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Leader, Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee · 1913–1977
Sparked the Delano strike — and a multiracial alliance.
A Filipino American labor leader, Itliong led the 1965 AWOC walkout that began the Delano grape strike, then invited the largely Mexican NFWA to join — forging one of the most powerful multiracial labor alliances in U.S. history.
Cross-cultural solidarity
Itliong understood that growers had long divided Filipino and Mexican workers to break strikes; uniting them across language and culture was the move that made the strike unbreakable.
The alliance forced the first real bargaining in the fields — bringing growers stability and farmworkers contracts, and proving that solidarity across difference is leverage, not a liability.
In a workforce as diverse as an FQHC's, unity across language and role is a source of strength for everyone.
Source: The Welga Project, UC Davis
The framework they used
The Common-Interest Framework