Filipino Farm Workers

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Many Mexican and Filipino immigrants move to the United States to searching for a new life. Immigrant begin to migrate to American it was high demand looking for work in agricultural labors. immigration opportunity to work legally binding contract, but they suffer getting low-wage, their rights, and racial discrimination. Immigration job as farm worker was being unpaid and denied their right to get a union while the American have full right in their job. The labor wage for immigrant was being inhuman condition and there was no law to protect their working condition. The farm worker has no toilet to use while working, and were required to get paid two dollars or more per a day to live in a metal shack without plumbing and electricity. On the …show more content…
The Filipino farm worker asked Cesar Chaves to join them, who form a Latino farm work union, the National Farm Workers Association, to join their strike. Chavez main goal was to overthrow the farm labor system in the United States that mistreat farm worker as if they are not important. He found the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, which allow him to gain access to the labor campaign.
Chaves want to give farmer work their dignity and right to be respected in American. In 1965 September, the Delano Agricultural Worker Organize Committee was mostly Filipino grape picker went on strike for higher paid. The AWOC's leader Phillip Vera Cruz knew that to have a successful strike not only Filipino worker involved, but also adding Mexican and Chicano workers in Delano. He reached out to Chavez and the NFWA, which give him the support to expand the strike and form a union
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He and the working farmer strike involved by sating in the field without working to ask for a higher rise and hour increase. The strike captured with full spirit and all the farmer was standing by side with each other without fear. This campaign turn into a boycott non-union grapes, they attracted national and international support. Its turning out to be a form of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW). However, Phillip Vera Cruz resigned from the United Farm Workers Union due to Cesar Chavez was well known to help farm worker to get their right and protection. Cruz and Chavez help build a stable work union for immigration until their last breath to keep famer worker to be recognized and able to live

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