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El Laberinto, 1971-1987
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[emblem on each side] Salinas, Calif. As the first round of farm worker union elections nears an end, the growers have opened a legal attack on the voting rights of the most militant members of the United Farm Workers union. Now being challenged are the workers who went on strike rather than accept the imposition of Teamster contracts at their ranches. More than 1000 such strikers have cast ballots in recent elections, but these votes have not been officially counted because of grower protests. If the strikers' votes are allowed by the state Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB), at least eight major elections where the Teamsters now lead by a narrow margin will become UFW victories. As of Sept.19, a total of about 120 elections have been held around the state. The ALRB on that date reported a total of 9018 for the UFW, 5528 for the Teamsters and 2891 for "no union." While the Teamsters apparently succeeded in retaining a number of their contracts at Delano, Salinas and Oxnard, they have lost at least 30 to the UFW in those area, including 14 major lettuce companies in Salinas where the counting of ballots finally began on Sept.17. Very few of the elections have been "certified" by the ALRB because of appeals and challenges by various parties. No contract negotiations can begin until such certification has been issued. The UFW's complaints center around the numerous incidents of intimidation of workers, harassment of organizers and general Teamster-grower collusion, that have made the day-to-day struggle over the past three months. In the southern San Joaquin valley alone, the UFW has filed charges against 24 different growers while the Teamsters have filed none as of Sept.8. from "Guardian", October 1, 1975
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[emblem on each side] Salinas, Calif. As the first round of farm worker union elections nears an end, the growers have opened a legal attack on the voting rights of the most militant members of the United Farm Workers union. Now being challenged are the workers who went on strike rather than accept the imposition of Teamster contracts at their ranches. More than 1000 such strikers have cast ballots in recent elections, but these votes have not been officially counted because of grower protests. If the strikers' votes are allowed by the state Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB), at least eight major elections where the Teamsters now lead by a narrow margin will become UFW victories. As of Sept.19, a total of about 120 elections have been held around the state. The ALRB on that date reported a total of 9018 for the UFW, 5528 for the Teamsters and 2891 for "no union." While the Teamsters apparently succeeded in retaining a number of their contracts at Delano, Salinas and Oxnard, they have lost at least 30 to the UFW in those area, including 14 major lettuce companies in Salinas where the counting of ballots finally began on Sept.17. Very few of the elections have been "certified" by the ALRB because of appeals and challenges by various parties. No contract negotiations can begin until such certification has been issued. The UFW's complaints center around the numerous incidents of intimidation of workers, harassment of organizers and general Teamster-grower collusion, that have made the day-to-day struggle over the past three months. In the southern San Joaquin valley alone, the UFW has filed charges against 24 different growers while the Teamsters have filed none as of Sept.8. from "Guardian", October 1, 1975
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