This boycott, the Gallo Grape boycott, includes all table grapes, lettuce and most importantly Gallo Wine, which produced a third of the wine for the United States. Chavez eventually calls off the strike after hundreds of strikers are beaten, and two are murdered. This led a months long strike by grape workers that led to 3,500 nonviolent strikers being arrested for picketing. The UFW went on numerous strikes, walked all the way from Central California to Sacramento, and Cesar Chavez even went on a hunger strike in order to achieve this monumental win of the right to Unionize in California and winning the contract with Delano, and most of the California grape growers in 1970.īut in 1973 Delano walked back on the deal, instead giving a sweetheart deal, which included unsafe working conditions, to the Teamsters Union.
The UFW had fought long and hard with the growers in California to unionize and achieve better work conditions.
The Gallo Grapes boycott is a long running fight between agricultural workers in California (and various other states, but mostly situated in California) and the United Farmer Workers that came to a head in 1973.
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