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Mhm. Yeah. Come on gigi. Yes. Yeah. All in dispatch procedure in his contract and they have to be dispatched out of his local office before they can go to work. And uh he was going to the fields with where the people were working and saying uh

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you go picket safeway, you go pick at this grower. And if you didn't why those people were assessed anywhere from $25 up to as high as $200. They had their dispatch slips jerk so they were unemployed. Consequently we found many of the grower or of the

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workers who had worked for a grower for 2025 years unemployed and they didn't want that. Now our contract has all underwear. Yeah. Oh but I'm here with the president. No no. You know. But are you staying then his uncle Without a union anymore? They got

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a taste of it and they're gonna fight for it. Well there are a lot of people who better shape than we were in 1965 when we started to struggle in better shape than we were Even a day before we signed the contract in 1970. They have

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the contracts and we have the people and it's just a matter of time, we don't feel that uh Oh God. Community. Wait man, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm 24. Yeah. Back ST Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Talking about.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you gotta get Yeah. Yeah, yeah, wow. Yeah, because I met with the with Brother George Meany and the committee that was set up by the council to deal with the teamsters and

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uh game a reporter was taking place and and they were very concerned, very interested in what's taking place in the report and the struggle and so forth. But also extremely concerned with the teamsters. Uh ah continuing, you know, taking their contracts and and writing the union

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trying to destroy it and so forth. And they were very positive and we were very, very happy with the outcome of the meeting. Are you, are you satisfied with support otherwise that they've been giving you? It's very great. So, yes, very good support. We have more

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support from now and we had back when we started, you know, How about support from other outside of the grape growers in this area yet with any proposals? Have you talked to them at all? We have served notice last week on the 29 growers whose contract

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expired on July the 29 that we represented. And they seem to come that we did have the petitions representing the majority, overwhelming majority of their field workers, and then that we would be serving these petitions on the individual growers and after we had completed that, then

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we would get in touch with them