Chávez, Cesar

1. An American labor leader of the twentieth century. In the 1960s, Chávez organized food harvesters in California, many of them Mexican-Americans like himself, into the United Farm Workers. This labor union led nationwide boycotts against the table grape industry and the lettuce industry in the 1960s and 1970s. Chávez is known for his commitment to nonviolent resistance.

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In 2006, when Nunez was Assembly speaker, he encouraged De León to run in a district that included Northeast Los Angeles against Christine Chavez, Cesar Chavez’s granddaughter.

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Many would rather work for a restaurant, but when forced to pick among the apps, Chavez, Cesar, and others choose Relay, which they say pays better and more consistently than its piecework peers.

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At the end of the day, Paul Chávez, César’s son and the César Chávez Foundation president, found himself thinking about another birthday celebration for his father and of that famous bust.

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Sanders stood under a broiling sun in Delano as Federico Chavez, Cesar’s nephew, pointed to the sites of struggles past and current.

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