Reflections_On_Cesar_Chavz_And_The_Labor_Movement

Reflections On Cesar Chavz And The Labor Movement It’s amazing how much can change in just five years; although I’m not a rich man now, I am so much more hopeful and happy than I was back in 1965, before the Great Grape Boycott. When they grow up, my grandchildren will never believe the terrible conditions me and their grandmother lived in, and so perhaps they’ll never understand how far we’ve really come. In 1960, I was already married and had a child. The only way I could make ends meet was to follow the grape harvest and pick grapes, but the work was so much harder than it sounds. Back then, I only made ninety cents per hour, plus ten cents for every basket I picked. I didn’t mind having to work so hard every day, if the living conditions had only been a little better. I had to pay $2.00 per day just to live in a tiny little shack with no electricity or water, and since money was so tight, my 10 year old had to illegally work in the fields. I had resigned myself that life wasn’t going to get much better than this, and comforted myself with the knowledge that at least this was workers, grape, work, much, day, conditions, cesar, better, strike, rights, per, myself, just, join, hour, growers, every, chavez, cents, boycott, agricultural, working, through, terrible, people, one, once, never, little, life, human, grapes, delano, been, basic, back