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The Watsonville cannery strike
1985
Watsonville, California
Cesar_chavez.jpg: Joel Levine derivative work: Work permit ( · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Frozen-food workers, most of them Mexican-American women, walked out over a wage cut and stayed out for eighteen months, through winter, through the loss of their health insurance, through a company bankruptcy filing. They won, and in doing so turned a company town's labour politics and then its city council over to the people who had done the walking.
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