"UFW: The Official Web Page of the United
Farm Workers of America." UFW: The Official
Web Page of
the United Farm Workers of America. 01 May 2012.
The Role of United
Farm Workers Association (UFW) in America
United Farm Workers Association (UFW) played a vital role in improving the lives
of farm working communities of the California. After a fierce struggle against
growers, government and the police, its establishment in 1962 was a probe result
of collective effort by many, and the outcomes were so astounding. As an
organization, United Farm Workers, (UFW), brought,
“The first
union contracts eliminating farm labor contractors and guaranteeing farm
workers seniority, rights and job security, establishing the first
comprehensive union health benefits for farm workers and their families through
the UFW's Robert F. Kennedy Medical Plan, the first and only functioning
pension plan for retired farm workers, the Juan de la Cruz Pension Plan, the
first functioning credit union for farm workers, the first union contracts
regulating safety and sanitary conditions in farm labor camps, banning
discrimination in employment and sexual harassment of women workers, the first
union contracts providing for profit sharing and parental leave.”
It took long
time for United Farm Workers Association to be recognized by growers and
government bodies as an intermediate body working on behalf of farm workers.
All the hiring and legal matters related to the farm workers will be dealt by
the union. The perseverance of the union leaders and specially Cesar Chavez and
Dolores Huerta was outstanding. Good organization needs smart and brave people.
The union’s transcendent work is still in effect. The level of trust farm
workers put on their union is glue which can’t be separated from the union.
Success is comes with hard work. As Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly
do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” The Union has been doing the
same thing over and over again.
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