了解劳工维权人士凯萨查维斯的生活和事业

工人。组织者。积极分子。凯萨查维斯是谁?凯萨查维斯出生于1927年3月31日,在亚利桑那州尤马。在大萧条期间,查韦斯失去了家庭农场。找工作,他们搬到了加利福尼亚,他们成了农民工:未足额支付劳动者季节性工作的临时工作在农业和经常住在临时营地。大多数童年花从农场到农场,寻求工作和他的家人,凯萨查维斯只是偶尔上学。后两年军队在第二次世界大战期间,查韦斯回到移民农场工作。很快,他将开始他的职业生涯在劳动组织与社区服务组织,在那里他担任主管四年。 In 1962 Cesar Chavez left the Community Services Organization to cofound the National Farm Workers Association, or NFWA, with fellow activist Dolores Huerta. In September 1965 Chavez began leading what became a five-year strike by California grape pickers and a nationwide grape boycott that found support across the United States. Labor battles with agribusinesses, including grape and lettuce farms, generally ended with signed bargaining agreements, thanks to Chavez and the NFWA. Cesar Chavez died on April 23, 1993. In 2014 U.S. President Barack Obama declared Chavez’s birthday, March 31, a national holiday.