United Food and Commercial Workers

Coming up to late 1990s, the United States had gone through an immense amount of economic and technological growth. With the rise of the internet, and the underlying stigma of convenience that revolves around technology, the United States’ capitalistic mindset has officially transitioned into a new era known as the information age. Synonymous to other time-periods where the standard of living rose, The 1990s going into the 2000s was a time of growth in terms convenience and comfort. With both of orientations becoming increasingly more common, consumers inevitably became more selfish and demanding with the quantity of a product and the rate at which they got it. Looking to Wal-Mart’s national success within the same time frame, it is quite…

Associates are almost always people who need all the work they can get. According to Paul Blank of the Web site WakeUpWalMart.com, which is supported by the United Food and Commercial Workers union, “What the computer is trying to optimize is the most number of parttime and least number of full-time workers at lower labor costs, with no regard for the effect that it has on workers’ lives.” Sarah Clark, speaking on behalf of Wal-Mart, insists the system’s goal; is simply to improve customer…

day-to-day lives of many through the power of major oil companies. Finding an efficient mass transportation system for people has been a consistent issue that even today we have yet to solve. The introduction of the automobile and highway systems is the closest we have come to solving this everlasting problem. Before the automobile, there were other systems of mass transit, such as the early street railways like the Pacific electric red cars of Los Angeles. These systems dominated transportation…

Most people that enjoy the produce on the table do not realize that it is was grown through extensive effort and hard work from farm workers. Farm workers grow and pick the harvest people eat. They undergo continuous physical stress while doing their job. This results in injuries and serious issues that can affect their career. Their health is put at risk when these concerns persist and when they are not provided with suitable housing. In 1970, farm laborers were paid above minimum wage at a…

for justice” (nbclatino.com). Cesar Chavez, and American labor leader, believed in non-violence as he went on his strikes. He sacrificed himself for others as he fasted for continuous days. Cesar Chavez is an important figure in American History because he used non-violence to bring attention to farm workers. Without Cesar Chavez, America would not have fair pay and working conditions in the fields. Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona, to immigrant parents. At age 10, he…

rights for farm workers, a labor leader and a civil right activist became a big hero to many farmers in California especially to many Latinos. The education Chavez got was no enough so he served in the Navy during WW II for a couple of years. In 1952 Cesar then met ad was inspired by a guy name Fred Ross. Ross a leader of Community Services Organization gave important concepts to Chavez which inspired Chavez to develop his own philosophy struggle. At the time it was very difficult for Mexicans…

Before we can understand the labor dynamics of what Filipino immigrants faced in the United States, we have to retract to earlier history between the formation of the United States and Philippine relationship. In 1898 after Spain surrendered the Philippines to the United States, President McKinley issued the Benevolent Assimilation program “…which promised that the Americans came as friends and not as conquerors” (Mabalon 29). This eventually opened the gates of Filipino migration to the United…

“One of the heroic figures [Cesar Chavez] of our times.” A quote from senator Robert F. Kennedy talking about Cesar Chavez, who started the strikes for better pay for farm workers (Alarcon). Cesar Chavez was a great man that gave U.S. farmworkers a better life. Cesar Chavez was born March 31st, 1927 in Yuma Arizona. At around this time it was the end of the great depression, and Chavez’s mother and father, Juana and Librade, had lost their farm. They then moved to California like many others to…

and salary of farm workers. He lived a hard life too, he lost his home at the age of 10 years old. He stopped going to school in grade 8 and he served in the Navy. He was the founder of the National Farm Workers Association and he did everything possible to accomplish his goals, he sacrificed his life and boycotted too. This story begins with his early life, when he started to realize how farm workers got treated and that they deserved better than that. Early Life/ Great Depression Cesar…

Pancho Villa Early Life San Juan del Rio, Durango, Mexico on June 5, 1878 is where our little war master was born and he was soon to be known by a lot of people ( Source 3 ). Jose Doroteo Arango Arambula was the name of the hero that would soon arise into his new world of Mexico ( Source 2 ). Villa was born in the mud and dirt, he was very poor and he helped his family on the farm ( Source 4 ). Once Villa started growing and getting into more action a lot of people started saying that he…