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Ernest Rodriguez' "Impressions," 1960s-1980s

""United Farm Workers Union"" by Ernest Rodriguez Page 2

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in contract bargaining. Now the NLBA establishes the right to organize into unions affording all the appeal apparatus and protection to both labor and management in industry therefore the logical conclusion is that in the absence of the protective measures of the NLRB that the parties to the labor dispute in the table grape industry would consent to a supervised election by an impartial mediator. Unfortunately this table grape growers who were keenly their economic position of strength in a community and state geared to the financial operation of the growing industry, chose to ignore the unions petition for elections and forewith recruited strikebreakers as far away as among the poverty stricken people of the U.S Mexico border country. 
This left no other resource to the UFWOC but to appeal for public support of the legitimacy of their position as defined by the National Labor Relations Act. The public in its role as a consumer has responded in giving support to the just cause of the UFWOC in a national boycott of table grapes 
The apparent success of the grape boycott has led to an unheard of paradox of the publics role in his labor dispute. The department of the Army since the grape boycott was launched has increased its purchases of California table grapes with publics money in the form of taxes to ship the to servicemen serving in Viet-nam to compound the unprecedented sin of the government's one sided interaction in a labor dispute. It seems that President Nixon's inauguration has been a green light to the Department of the Army inasmuch as it's purchases of table grapes from California are eight times more this year than they were in 1968.

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-2- in contract bargaining. Now the NLBA establishes the right to organize into unions affording all the appeal apparatus and protection to both labor and management in industry therefore the logical conclusion is that in the absence of the protective measures of the NLRB that the parties to the labor dispute in the table grape industry would consent to a supervised election by an impartial mediator. Unfortunately this table grape growers who were keenly their economic position of strength in a community and state geared to the financial operation of the growing industry, chose to ignore the unions petition for elections and forewith recruited strikebreakers as far away as among the poverty stricken people of the U.S Mexico border country. This left no other resource to the UFWOC but to appeal for public support of the legitimacy of their position as defined by the National Labor Relations Act. The public in its role as a consumer has responded in giving support to the just cause of the UFWOC in a national boycott of table grapes The apparent success of the grape boycott has led to an unheard of paradox of the publics role in his labor dispute. The department of the Army since the grape boycott was launched has increased its purchases of California table grapes with publics money in the form of taxes to ship the to servicemen serving in Viet-nam to compound the unprecedented sin of the government's one sided interaction in a labor dispute. It seems that President Nixon's inauguration has been a green light to the Department of the Army inasmuch as it's purchases of table grapes from California are eight times more this year than they were in 1968.