Rights Gained

rights and Benefits gained

SIGNING OF THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT (CBA)

Representing the UFWOC, Cesar Chavez and Larry Itliong (wearing the hat), sign the Collective Bargaining Agreement with the growers . (Photo from the Walter Reuther Library through the Filipino American National Historical Society)

"The fight in the Delano vineyards ended on July 29, 1970, due in large part to the combination of an effective boycott and the mediation efforts of the U.S. Catholic Church; specifically the Bishop’s Committee on Farm Labor. Growers covering almost half of California’s table grape crop and roughly eight thousand farmworkers signed contracts with the UFWOC. These agreements provided laborers with wages of $ 1.80 an hour – 40 cents more than they had requested at the strike’s beginning."

Excerpt from Cesar Chavez, the Catholic Bishops, and the Farmworkers’ Struggle for Social Justice, a book by Marco G, Pouty

The signatures in the Collective Bargaining Agreement signed on July 29, 1970.

Source: El Malcriado- August 1, 1970.

The CBA provided not only for the rights but also responsibilities
which both the Growers and the Union must respect and promote.

UNION RECOGNITION

"[The] Company does hereby recognize Union as the sole labor organization representing Company's agricultural employees (herein called "workers") and recognizes and agrees to treat and negotiate with Union as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for and on behalf of such workers on properties owned or leased by Company, and all other workers employed by Company. The term "worker" shall not include office and sales employees, subcontract labor, and supervisory employees with the authority to hire or fire (herein called "Supervisors")."

-The CBA Section 1A.

"[The] Company further recognizes the rights and obligations of Union to negotiate wages, hours, and conditions of employment and to administer this Agreement on behalf of all covered employees."

-The CBA Section 1B.