Cesar Chavez
Noun
Meaning
United States labor leader who organized farm workers (born 1927)
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As a former farm worker, Damian now honors his first job, on the Cesar Chavez Holiday.
Activist Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union and fought for racial and labor justice in partnership with Cesar Chavez is profiled in this documentary.
Guillen grew up in southeast Houston, graduated from Cesar Chavez High School, played soccer, and loves the Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny.
In 2016, the United Farm Workers Union — the storied outfit founded by Cesar Chavez — finally prevailed in its multiyear fight to secure overtime pay for farm workers.
Mr. Lewis, who was called “the conscience of the Congress” by his colleagues, had been on a short list of names since March that also included former President Barack Obama and Cesar Chavez, the farmworker organizer, she added.
Happy Khao's food offerings — which, notably and sacrilegiously also includes Vietnamese pho — are allegedly being cooked in a warehouse being leased by in the Potrero Business Center at 1760 Cesar Chavez, underneath the 101 and 280 freeways.