![]() When Chavez abruptly resigned from the Community Service Organization in 1962, because it refused to organize farmworkers, Padilla was there. Rarely is it mentioned that Gilbert Padilla, a trusted Chavez lieutenant, was also at the genesis of the movement. Unfortunately, the article erred in propagating the widely held myth that only Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta founded the United Farm Workers. The proposed legislation would provide a pathway to permanent residency and stabilize wages. The Bee last month published an article on the Affordable and Secure Food Act (ASFA) aimed at promoting the availability of farm labor. Padilla, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta are recognized as the co-founders of the farm worker movement that led to the creation and establishment of the United Farm Workers union. ![]() Gilbert Padilla, in his Fresno home in November 2021, holds a photograph of him speaking at an farm labor rally in Oxnard, circa 1976.
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