UPDATED SCHEDULE
March details for Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday
Sen. Ortiz, Villaraigosa march Saturday Salinas Valley workers, Lt. Gov. on trek Sunday Lawmakers join Capitol fast Monday
Organizers of the United Farm Workers’ 150-mile, 10-day "March for the Governor’s Signature" from Merced to Sacramento–led by UFW President Arturo Rodriguez and union co-founder Dolores Huerta–released details for Friday through Monday. Farm workers are marching to obtain Gov. Gray Davis’ signature on SB 1736, by state Senate leader John Burton (D-San Francisco), which would grant them mediation and arbitration to win their first union contracts with growers who refuse to bargain in good faith.
* Joining the trek Saturday will be state Sen. Deborah Ortiz (D-Sacramento) and former Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa, whom Gov. Davis endorsed last year for mayor of Los Angeles. Ortiz will stay Friday night with a family in Turlock like the other marchers. Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante will also be there Sunday morning.
6 p.m. rally and end of day’s march at Donnelly Park, 600 Pedras St. at Dells east of Hwy. 99 in Turlock. Saturday, Aug. 17, 2002—Turlock to Modesto
7 a.m. mass, 7:30 a.m. march starts, both at Donnelly Park in Turlock.
6 p.m. rally and end of day’s march at Cesar Chavez Park, 615 Sierra Dr. at 3rd in Modesto. Sunday, Aug. 18, 2002—Modesto to Manteca
7 a.m. mass, 7:30 a.m. march starts, both at Cesar Chavez Park, 615 Sierra Dr. at 3rd in Modesto.
6 p.m. rally and end of day’s march in Manteca at a location to be determined.
March details for Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday
Sen. Ortiz, Villaraigosa march Saturday Salinas Valley workers, Lt. Gov. on trek Sunday Lawmakers join Capitol fast Monday
Organizers of the United Farm Workers’ 150-mile, 10-day "March for the Governor’s Signature" from Merced to Sacramento–led by UFW President Arturo Rodriguez and union co-founder Dolores Huerta–released details for Friday through Monday. Farm workers are marching to obtain Gov. Gray Davis’ signature on SB 1736, by state Senate leader John Burton (D-San Francisco), which would grant them mediation and arbitration to win their first union contracts with growers who refuse to bargain in good faith.
* Joining the trek Saturday will be state Sen. Deborah Ortiz (D-Sacramento) and former Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa, whom Gov. Davis endorsed last year for mayor of Los Angeles. Ortiz will stay Friday night with a family in Turlock like the other marchers. Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante will also be there Sunday morning.
* Arriving at the march Sunday in
Modesto will be a busload of Salinas Valley farm workers, many from D’Arrigo Brothers, the huge vegetable company where workers have been fruitlessly negotiating a union contract since voting for the UFW in 1975.* Twenty nine legislators–led by state Sen. Martha Escutia (D-Norwalk)–will join farm workers fasting on Monday at a vigil on the state Capitol’s north steps. Many of them will attend an
11 a.m. Monday news conference at the vigil site. The vigil will run 24 hours a day starting Monday. Friday, Aug. 16, 2002—Livingston to Turlock6 p.m. rally and end of day’s march at Donnelly Park, 600 Pedras St. at Dells east of Hwy. 99 in Turlock. Saturday, Aug. 17, 2002—Turlock to Modesto
7 a.m. mass, 7:30 a.m. march starts, both at Donnelly Park in Turlock.
6 p.m. rally and end of day’s march at Cesar Chavez Park, 615 Sierra Dr. at 3rd in Modesto. Sunday, Aug. 18, 2002—Modesto to Manteca
7 a.m. mass, 7:30 a.m. march starts, both at Cesar Chavez Park, 615 Sierra Dr. at 3rd in Modesto.
6 p.m. rally and end of day’s march in Manteca at a location to be determined.