Labor leader Dolores Huerta arrested in worker demonstration

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Updated 5:29 pm CDT, Tuesday, August 20, 2019



Photo: CRAIG KOHLRUSS, AP

Labor leader Dolores Huerta joins protesters in crowding the hallway outside the Fresno County Board of Supervisors chambers to argue for better pay for county caregivers, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, in Fresno, Calif. Huerta has been arrested along with several other union members during a protest to demand a raise for Fresno county home care workers. The Fresno Bee reports sheriff deputies put Huerta and the others in plastic handcuffs and removed them Tuesday from the entrance to the Board of Supervisors chambers, where supervisors were holding a closed meeting. (Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee via AP)

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Dolores Huerta, a social activist and labor leader who marched with Cesar Chavez, was arrested Tuesday along with seven other union members during a protest to demand a raise for Fresno county home care workers.

Sheriff deputies put Huerta and the others in plastic handcuffs and removed them Tuesday from the entrance to the Board of Supervisors chambers, where supervisors were holding a closed meeting, the Fresno Bee reports .

Huerta and members of the Service Employees International Union 2015 were chanting and ringing cowbells outside the meeting when they were arrested after failing to disperse.

The union says county caregivers make minimum wage, which is $12, and have not received a raise in 10 years.

The 89-year-old Huerta has been jailed nearly two dozen times for union demonstrating. She co-founded the National Farmworkers Association with Chavez in the 1960s and Huerta created the rallying cry, "Si, Se Puede," used by the nation's poor farmworkers.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Labor-leader-Dolores-Huerta-arrested-in-Fresno-14364836.php

[DURHAM D]

1. Love her. nt

[blm]

2. One of my heroes.

[nini]

3. Shes's a national treasure

Si se puede!

[bluestarone]

4. Thank you Delores!

[TomSlick]

5. Good for her.

Any labor leader that isn't arrested now and then, isn't doing it right.

[George II]

6. 89 years old, amazing!

[iluvtennis]

7. She is the real deal. Got to meet her in San Jose about 8 years ago when my kids attended

spansih immersion school. She came out to hear and support the kids giving speeches on what Cesar Chavez did for the farm workers and the world.

[PatrickforO]

8. Wow! She's 89. I'm surprised the cops didn't taze her.

That was tongue-in-cheek. She's a great activist and great union supporter.

[Gumboot]

9. Dolores is a legend!

The workers' struggle is eternal, and Dolores has been fighting the good fight for >50 years. Long may she run!

For you young 'uns unfamiliar with this amazing lady, more reading here:

http://doloreshuerta.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Huerta