary Mexican-American labor leader who for decades championed U.S. agricultural workers in a nonviolent struggle to improve their working and living conditions.

An estimated 2.9 million seasonal, migrant, and resident laborers annually stream to dusty fields across the country to pick America s produce. At the height of its influence, their union United Farm Workers had 60,000 members. It was a force to be ....

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