[staytrue]

The farm workers union has been a non factor for decades.

In fact, private sector unions in general have been a non factor for at least one decade.

A luddite was a follower of ludd who started a movement for workers to destroy the steam engines that were putting them out of a job.

Common usage of the word luddite is someone out of touch with the present day circumstances.

Someone who thinks chavez or the farm workers union is relevant today, is in my opinion someone who is out of touch with present day reality.

[Ben Mugged]

The unions in California have a death grip on the legislature and are pushing a socialist agenda that I have fought for years. I have been on the front lines fighting the unions in California. When Chavez died in 1993 the UFW became as corrupt as all other unions and lost their vision and direction. While they may be irrelevant in a political sense, they are still a metaphor for the plight of the farmworker and you still see their recruiting flag flown in the fields. Missing in the illegal immigration rights marches was the red flag with black eagle. I have not followed the UFW since my father-in-law died in 2004 so I readily admit my knowledge is somewhat dated. My question however is still pertinent.

Why is the UFW, still a metaphor for the plight of the farmworker, so obvious in it's absence from the illegal immigration discussions?