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NJ SR105

Resolution

Status

Introduced

6/13/2024

Primary Sponsor

Nilsa Cruz-Perez

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Origin

Senate

2024-2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Officially recognizes and celebrates April 10 as Dolores Huerta's birthday in New Jersey

  • Honors Huerta as a prominent figure in labor activism and the Chicano civil rights movement, born April 10, 1930, in New Mexico

  • Acknowledges her co-founding of the National Farm Workers Association with César Chávez, which became the United Farm Workers' Union (UFW)

  • Recognizes her role in leading grape boycotts that led to the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, granting farm workers the right to unionize

  • Notes her creation of the UFW motto "Sí se puede" and her receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012

Legislative Description

Recognizes and celebrates April 10 as Dolores Huerta's birthday.

Labor

Last Action

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Labor Committee

6/13/2024

Committee Referrals

Labor6/13/2024

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