The United Farm Workers of America ( UFWA ) ( Spanish: ) is a labor union created from the merging of two groups, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee ( AWOC ) led by Filipino organizer Larry Itliong, and the National Farm Workers Association ( NFWA ) led by César Chávez.

This union changed from a workers ' rights organization that helped workers get unemployment insurance to that of a union of farmworkers almost overnight, when the NFWA went out on strike in support of the mostly Filipino farmworkers of the AWOC in Delano, California who had previously initiated a grape strike on September 8, 1965.

The first grocery stores targeted by the NFWA grape boycott were on King Road.

As High Voltage, he teamed with Venom to claim the New Frontier Wrestling Association ( NFWA ) Tag Team titles in March 1995.

A month later, High Voltage defeated the Willow for the NFWA Championship.

The contestants in this economic struggle are the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee ( AWOC ) of the AFL-CIO and the agricultural employers of the State.

This past year the pattern has been different: The organizing program had the full support of the AFL-CIO, which supplied staff and money to the AWOC, as well as moral support.

The AWOC has been able to employ the traditional weapons of labor -- the strike and the picket line -- with considerable success, particularly in the area of wages.

The matter got into the courts this way: One of the early strikes called by the AWOC was at the DiGiorgio pear orchards in Yuba County.

He was essentially a theorist, and his great merit lay in the capacity of taking over experimental work that others had carried out — without always adequately recognizing their claims — and by a rigorous logical procedure, reinforced by his own quantitative experiments, of expounding the true explanation of the results.

Other countries, such as Australia, are recognizing and moving to correct deficiencies in their BME education.

This ability would enable a creature to recognize the likelihood that their perceptions are deceiving them ( e. g. that water in the distance may be a mirage ) and behave accordingly, and it could also facilitate the manipulation of others by recognizing how things appear to them for both cooperative and devious ends.

Although their work was controversial, the American Apollo Moon landings, which were in progress at the time, provided supportive evidence by recognizing the rate of impact cratering on the Moon.

Two of Toussaint's chief lieutenants, Dessalines and Christophe, recognizing their untenable situation, held separate parleys with the invaders, and agreed to transfer their allegiance.

It has moved from a body of laws governing states to recognizing the importance of individuals and their rights within the international legal framework.

Invoking " science " and " realism ", the two men derided their " philanthropic " predecessors for believing in human equality and for not recognizing that mankind was divided into superior and inferior races.

Mauritania, under its new government, immediately returned to the table to meet Polisario's goals, declaring full peace, a troop retreat, relinquishing their portion of Western Sahara and recognizing the Front as the Sahrawi people's sole representative.

The subfield of NLP devoted to learning approaches is known as Natural Language Learning ( NLL ) and its conference CoNLL and peak body SIGNLL are sponsored by ACL, recognizing also their links with Computational Linguistics and Language Acquisition.

Lapworth, recognizing that the fossil fauna in the disputed strata were different from those of either the Cambrian or the Silurian periods, realized that they should be placed in a period of their own.

Many warlords have participated in an allegiance program, recognizing the legitimacy of the Government of Afghanistan, and surrendering their soldiers and weapons, though some of their subsequent actions have led to serious questions about their true loyalties.

The video featured members of Public Enemy taking out their frustrations on politicians in the states not recognizing the holiday.

The Germans were off to a faster start in recognizing film ’ s value as a tool of perpetuating pro-German sentiment in the US through the The American Correspondent Film Company as well as on the front lines with their mobile cinemas, which showed feature films and newsreels.

Not until the 1890s did scholars outside Scandinavia begin seriously to reassess the achievements of the Vikings, recognizing their artistry, technological skills, and seamanship.

Not until the 1890s did scholars outside Scandinavia begin to seriously reassess the achievements of the Vikings, recognizing their artistry, technological skills and seamanship.

* Ensure the sustainable use of resources and balance competing uses of coastal and marine ecosystems, recognizing both their human and natural components.

* March 22 – The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty issues the Edict of Toleration recognizing all the Roman Catholic Church, not just the Jesuits, and legalizing missions and their conversion of Chinese people.

Invoking " science " and " realism ", the two men derided their " philanthropic " predecessors for believing in human equality and for not recognizing that mankind was divided into superior and inferior races.

SAS interprets the Second Amendment as recognizing the pre-existing natural right of individuals to bear arms as tools of self-defense, and promotes gun safety and marksmanship among their members.

She discovered a kinship with other students at the American school she attended in nearby Vicenza, recognizing that their backgrounds and feelings of separation were similar to her own, and for the first time in her life began to form lasting friendships.

As a result of this distortion and disguise, the dream's real significance is concealed: dreamers are no more capable of recognizing the actual meaning of their dreams than hysterics are able to understand the connection and significance of their neurotic symptoms.

" Although heterogeneous, the major CAM systems have many common characteristics, including a focus on individualizing treatments, treating the whole person, promoting self-care and self-healing, and recognizing the spiritual nature of each individual.

The common law, as applied in civil cases ( as distinct from criminal cases ), was devised as a means of compensating someone for wrongful acts known as torts, including both intentional torts and torts caused by negligence, and as developing the body of law recognizing and regulating contracts.

Individuals can better cope with organized persuasion by recognizing the common ways whereby communication is intensified or downplayed, so as to counter doublespeak.

The best index fossils are common, easy-to-identify at species level, and have a broad distribution — otherwise the likelihood of finding and recognizing one in the two sediments is minor.

Roger Masters in The Nature of Politics describes the primordial explanation of the origin of ethnic and national groups as recognizing group attachments that are thought to be unique, emotional, intense, and durable because they are based upon kinship and promoted along lines of common ancestry.

The best index fossils are common, easy-to-identify at species level, and have a broad distribution — otherwise the likelihood of finding and recognizing one in the two sediments is minor.

* In the first diplomatic contact between Rome and Parthia, Sulla meets with a Parthian envoy, resulting in the parties recognizing Euphrates as a common frontier.

A 6 / 8 March can be distinguished immediately by recognizing its common " da-bah-da-bah " or " DA-da-DA-da " sound.

" They propose two ways: recognizing common configurations of stones and their positions and concentrating on local battles.

There is usually more than one elder in an assembly and although officially naming and recognizing " eldership " is common to Open Brethren ( cf.

They are also common in speaker recognition, which is the task of recognizing people from their voices.

A common Ngāpuhi interpretation of the Declaration of the United Tribes is that the British government was simply recognizing Maori independence and putting the world on check, merely re-asserting sovereignty that had existed from " time immemorial ".

While recognizing the very pluralistic and creative elements of ancient Gnostic teachings they are seen as embracing a set of common assumptions which form the core of the Gnostic tradition.

He argues the injustices of the cultural system in the time period but does not back away from recognizing their common cultural and religious beliefs.

The Power Elite ( 1956 ) describes the relationships among the political, military, and economic elites, noting that they share a common world view made up of the following components: a " military metaphysic ," in other words a military definition of reality ; " class identity ," recognizing themselves as separate from and superior to the rest of society ; " interchangeability ," i. e., they move within and between the three institutional structures and hold interlocking positions of power therein ; cooptation / socialization, in other words, socialization of prospective new members is done based on how well they " clone " themselves socially after already established elites.

A common Ngāpuhi interpretation of the Declaration of the United Tribes is that the British government was simply recognizing Māori independence and putting the world on check, merely re-asserting sovereignty that had existed from " time immemorial ".

* Phoneme identity: which requires recognizing the common sound in different words, for example, " Tell me the sound that is the same in bike, boy and bell " ().

Each year, the Woodrow Wilson Center gives out several awards recognizing members of the community who have shown an outstanding commitment to President Woodrow Wilson's dream of integrating politics, scholarship, and policy for the common good.

The decision declined to concede social assistance to one partner, recognizing that according to law, persons living in a common relationship in the same household are a family, so that the partner is obligated to care for the first one.

Justice Charles M. Leibson authored the majority opinion, which noted that significantly, Kentucky has a rich and compelling tradition of recognizing and protecting individual rights from state intrusion in cases similar in nature, found in the Debates of the Kentucky Constitutional Convention of 1890 and cases from the same era when that Constitution was adopted ... Kentucky cases recognized a legally protected right of privacy based on our own constitution and common law tradition long before the United States Supreme Court first took notice of whether there were any rights of privacy inherent in the Federal Bill of Rights.

By recognizing a common genealogical pedigree, all members of the tribe establish a system of mutual respect, rights and obligations, thereby uniting themselves in their claims for land and other resources against neighbouring tribes.

: We, the people of the United States < ins > recognizing the being and attributes of Almighty God, the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures, the law of God as the paramount rule, and Jesus, the Messiah, the Savior and Lord of all </ ins >, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for < del > the common defense, promote </ del > the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

107 ( 2008 ) ( recognizing the tort of interference with custody and visitation rights, when mother fled to Egypt with two children never to return, and noting that loss of services was never an element of the substantive common law tort ).

The court, recognizing the lack of unanimity of a common law rule, found that the historical common law had a " decided, majority view that the police did not need to obtain an arrest warrant merely because a misdemeanor stopped short of violence or threat of it " and hence the argument had failed.