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To provide farm
workers and other working people with the inspiration and tools to
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Integrity: Doing the right
thing even when no one is looking
Si Se Puede® Attitude: The embodiment of a personal
and organizational spirit that promotes confidence, courage
and risk taking
Innovation: The active pursuit of new ideas
Non-Violence: Engaging in disciplined action
Empowerment: A fundamental belief in and respect for
people
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| Founded in 1962 by Cesar
Chavez, the United Farm Workers of America is the nation's first
successful and largest farm workers union currently active in 10
states. The UFW continues to organize in major agricultural industries
across the nation. Recent years have witnessed dozens of key UFW
union contract victories, among them the largest strawberry, rose,
winery and mushroom firms in California and the nation. 75 percent
of California's mushroom industry is now under union contract. In
2007, the United Farm Workers signed its first contract with Salinas,
Calif.-based D'Arrigo Bros., California's third-largest vegetable
company. The agreement covers 1,800 farm workers in the Salinas
and Imperial valleys. The UFW signed a contract, also in 2007, with
Three Mile Canyon Farms, America's largest dairy-and the first major
union contract protecting farm workers in Oregon. They soon signed
up another nearby dairy, Willow Creek. Many recent UFW-sponsored
laws and regulations aide farm workers; in California, the first
state regulation in the U.S. prevents further heat deaths of farm
workers. The UFW is also pushing its historic bipartisan and broadly
backed AgJobs immigration reform bill.
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