Union negotiators told workers on Saturday that the approved 3-yr. contract was the best they could get. The union was Pueblo Steelworkers Local 2102, representing 1,600 production and maintenance workers. They hoped that better business conditions for the CF&I would lead to a better contract in the future.
Photo of Pilar Media, Ernest Media, and Liz Garcia at the farm workers strike
Photo of farm work strikers marching to Denver with signs
Photo of people marching to Denver holding a poster of Mother Mary
Photo of striking farm workers and supporters marching from Pueblo to Denver
Photo of men in black berets gathered for the march to Denver, which started at the Dogpatch Huelga Office.
Photo of march to protest sale of grapes picked by non-union workers at the Safeway on 8th Street in Pueblo, 1970?
Photo of a picket in front of employment office for the farm workers, protesting so people would not take work on farms. Louie Lugs is one of the protesters.
Manuel Diaz being interviewed in 1978 about his involvement in starting a representative union for CF&I workers. Among some of the experiences he talks about is some violence experienced by workers at the hands of the CF&I company.
Mexican American workers of Pueblo Public Metals Co. have been on strike for four weeks backed up by unions. The strike which began on September 8, 1976 has held out this long because the company refuses to sit to work out better wages which is what workers like Wilfred Espinosa, who has worked there 17 years, is asking for.
