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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a piece that brother Al Rojas has put together to shed some light on whats really going on. Spread this far and wide!Share! And Comment! WHY WORKING IN THE FIELDS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER! By Al Rojas My family and many others spent well over 25 years organizing and eventually founding the original United Farm [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourrealmind.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13935161&amp;post=39&amp;subd=speakyourrealmind&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">Here is a piece that brother Al Rojas has put together to shed some light on whats really going on. Spread this far and wide!Share! And Comment!<strong><br />
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<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;"><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><em>WHY WORKING IN THE FIELDS IS NO LAUGHING                                                 MATTER!</em></strong></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;"><strong>By Al Rojas<strong><em><span style="color:#000000;font-size:small;"><strong><em> </em></strong></span></em></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;"><strong><strong><em><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><em>My family and many others spent well over 25 years organizing and eventually founding the original United Farm Workers Independent Union, IBT based in San Jose California. Led by Oscar Gonzalez, from 1961 to 1983 we were able to organize committees throughout California, specifically in the coastal areas from Northern California down to the Mexican border. It was during that time, in 1966, that the UFW,  with the National Farm Workers association (NFWA) led by César E. Chávez and others and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee AFL-CIO (AWOC),thereafter becoming the United Farm Workers of America (UFWA).</em></strong></span></em></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;"><strong><strong><em><span style="color:#000000;font-size:small;"><strong><em> <span style="color:#c0c0c0;">Since having worked alongside braceros in the vegetable industry in Oxnard, California in the early 1960&#8242;s, I was able to understand the issues involved in foreign contract labor then embodied in   Program (Public Law 78). At that time people like the Hon. Dr. Ernesto Galarza, César E. Chávez, Gilbert Padilla, John Soria, and others opposed this inhumane system of indentured servitude, which did not allow workers protections, the right to decent wages, or the right to decide whether to have a union of their choosing represent their interests. Although the Bracero Program was abolished through the efforts of Galarza, Chávez, Padilla and others, it has now resurfaced as the guest worker program.</span></em></strong></span></em></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;"><strong><strong><em><span style="color:#000000;font-size:small;"><strong><em> <span style="color:#c0c0c0;">Recently, Arturo Rodriquez, president of the United Farm Workers (UFW), was invited to appear on Comedy Central’s Steven Colbert Report to encourage U.S. Workers to take jobs in agriculture. With UFW&#8217;s “Take Our Jobs” Campaign, the Union comes out in support of  UFW&#8217;s proposed federal legislation Ag-Jobs. In essence, Ag-Jobs would allow the recruitment of foreign workers  from countries like Mexico, Thailand, and Vietnam to labor in U.S. fields as &#8220;guest workers&#8221;. In coming out in support of Ag-Jobs, ironically the UFW is taking on a contradictory role, being a union in defense of farm workers’ rights and now acting as agents in the recruitment of foreign agricultural workers for the U.S.Corporate Agri-business-industry. Interestingly enough, while Mr. Rodriquez is asking Americans to take agricultural jobs, he has never been a farm worker himself. Is Mr. Rodriguez<strong><em> </em></strong>prepared to reduce his $90,000 per year salary for a farm worker’s $8.00 per hour wage?</span></em></strong></span></em></strong></strong></span></p>
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<span style="color:#c0c0c0;"><strong><em><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><em>Ag-Jobs which the UFW is pushing, is heavily supported by the National Farm Bureau, California Nisei League, Western Growers Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party and President Obama. The need for an overhaul of our immigration laws is not in question here; the issue is that at a time when unemployment is estimated at between<em> </em>18 to 21% in California&#8217;s Central Valley and there are over 10 million undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. it is a complete farce to mislead the public by promoting and pushing for importing cheap foreign labor through a guest worker (Ag-Jobs) program. What we need are decent wages and working conditions and humane immigration reform. A great example is the recently introduced state bill 1121 by State Sen. Dean Florez, which would allow agricultural workers to earn overtime for more than 8 hours worked in a day and 40 hours in the work week. However, the same corporate growers who are in favor of guest workers testified in opposition to this bill, while continuing to work farm workers overtime at 10 hours per day and over 60 hours per work week. Corporate growers have testified and argued that &#8220;agriculture is very unique&#8221;, in other words, agricultural workers, who are majority Mexicans and other people of color, can be treated with indifference.</em></strong></span></em></strong></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;"><strong><strong><em><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><em>The real issue is organizing and representing workers and the workers’ right to negotiate a union contract. The real issue is legalization for all immigrants who are here to work because their home economies are being devastated by free trade agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA. The real issue is the millions of American workers who are unemployed and struggling to feed their families while the White House bails out Wall Street to the tune of billions of dollars. </em></strong></span></em></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;"><strong><strong><em><span style="color:#000000;font-size:small;"><strong><em> <span style="color:#c0c0c0;">We believe that the UFW as a Union,needs to concentrate on organizing and representing workers. The real issue is decent wages, benefits, safety protections, and the right to unionize, NOT more guest worker programs that exploit workers who are not free to unionize and who are completely in the hands of the employer who is free to hire and fire at will. If agricultural growers paid a decent wage, U.S. workers would apply for those jobs and there would be no need for guest workers.</span></em></strong></span></em></strong></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;"><strong><strong><em><strong><em><strong>Al                                                 Rojas</strong> was a former farm worker, UFW Labor Organizer 1961/1979,SEIU Local 1000 labor leader, and former State Deputy Labor Commissioner.</em></strong></em></strong></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">Julio 2010</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">Mi familia y muchos otros dedicamos unos 25 años en la organización y eventualmente en la fundación de la originaria <strong><em>United Farm Workers Independent Union, IBT</em></strong>(Sindicato Independiente de Trabajadores del Campo) con base en San José, California. Encabezado por <strong><em>Oscar González</em></strong>, entre 1961 y 1983 fuimos capaces de organizar comités en todo California, específicamente en las áreas costeras desde el norte hasta la frontera. Fue durante ese tiempo, en 1966, cuando la <strong><em>UFW-IBT</em></strong> surgió con la NFWA, <strong><em>National Farm Workers Asociation </em></strong>(Asociación Nacional de Trabajadores del Campo) encabezada por <strong><em>César E. Chávez</em></strong> y otros y el Comité de Organización de Trabajadores Agrícolas (<strong><em>Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee AFL-CIO/ AWOC)</em></strong>, eso antes de convertirse en la <strong><em>UFWA</em></strong><strong><em>,</em></strong><strong><em>United Farm Workers of America</em></strong> o <strong><em>Trabajadores del Campo Unidos de América.</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">Habiendo trabajado a comienzos de los años 60 junto a los braceros en la industria de producción de vegetales en Oxnard, California, entendí los problemas involucrados en el contrato de mano de obra extranjera entonces plasmada en el <strong><em>Programa Bracero</em></strong> (Ley Pública 78). En aquel tiempo, gente como el <strong><em>Dr. Ernesto Galarza, César E. Chávez, Gilbert Padilla, John Soria </em></strong>y otros se opusieron a ese sistema inhumano de contrato de trabajos forzados, que no permitía protección a los trabajadores, el derecho a salarios decentes, o el derecho a escoger un sindicato que representara sus intereses. Aunque el Programa Bracero fue abolido a causa de los esfuerzos de Galarza, Chávez, Padilla y otros, ahora ha resurgido como el Programa de Trabajadores Huéspedes.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">Recientemente, <strong><em>Arturo Rodríguez, Presidente de la UFW</em></strong> United Farm Workers (Sindicato de Trabajadores del Campo), fue invitado para aparecer en el programa de Comedy Central, The Colbert Report, para elentar a los trabajadoresestadou nidenses a tomar trabajos agrícolas. Mediante la campaña de la UFW “Toma Nuestros Trabajos”, el sindicato aparece apoyando la propuesta de ley federal hecha por la UFW llamada “AgJobs”.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">En esencia, la propuesta Ag-Jobs permitirá el reclutamiento de trabajadores extranjeros en las comunidades de México, Tailandia y Vietnam para trabajar en los campos de Estados Unidos como “trabajadores huéspedes”. Al aparecer apoyando el programa AgJobs irónicamente la <strong><em>UFW</em></strong> está tomando un papelcontradictorio , ser un sindicato en defensa de los derechos de los trabajadores del campo y ahora actuando como agente de reclutamiento de trabajadores agrícolas extranjeros para las corporaciones estadounidenses de la agroindustria. Muy interesante es el hecho de que mientras el señor Rodríguez llama a los trabajadores estadounidenses a tomar los trabajos agrícolas, él mismo nunca ha sido un trabajador agrícola. ¿El señor Rodríguez está preparado para reducir su salario de $90 mil dólares por año por un salario de trabajador del campo que gana $8 dólares por hora?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">El programa AgJobs empujado por la <strong><em>UFW,</em></strong> cuenta con el fuerte apoyo de la  <strong><em>Corporacion</em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong><strong><em>Nacional de Agricultura (National Farm Bureau), la Liga Nisei de California, Asociación de Granjeros del Oeste, la Cámara Estadounidense de Comercio, el Partido Republicano, el Partido Demócrata y del Presidente Obam</em></strong>a.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">No se trata aquí de hablar de la necesidad de una ley de inmigración integral; el problema es que al mismo tiempo que el desempleo en el Valle Central de California se estima entre el 18 y el 21% y hay un estimado de 10 millones de inmigrantes indocumentados que ya viven en Estados Unidos, es una completa farsa engañar al público promoviendo y empujando la importación de mano de obra barata mediante el Programa de Trabajadores Huéspedes (AgJobs). Lo que necesitamos son salarios y condiciones de trabajo decentes y una reforma de inmigración humana. Un excelente ejemplo es la propuesta de Ley 1121 recientemente introducida por el Senador estatal <strong><em>Dean Florez,</em></strong>que permite a los trabajadores agrícolas ganar horas extras cuando se trabaja más de ocho horas por día o más de 40 horas por semana.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">Sin embargo, las mismas corporaciones agrícolas que están a favor del Programa de Trabajadores Huéspedes testificaron contra esa propuesta de ley, mientras que por otro lado continúan haciendo que sus trabajadores trabajen horas extras (10 horas por día) o más de 60 horas por semana. Las corporaciones agrícolas han testificado y argumentado que “la agricultura es única”, en otras palabras, trabajadores agrícolas, que en su mayoría son mexicanos y otra gente de color, pueden ser tratados con indiferencia.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">El problema real es la organización y la representació n de los trabajadores y el derecho de los trabajadores a negociar un contrato sindical. El problema real es la legalización para todos los inmigrantes que están aquí para trabajar porque las economías de sus países han sido devastadas por los <strong><em>Tratados de Libre Comercio como el TLCAN y CAFTA.</em></strong> El verdadero problema es que millones de trabajadores estadounidenses están desempleados y luchando para proveer parasus familias mientras que la Casa Blanca rescata a Wall Street con miles de millones de dólares.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">Nosotros creemos que la <strong><em>UFW </em></strong>como sindicato necesita concentrarse en la organización y en la representació n de los trabajadores. El verdadero problema está en salarios decentes, beneficios, seguridad y protección laboral, y el derecho a organizarse, <strong><em>No más Programa de Trabajadores Huéspedes</em></strong><strong><em>!</em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong>que explotan a trabajadores que no tienen libertad de organización y que están completamente en las manos de los empleadores que tienen la libertad de despedir a su gusto. S<strong><em>i los patrones agrícolas pagaran un salario decente, los trabajadores  estadounidensespued en aplicar para esos trabajos y no necesitariamos trabajadores huéspedes</em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong><strong><em>!.</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#c0c0c0;"><strong>Al Rojas</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#c0c0c0;"><strong>Al Rojas fue Trabajador Agrícola, Organizador de la UFW</strong><strong>(Sindicato de Trabajadorse del Campo) </strong><strong>entre 1961 y 1979</strong><strong> </strong><strong>,Líder del Local 1000 SEIU y Comisionado</strong><strong> </strong><strong> de Trabajo de</strong><strong> </strong><strong>el Estado de </strong></span><strong><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">California.</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong>So I was at the City Council meeting This past Tuesday when they brought up SB 1070 and taking action as like a boycott as a city. It was a packed room with about 80 speakers wanting to speak. 20 in support of the bill and 60 against it. It angered me to hear the racism of the supporters also out of the 20 speakers for it 17 were &#8220;White&#8221;. But many ignored the issue that the bill is targeting. Just like here in Sacramento and many other cities almost all in AZ if you are arrested and taken to Jail you will be screened on your legal status and if you&#8217;re here undocumented you will be turned over to ICE.Not to  mention the  federal funding jails receive for housing them. I somewhat don&#8217;t agree with this policy but I guess it might be fair to a right-winger.<br />
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<p><strong>But SB1070 will make it mandatory for law enforcement agencies to pull anyone over who they might suspect being here &#8220;Illegally&#8221; and now I ask myself &#8220;How the fuck can you tell someone is here Illegally without using skin color!?&#8221; Please comment and let me know!I want to hear an answer on this! AZ went back and amended the bill but its all bullshit we know the intentions of it! And that is why people are mobilizing against it!</strong><br />
<strong>We are not stupid and corporate media FAILS on reporting what the bill really means! It violates civil rights and the 4th amendment! Many supporters say,&#8221; Well if you&#8217;re not an illegal it shouldnt matter&#8221;. And my response is FUCK YOU! I will not be ok with being pulled over and intimidated and be asked to provide proof of legal status! First off i never carry and will not carry my passport!One its bullshit two,I lose shit and i wont be paying $100 for a replacement not to mention it cost close $500 to replace a &#8220;green card&#8221; if lost or stolen why carry it! and Another reason is I will get pulled over but billy over there wont! WTF!? I am not ok with that!Thats racial profiling!</strong></p>
<p><strong>If these so-called true americans care about Immigration they would support the repeal of NAFTA and other trade agreements that let huge US corporations destroy small businesses and exploit workers! But lets save that for another blog!lol</strong></p>
<p><strong>In Maricopa county (Phoenix) Sheriff Joe is already getting away with this! Now this bill is expanding it throughout the state! We need to stand in solidarity with Arizona and say no but most importantly say FUCK SB1070!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Brewer said that she doesn&#8217;t know what an &#8220;Illegal looks like&#8221; but she knows &#8220;When she see&#8217;s one!&#8221; WTF! Please!Please!Please! Comment and let me know what an illegal look like without using race!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Oh and before i forget but the city of Sacramento voted on writing up a resolution that will oppose SB1070 and boycott Arizona!It will be signed in the next week or two!</strong></p>
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