César Chavez and Dolores Huerta led a movement that won better wages and conditions for farmworkers

Dolores Huerta and the late César Chavez are both labor rights icons credited with leading a movement that pushed growers to negotiate for better wages and working conditions for farmworkers. Their legacies are getting new attention after allegations emerged that Chavez, who died in 1993, sexually abused Huerta and other women and girls. Several celebrations … Read more

César Chavez Day events renamed, postponed or canceled after sexual abuse allegations

Many of the upcoming celebrations and holidays honoring the late farmworker labor leader César Chavez are being renamed, postponed or completely canceled in the wake of allegations that he sexually abused women and girls while at the helm of the United Farm Workers Union. Labor rights activist Dolores Huerta revealed this week she was among … Read more

Women allege labor rights icon Cesar Chavez sexually assaulted them

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Labor leader Dolores Huerta says she was assaulted by Cesar Chavez as allegations of abuse emerge

Labor leader Dolores Huerta appeared to corroborate allegations of abuse against young women or minors by the late Cesar Chavez on Wednesday, writing in a statement that she had two non-consensual “sexual encounters” with him that ended in pregnancy. The allegations of abuse by Chavez, himself a union and civil rights leader, were first reported … Read more

Civil rights icon Cesar Chavez abused girls and women, according to explosive new allegations

The late Cesar Chavez, one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders, has been accused of sexually abusing girls and women. Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta said in a statement that Chavez, her co-founder of what became the United Farm Workers, manipulated and pressured her into sex once and, in a second encounter, forced … Read more