Iconic labor leader Dolores Huerta dies aged 96 in California

Huerta co-founded United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez, improving pay and conditions for farm workers Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Dolores Huerta, an iconic 1960s labor union leader and civil rights activist, died on Wednesday in California at the age of 96, her family said. Huerta was co-founder with Cesar Chavez, another veteran unionist and political activist, of the United Farm Workers union (UFW), which was credited with improving pay and conditions for agricultural workers through a series strikes, boycotts and protests in the 1960s and 1970s. Continue…

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