ufw in florida is often ignored part of union's history, union signed historic contract with coca cola in early 70s covering workers in its orange groves (company owns minute maid), maintained contract for a couple of decades, coca cola sold all of its groves in the 90s (a lot of minute maid oj no longer comes from florida oranges, but from central american and brazil)...
minute maid contract was only one ufw ever had in florida (a so-called 'right to work' state) until it signed a contract with quincy farms 5-6 years ago convering mushroom workers...
while my own experience was always indirect (i was part of students for farmworkers in early 70s at university of florida, worked in various ways with florida farmworker alliance for quite a few years), couple of friends were ufw organizers in florida (belle glade) in late 70s/early 80s, they talked about the kinds of things that appear in the los angeles times story...
among other things, talk of leftist politics was off-limits, one of my friends - now dead - was cp member run off because of his politics... michael hoover
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