What steps is the farm union taking to combat the union-busting climate set by the present administration?
Really, in terms of the administrative powers, Governor Deukmejian has tremendous powers and he’s really very much against our union, so very little can be done there. I think legislatively we can checkmate him in the state legislature and keep the law from being either gutted down or new bills against the law being enacted, but I think that our best bet is to do what we did when we had no law, and that was to boycott. And so we’re starting the California grape boycott precisely because of that. Q: How many members belong to your union at the present time? I think this person wants to join. How much are your union dues? A: Well, we have a little over 100,000 members, but they don’t work. They’re sometimes like actors and actresses. They work, you know, sporadically. UFW VS. BRUCE CHURCH INC. By 1984 the United Farm Workers was into the fifth year of what would become one the longest-running farm labor disputes in American history. In 1979, the UFW’s contract with Bruce Church Inc. – th
