Frank Bardacke

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Frank Bardacke

Frank Bardacke was a farmworker in the fields of the Salinas Valley for six seasons in the 1970s. He published an 800-page history of the Farm Workers union: Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers.

The UFWOC organizing committee was established in 1966. The union was granted a charter as an independent union in 1972. It is now 43 years later. When will the workers be ready?

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