Cesar Chavez Workers Movement

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Migrant workers have had an influence on the american government. They had been mistreated for years, until a man by the name Cesar Chavez came along. Changing the name for migrant workers and creating the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA). Through nonviolent protests, fasts and strikes helped found this movement. Cesar Chavez has become the center of the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) progression towards a more equal and unifies country.
Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927 in Yuma Arizona. “Chavez spent much of his early life doing backbreaking work in difficult conditions for very little pay”(“Cesar Chavez”). Working in the terrible conditions and not being treated fairly like Americans, made Chavez wanting to make a
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He then spent the next several years in fields trying to recruit more migrant workers to become apart in the National Farm Workers Association. By 1965 there were 1,700 members(“César Chávez”). The first significant strike occurred in 1965, when the union called for a national boycott of California grapes after growers refused to grant workers’ demands for better pay and working conditions. The grape boycott lasted five years and at the end of it they won, they were granted the better pay and working conditions (“United Farm Workers”). To help persuade the Union on getting what they wanted Chavez went on hunger strikes, his hunger strikes became so famous that everyone knew about them. People stopped buying grapes from the farmers, which was the key factor in getting their fair and working …show more content…
He didn’t just do strikes and hunger strikes to get what they wanted, “Chavez and his wife taught migrant workers to read and to write”(“Chavez,Cesar: ‘yes, it can be done!”) By teaching them how to read and write the migrant workers could go and get their citizenship for the United States. By the end of the fast “ 4,000 people gathered for a mass to honor his efforts. Over the next twenty years, Cesar Chavez led many other strikes against producers of fruits and vegetables who did not treat their workers with dignity and respect. By 1980 over 10,000 farm workers were receiving higher pay, health coverage and other benefits, thanks to contracts under the UFW”(“Chavez,Cesar: ‘yes, it can be done!”) Chavez fought for migrant worker rights for the rest of his life. The National Farm Worker Association was a success. That program helped get equal rights for migrant workers. This movement was a success because in the end everyone got what not only what they wanted but what they needed. Getting higher pay, and health benefits, also getting better working conditions. If you jeopardize an americans profits, or work you will get what you want. That just shows how greedy americans are. Unlike migrant workers who are trying to get away from the bad working conditions and live the american dream, us americans just take their fairly earned