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most of the growers with the agreement. I think we'll have one union to contend with instead of two. And this may be as far as your concern. Is that good? I think it has some good points. And some of those I'd have to say is that

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we won't be having competing unions, We won't have one union trying to play leapfrog in its contract offerings with another union as they try to entice workers and try to be ahead of each other. Do you think that negotiation is there for negotiations to go along

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on a more even keel because of the merger? What about the uh, the charge that spike? Can you pick it up? Okay. All right. Well, see that's the whole just right. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah, That's right. Got it. Oh, okay. Right. Right. Mhm. I don't know. Yeah.

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All right. We all set to go. Okay. Easy guys. How's that? I want to for those of you. There's also a big thank you Bill, I would like to welcome here this morning. I think I realized why we have such a good turn out. I'm just

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going to introduce Simmons. Yeah. Um, it was seemed impossible at the time we started talking, but we stuck with it and I think it was to the credit on both sides were able to go to the painful steps that had to be gone through to be

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able to come to an agreement which both the teams within our union recognized even before we started negotiating that the, the Bennett, you take this advantage to call upon the grower community in California to give up their anti union fight and to realize that the time

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has come for them to recognize the rights of workers to have a union and to join with us that we can together uh, enhance the industry and also bring about more and better benefits for the farm workers. Thank you. I like to have our general present.

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Just said, if you let him stand up, sure Carolina. Mhm. Thank you. You can't stay here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Really? Okay. You can raise your hands. Did you consider? Wait a minute. Just broke. Yes. What about some of the key players? This it's a five year

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agreement covering the 13 Western states of the Western constant teamsters. It is spells out the so called well, honor as you know, or something, you know, that under the California law they are B and it spells out as to whether they are and what we saw

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commerce or not, out on commerce and the commercial aspect, our energies won't be dissipated in fighting one another. We'll be able to concentrate in in carrying out the organizing drive. And if need be fighting the growers to get contracts and to build a union, we're going

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to be able to have Cooperation with two unions, particularly the whole question of legislation. And so that the benefits are going to be great. Uh, it means that the resources that have been spending off all these years fighting each other can then be now accumulated to

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carry out the they fight against the growers in the organization of the working way. The same way that you do about this agreement. I can't speak for the teams in our, in our case, they feel pretty good. Sure, what happens? Yeah. Yellow is the boy has

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not made a decision yet two years ago. The Well, I'm not speaking for Texas. That is not part of the 13 Western states. I haven't changed my mind as far as the farm workers a concern, Cesar said, and I won't necessarily say the heat of battle

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representing our organization, like he representing his, make comments at times, what we think is for the benefit of the workers that we represent. And I don't think any of you here can say, and I've heard a few questions back and forth about the attitude of the

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growers and what we have gained and whether CAesar's now is going to get support, but he's not the underdog. That isn't the case. As far as Cesar Chavez is concerned to his organization, I don't think he's ever been the underdog, I think he's been very flamboyant

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in his positions and has done a great many things as far as the farm workers and the benefit of the farm workers are concerned. I think the beneficiaries of this agreement that is came to pass here today. Well, len I think relief to the growers due

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to the fact that none of you and as you said that, I have said, many of you have said that a problem that we was creating for the industry was we was having a leap frog situation when caesar's would get something for his people. We went

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out and tried to get something more, and when we got something more, he went out and got something more.