§ 1.1.10.2 ARIZONA'S ANSWER TO THE FARMWORKERS.

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§ 1.1.10.2. Arizona's Answer to the Farmworkers. In the mid-1960s and early 1970s, the United Farm Worker's Union, under the stewardship of Cesar Chavez, began to press for better working conditions and benefits for migratory farmworkers. Growers and farmers, chiefly in the Yuma area, angered by the economic damage resulting from the farmworkers' organized consumer boycotts, chafed at the thought of having to deal with a union of migratory workers. In 1972, at the behest of the growers, the legislature passed the Agricultural Employment Relations Act.223 Although the Act recognized the right of farmworkers to organize and the duty of growers to bargain with union representatives, it granted to the grower the right to "hire, suspend, discharge or transfer employees in accordance with his judgment."224 The Act also declared it illegal for farmworkers to, inter alia, strike or engage in secondary boycott activities directed against growers.225 The Act was declared unconstitutional by the district...

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