Dolores Huerta

Dolores C. Huerta (* April 10, 1930 Dawson, New Mexico) is an American trade unionist. She is co-founder and treasurer of the agricultural workers' union United Farm Workers ( UFW ) and Vice President of the California AFL -CIO.

Biography

Her parents divorced when she was three years old. Her mother Alicia Chaves drew Dolores and her two brothers and two sisters alone. They lived among peasants in Stockton in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Her mother was a businesswoman. She owned a restaurant and a hotel with 70 rooms, were allowed to live in the country working families often free.

As of 1964, Dolores Huerta became a respected negotiator for the interests of the field workers and field workers union. Your Vice- presidency of the AFL -CIO is considered an indicator of a formally more assertive role of women in previously male-dominated unions.

Honors

• 2003: Four Freedoms Award, in the category of freedom from want
• 2012: Presidential Medal of Freedom