Title: 5 Latino-Led Labor Strikes That Championed Rights for American Workers - HISTORY
Headings: 5 Latino-Led Labor Strikes That Championed Rights for American Workers
5 Latino-Led Labor Strikes That Championed Rights for American Workers
They had a profound effect on the massive world of American food production.
The Oxnard Strike (1903)
The El Monte Berry Strike (1933)
Pecan Shellers’ Strike (1938)
The Delano Grape Strike (1965)
Immokalee Workers’ Hunger Strike (2003)
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Publish date: Sep 16, 2020
5 Latino-Led Labor Strikes That Championed Rights for American Workers
They had a profound effect on the massive world of American food production. Author: Lakshmi Gandhi
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They had a profound effect on the massive world of American food production. When it comes to the fight for workers’ rights in the United States, Latino Americans have been critical players since the early 1900s. Their organizing and agitating have led to improved working conditions and wages in industries across the U.S.
“Latinos have been part of the long history of the construction of this country and this labor force,” especially in the American West, says Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, project director at UCLA’s Center for Labor Research and Education. “ They were part of the completion of the transcontinental railroad. They were part of the early Los Angeles building boom.” And of course they have had a profound impact on the massive world of American food production, where they have been heavily represented both in the fields and in processing plants. Latino workers’ fight for protections and living wages has been an uphill one, weighted with layers of discrimination. “