12:30 p.m. Monday, June 1, in East L.A.
Davis joins hundreds of farm workers ‘human billboarding’ in East L.A.
Gray Davis will join hundreds of farm workers, United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez and union co-founder Dolores Huerta at a "human billboard" line mid-day Monday on Avenida Cesar Chavez in East Los Angeles. The farm workers, who are spending the last five days before Tuesday’s primary campaigning for the Democratic gubernatorial front runner, will use Davis signs to attract the attention of passing motorists and pedestrians at the busy intersection.
The lieutenant governor’s association with the UFW and its founder, Cesar Chavez, goes back more than 23 years when Davis was chief of staff to former Gov. Jerry Brown. "Gray helped Cesar and the farm workers win some of our greatest victories," says Rodriguez, who became UFW president after the legendary farm labor leader’s death in 1993.
"Gray helped push through California’s landmark 1975 Agricultural Labor Relations Act that granted farm workers the right to organize and bargain with growers," Rodriguez says. "He helped farm workers win unemployment insurance for the first time and outlaw the infamous short-handled hoe that crippled generations of workers in the fields."
WHO: Gray Davis, UFW President Arturo Rodriguez, union Secretary-Treasurer Dolores Huerta and hundreds of farm workers.
WHAT: "Human billboard" line urging support for Davis’ candidacy for governor.
WHEN: 12:30-1:30 p.m., Monday, June 1, 1998.
WHERE: Intersection of Avenida Cesar Chavez and Soto in East Los Angeles.
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