Women allege labor rights icon Cesar Chavez sexually assaulted them
NBC News·2026-03-18 23:20
I think that uh it is a fair contract. >> Tonight, shocking allegations that Latino labor rights icon Caesar Chavez, whose name is on schools and monuments across the country, sexually abused women and girls decades after his death. Dolores Wuerta, now 95, who co-founded the United Farm Workers Union with Chavez, revealed in a statement he sexually assaulted her twice.The first time I was manipulated and pressured into having sex with him. The second time I was forced against my will and in an environment w ...