Imagine having to bend down from dawn to dusk, working in 100 degree weather while picking out fruits and vegetables without any breaks. It’s exhausting, boring, and hurts your back. There are no bathroom facilities including having to sleep in a uncomfortable small dirty shack. You’re paid very little which is about a dollar an hour. Although grateful to have work, you feel disrespected. One of the most controversial issues in our complicated history was the mistreatment of fieldworkers. Many people have struggled in trying to fight in having the equality; however, Cesar Chavez and other brave farmworkers were willing to risk their lives and their jobs for better wages and respect for farmworkers. Cesar Chavez and The United Farmworkers Union
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Boycotts were difficult to lead because of the discrimination of how illegal immigrants were looked upon differently. Their multiple protest and hunger strikes served to show growers that they weren’t going to keep putting up of how unfair and how harsh they get treated. Chavez once stated, “Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society.” This states how being kind and compassion towards others, it will help society be civilized. The strikes helped benefit migrant workers. Cesar Chavez wanted to help change how farmworkers would get treated because he had to face the struggles of an everyday migrant farmworker. Growing up as a kid, he had a nomadic life with little education and would witness the unfair treatment farmworkers were receiving, which he wanted to make a change in the world. Arturo Rodriguez, Cesar Chavez son in law took over once Chavez passed in 1993. In order to keep improving the lives of migrants. Arturo has worked very hard in trying to help provide for the needs of farm workers and their rights. To improve the association and to gain support from the society he started several protests, strikes and boycotts against growers and people that try to bring down the UFW. Rodriguez states, “We’re going to see a movement across America. A million workers fighting for immigrations reforms,” (Morning edition, 2006). He also believed in nonviolence and that it can help make social change. His plans and strategies for the union rights were important and would help soon later impact the
Boycotts were difficult to lead because of the discrimination of how illegal immigrants were looked upon differently. Their multiple protest and hunger strikes served to show growers that they weren’t going to keep putting up of how unfair and how harsh they get treated. Chavez once stated, “Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society.” This states how being kind and compassion towards others, it will help society be civilized. The strikes helped benefit migrant workers. Cesar Chavez wanted to help change how farmworkers would get treated because he had to face the struggles of an everyday migrant farmworker. Growing up as a kid, he had a nomadic life with little education and would witness the unfair treatment farmworkers were receiving, which he wanted to make a change in the world. Arturo Rodriguez, Cesar Chavez son in law took over once Chavez passed in 1993. In order to keep improving the lives of migrants. Arturo has worked very hard in trying to help provide for the needs of farm workers and their rights. To improve the association and to gain support from the society he started several protests, strikes and boycotts against growers and people that try to bring down the UFW. Rodriguez states, “We’re going to see a movement across America. A million workers fighting for immigrations reforms,” (Morning edition, 2006). He also believed in nonviolence and that it can help make social change. His plans and strategies for the union rights were important and would help soon later impact the