Labor legend Dolores Huerta honored by San Jose City College

Added December 1st, 2009

Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO, was honored at a reception Monday, Nov. 30, by San Jose City College, which renamed its labor studies program in her honor.

The school renamed its labor studies program the Dolores Huerta Labor and Community Studies Institute as part of an effort to broaden its curriculum to include community organizing and social justice.

Huerta, 79, a longtime union and political activist as well as mother, lobbyist, educator, feminist and champion of immigrant rights, made history in 1966 when she negotiated the first collective bargaining agreement with an agricultural enterprise, a contract between the UFW and Schenley Wine Co. The contract was reached a year after she led the UFW's national grape boycott.

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