The filipino Strike leaders and farmworkers

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Picture"Working with the Brothers" Photo Gallery by Hub Segur (Source: The Farmworker Movement Online Gallery)
"The photos posted in this gallery follow my trail as a staff member with the Union, starting in Delano in 1969 at one of the weekly Friday Night Meetings in Filipino Hall in Delano followed by scenes around Delano. When I was assigned to the Los Angeles Boycott, I worked and roomed with a number of the Filipino brothers who had been farmworkers. The Filipino workers and their leaders, Larry Itliong, Philip Vera Cruz, Andy Imutan, and Pete Velasco played major roles in developing the Union."

                                                                                   - Hub Segur
                                                                                   UFWOC Staff Member/Photographer

 the rights demanded

The Delano farmworkers demanded $ 1.40 per hour plus 25 cents for each box of grapes picked. They also asked for union recognition and improvements in working conditions.
Filipino farmworkers taking part in pickets
(Photos from the Farmworker Movement Online Gallery)

establishment of the ufwoc

"In August 1966, Bill Kircher, the National Director of Organizing for the AFL-CIO, negotiated a merger between  AWOC and the NFWA, which would become UFWOC (United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO). Cesar Chavez was named President, and Larry Itliong was named Vice-President. In this photo, Cesar Chavez and Larry Itliong display the new  AFL-CIO charter, which authorized their new Union." (Photo and Caption from the Farmworker Movement Online Gallery)