1985–1987
Labor / Latina organizingBook sources
Watsonville cannery workers sustain an eighteen-month strike
Watsonville, California; predominantly Mexican women cannery workers
Cannery workers in Watsonville struck in September 1985 against concessions demanded by their employers. Predominantly Mexican women sustained the organizing through an eighteen-month dispute. The workers’ return in 1987 followed a campaign that also expanded their public leadership in the community.
Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.
Context / qualification
The strike’s start and resolution belong to different years. The university exhibit supports this chronology; it does not establish that the settlement restored every lost benefit or ended insecure employment.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, chapter 22, pp. 614–616; supplied print pages, edition/year unidentified
- UC Santa Cruz Library: Watsonville On Strike exhibit description ↗