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Bridgette Ramirez

Topic: Farah Strike

Mexican American women, also known as Chicanas, have participated in numerous labor strikes, one being the Farah Strike. The Farah Strike took place from 1972 to 1974 in El Paso, Texas. In May 1972, four thousand garment workers walked out of the Farah Manufacturing Company facility. The Corpus Christi Caller-Times’s article, “Confrontations ease after Farah strike ends” reported that 94% of the workers were Mexican-American, and the majority were women. They walked out of the Farah factory as a result of their demands to be represented by Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (ACWA) and obtain better working conditions without the fear of losing their job. ACWA encouraged and endorsed the protest, because they wanted to represent the struggling workers.

The Farah Strike (1972–1974) was a labor strike by the employees of Farah Manufacturing Company, a clothing company in El Paso, Texas and New Mexico.

The strike started at the Farah plant in San Antonio in 1972 when the Hispanic women, called Chicanas, at the company demanded a labor union formation to fight for better working conditions

The two-year long strike included 4000 individuals, of which the majority were women.

The strike was culminated in 1974 in the favor of the women workers. The women employees benefited from the strike as some women were then actively involved in political organizations fighting for women’s rights and fair and safe labor environments.