On Cesar Chavez Day, Recognizing Farm Workers

Please don't speak with food in your mouth. Cesar Chavez did more to improve the working conditions for agricultural workers than anyone alive. Things like port-a-potties in the fields so that the workers didn't have to defecate by the vegetables that you are eating right now that would then have a much greater risk of having the bacteria that causes food poisoning in it. Or like putting soap and water out with the prot-a-potties so that the workers could was their hands after using the facilities to keep from spreading the same bacteria. Or having drinking water supplied to the workers within 1/4 of a mile from where they are working so that they didn't fall over and die from heat stroke. I could go on, but based upon the snarky tone of the statement above, you're not really interested, you just have some other axe to grind.
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On Cesar Chavez Day, Recognizing Farm Workers

I was an agricultural worker attorney before I retired. I had the great honor of meeting Dolores Huerta at a national conference in Atlanta. Cesar Chavez's work was a great step forward. for the abused and maligned farmworkers, most of whom are Hispanic and many of whom are brought into this country illegally by coyotes who are paid by the large growers across the US. The reason they bring the workers in illegally, even though there are legal channels to bring them in, is that they don't want them to complain about the horrific working conditions so they threaten them that if they complain, they will call "Migracion" (US Customs and Immigration) which will effectively kill any hope of coming into the US legally since a deportation frequently imposes a 10 year or, for repeat violators, permanent bar to a valid work permit in the US.

Cesar Chavez did so much for Hispanic farmworkers that it would be nice to have even just a day of national recognition for him, if a holiday is not possible. I applaud your sentiment and support your crusade.
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