La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for March 28, 2010

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.