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Thank you We sneak We're talking about another american favorite

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Actually i've lived close to the street here in san

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francisco Good old caesar Shot is caesar was basically involved

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in a rape protest slash brewing cop First let me

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set the scene Him grapes were a huge deal Still

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our deal here in the bay area there's A lot

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of vineyards and wine things and the line things It's

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a two part system You know you have the growers

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Then you have the workers and the pickers and the

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people who work the fields and stuff like that So

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during this time back in the nineteen sixties a lot

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of good stuff happened in the nineteen sixties This's crazy

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the della no area growers were not treating the workers

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very well you know and the workers They were all

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very upset about it And they you know wanted change

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They wanted to do something so good Oh cesar chavez

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decided to stand up and do the leader and help

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lead this kind of great revolution Talk about grapes of

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wrath And so they protest And caesar actually united the

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latinos and filipino workers And so they grabbed their picket

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Signs and refused to work And so during that time

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you know there were pro testing this is all happening

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during the nineteen sixties the growers were like you guys

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can't do this what's going on here you know And

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so they decided that they wanted to fight back themselves

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and fight back against the workers by spraying them with

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pesticides and using the tag dogs on the other violent

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tactics that kind of hurt them And so cesar chavez

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got word of this and was like what's going on

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over here hey you can't do this and so he

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devised a plan of his own and he led a

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huge boycott and so at this point in time they

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were like okay you guys want to do what you're

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doing so i'm going to start a grassroots campaign and

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i'm going to get the church's involved but i'm going

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to get the volunteers involved and we're going to boycott

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just grapes period So forget about any grapes being eaten

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during that time and i'm sure that that probably heard

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a lot of people or even picking in the grave

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and even beyond that he was like you know i

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won't even take it a step farther literally and we're

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going to march from delhi no all the way to

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sacramento that's three hundred miles And so they march He

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got everybody together and march three hundred miles and half

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of the way through there he was like you know

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what Let me take a picture of this and closest

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up on twitter were quick because you know my feet

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are just killing me Wait So then after the march

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they help found the united farmers of america front and

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so that was all included within the protest and everything

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of the grapes and would lead up to the march

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So then after the march you know things didn't calm

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down at all you know the growers still weren't given

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in the workers still weren't be treated right and so

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that caesar was like okay well i'm going to switch

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things up yet again you know i'm going to do

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the one two on the road quick it was like

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okay so now we're not only boycotting but i'm also

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going on a fast so not only am i eating

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any grapes will not go eat anything You know what

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That'll show them and so then people were supporting him

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and making sure that he got everything that he needed

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I don't know how he survived I could never fast

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i would i snapped like almost every two hours Anyway

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i would be hurt if i was the fat i

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would last for like an hour and i'd be like

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you know what I'm done I can't do this i'm

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in over my head here back to caesar This is

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not about me This is a bad season Caesar fasted

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and you know the boycott continue And so then finally

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within like the early nineteen seventies the growers just were

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getting weary and tired have you do everything themselves And

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then they realized just how much of a job and

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west you know do the work that the workers were

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doing picking the fields and of the grapes and processing

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them and giving them out to you know the different

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industries at the time or what Not And so then

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they finally gave in and they're like okay you know

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what Well all right let's talk about this we couldn't

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sit at the table and you know we're going where

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We're going to figure something out so they decided to

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sign the contract for the workers to join a union

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and that was huge So then back in that day

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was probably are still early nineteen seventies About ten thousand

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workers got union certified war on the union contract but

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not only that they also got a higher compensation They

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also got health insurance which was huge And then they

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also got safety limits for things like pesticides and other

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chemicals that were being used that in the fields that

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the workers were going to be exposed to you know

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they got safety limits on those and how much they

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could be in contact with them or if they could

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even be in contact with him So this was all

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a huge deal and it was all props to cesar

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shot So all of this happened everything was going great

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and then up until twenty fourteen just a couple of

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years ago i am still confused on why this was

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just happening Now president obama declared that march thirty first

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could be cesar chavez day So kudos sonali president obama

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for recognizing the effort in the work of latinos and

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filipino workers back in the day especially here in the

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bay area But also kudos the cesar chavez for leading

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a huge movement for getting worker's rights for things that

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were being overlooked Like some of the jobs that you

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know people wouldn't normally you know recognize or take into 00:05:07.791 --> [endTime] account that need to be done today

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