Wisconsin: Advocating for Blue Collar Workers - By Victoria Cepeda (Pa'lante Latino)

In 1966, Mexican-American civil rights activist Jesús Salas founded “Obreros Unidos,”an independent farm labor union to improve working conditions for migrant workers who traveled from Texas to Wisconsin every year since the 1920s. Today, Winsconsin has about 50 unions of varied denominations and affiliations ... read more