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Cesar Chavez Would be Working for the Right to Organize Today

Jobs with Justice and the Labor Committee for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) organized a celebration of Cesar Chavez’ birthday at UAW 848 union hall in Grand Prairie, Texas, on the afternoon of March 28. Speakers explained that they were also committing themselves to fight for the Employee Free Choice “Right to Organize” Act because it was exactly what Chavez would have done if he were alive today.

On the program were:

• State Representative Roberto Alonzo, head of the Dallas Democratic Delegation to Austin
• Johnnie Durham, Civil Rights Chair for UAW Local 848
• J.R. Flores, President of Texas LCLAA and of UAW Local 276 at General Motors in Arlington
• Gene Lantz, Organizer of North Texas Jobs with Justice
• Drew McGuire, Organizer for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1000 in Grapevine
• Felipe Mendez, Organizer for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 540 in Dallas
• Romeo Munoz, State President of Community Action Program, political arm of the United Auto Workers
• Elida Perez, Bilingual program coordinator for the Tarrant County Elections Administration
  

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