La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for March 28, 2010
March 27, 2010
March 29, 2010
Transcript:
Support a national Cesar Chavez holiday Sign: 100% meat tacos "el taco cart guy" Sign: Free vegan taco special just bring in your own vegetables that you picked in the hot sun for pennies a day!
Yukoneric about 14 years ago
The weeding was the bad part. Machines dug up the sugar beets. No wonder gringos didn’t do the work for that kind of pay.
sherpafree about 14 years ago
The humor is not lost on me hijo. Giving Americans a national holiday (yet another day off) in honor of Cesar Chavez is good bit of a “jalapeno-biting satirical observation”; happy April Fools day hijo.
Dirty Dragon about 14 years ago
I’m still waiting for those $50/hour lettuce picking jobs…
pschearer Premium Member about 14 years ago
As I remember it, once Chavez got the California table grape pickers organized, the growers started switching to machine-harvested wine grapes.
It’s true that surviving grape pickers made more money, but as is always the case with union-imposed pay hikes, it is at increased cost to the farmers, the public, and most of all, to the workers whose jobs disappeared.