![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The vast majority of the state’s seasonal farm labor force, estimated at 350,000 to 450,000, do not belong to a union. It now reports 10,248 members nationwide, about 85% of them working under collective bargaining agreements, according to U.S. boasted a membership of about 80,000 in the early 1970s. He married Chavez’s daughter, Linda, in 1974, and took over leadership after Chavez died in 1993. Rodriguez, 69, a native of San Antonio, came up through the organizing ranks of the UFW after joining the national grape boycotts as a college student. ![]()
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