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United Farm Workers AFL-CIO flag
The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) emerged in 1966 from the consolidation of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, led by Filipino Larry Itliong, and Chávez's National Farm Workers Association. The new union kept the prominent graphics of the original flag conceived for the NFWA, replacing its old acronym and adding its affiliation to the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).
Evoking the Mexican roots of the NFWA and the UFWOC's main constituency, the red and white flag featured at its center the schematic silhouette of a black eagle, an important animal in Aztec mythology. The word "Huelga" on top is Spanish and Filipino for strike. Huelga! Que viva la huelga! (Long live the strike!) became the battle cry of farm workers demanding fair wages and treatment in the fields.
Flag design by Richard Chávez; unidentified maker |