Bancroft Obreros Unidos Strikers
| Elevated view of 150 workers rallying as a part of Obreros Unidos (United Workers) protest against poor working conditions of migrant farm workers in the State. They are waiting for the results of the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC) hearing. WERC reaffirmed that processors are de facto employers, and orders union election after hearing in Waushara Courthouse with Chairman Morris Slavney. Strikes, rallies and marches in Wisconsin were organized by the Obreros Unidos, an independent farm worker labor union effort in the 1960s. Huelguistas de Obreros Unidos en Bancroft, Wisconsin Vista elevada de 150 trabajadores manifestando como parte de la protesta de Obreros Unidos contra las bajas condiciones de los trabajadores agrícolas emigrantes en el estado. Están esperando los resultados de la audiencia de la comisión estatal de relaciones laborales o Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC). WERC reafirmo que productores eran empleadores de facto y ordenó una elección sindical después de una audiencia en el tribunal o Waushara Courthouse con el presidente Morris Slavney. Las huelgas, manifestaciones, y marchas en Wisconsin fueron organizadas por Obreros Unidos, un esfuerzo independiente del sindicato de trabajadores agrícolas durante los años 1960. |
| Image ID: | 92690 |
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| Creation Date: | 08 24 1967 |
| Creator Name: | Giffey, David |
| City: | Bancroft |
| County: | Portage |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | South Madison oral history project and migrant farmworker photographs, 1966-1971, 1999-2000 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | digital file |
| Original Format Number: | 1114000080 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5669 X 3387 pixels |
| Information about Wisconsin migrant labor and grape boycotts from: Salas, Jesus and Giffey, David. "Lucha por la justicia: Movimiento de los trabajadores migrantes en Wisconsin = Struggle for Justice: The Migrant Farm Worker Labor Movement in Wisconsin." David Giffey, Photos by. Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Labor History Society; 1998. 15 p., and the Wisconsin Labor History website. |
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