A Lack of Democracy in the United Farm Workers Gave Chavez Immunity By Jane Slaughter- Labor Notes- April 6, 2028 In 2011 Frank Bardacke published an 800-page history of the Farm Workers union: Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers https://www.versobooks.com/products/2213-trampling-out-the-vintage?srsltid=AfmBOoqAzkyW5ZqOZ30DyFexa0xGhHncqvUP4xRzGkSsdNG08MCVc4Gn. It opened many eyes to the reasons the UFW became a shadow of its former self. Bardacke starts the book with an epigraph, a quote from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “O what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down...” Bardacke was a farmworker in the fields of the Salinas Valley for six seasons in the 1970s. When he decided to write his book years later, he went back to his carpool co-workers, finding them still at work in the fields. In 1994, the union had been thoroughly defeated for nearly 10 years—but his old friends were afraid even to mention its name where the foreman might hear. I interviewed Frank Bardacke after a New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html investigation https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html revealed evidence that Chavez had sexually abused young girls who were volunteering with the union, and the allegation that he had also assaulted union co-founder Dolores Huerta. –Jane Slaughter Full at: https://www.labornotes.org/2026/04/lack-democracy-united-farm-workers-gave-chavez-immunity
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