Video Shows Union Leader Dolores Huerta Bullying Farmworker

Posted by Matt Patterson on Friday, July 17th, 2015 at 11:25 am - Permalink

UFW co-founder and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner admits to pushing anti-union worker

 

For Immediate Release

July 17, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Exclusive video obtained by The Center for Worker Freedom (CWF) shows Dolores Huerta bullying a farmworker at a party in Sacramento. 

The United Farm Workers union (UFW) co-founder was attempting to prevent farmworker Silvia Lopez from meeting Governor Jerry Brown at a party in Sacramento on June 24.

Lopez has spearheaded a decertification of the UFW at Fresno-based Gerawan Farming. The Gerawan workers voted to decertify the union in November 2013. The state labor board (ALRB), however, in collusion with union officials, refuses to count their votes and has attempted to unilaterally impose a collective bargaining contract on the farm.

Huerta founded the UFW in 1965 with Cesar Chavez, and served as the union's Vice President until 1999. She is an avowed socialist who holds an honorary chair at the Democratic Socialists of America and who openly praised Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.

Writing for Forbes, CWF executive director Matt Patterson notes, "Huerta is a lifelong and ardent supporter of parties and regimes that use oppression as a political weapon."

Patterson added in a statement, "Union bosses have been suppressing workers’ rights and speech for decades. Huerta physically pushing Lopez away from her Governor is only the latest and most visceral example of that."

The footage can be viewed here.

The Center for Worker Freedom is a special project of Americans For Tax Reform. For more information or to arrange an interview please contact John Kartch at 202-785-0266 or by email at jkartch@atr.org. 

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