LUPE Movement Victories
The La Union Del Pueblo Entero movement victories marked in the timeline below by the striped circle icons represent the victories during United Farm Workers under the leadership of Rebecca Flores, state director of South Texas. The ones marked by the full circles represent those accomplished by LUPE.
Legislation passed; Growers subsequently began requiring workers to use a knife for weeding seedlings. In Texas Dept. of Health adopted field sanitation rules rather than face a national boycott of In light of a ruling by the Texas Supreme Court, a special session of the Texas Department of Agriculture adopted a set of rules requiring farmers to warn neighbors (when Following the same argument as the Workers Comp law, the Supreme Court forced the Legislature The Legislature raised the state minimum wage from $1.70 to $3.35 per hour. Later revision Under threat of another discrimination lawsuit, the Legislature wrote a law which established requirements that We worked with county officials and state legislators to pass HB 3002, a bill that In conjunction with Texas Riogrande Legal Aid, LUPE filed a lawsuit against FEMA in the Defeated over 100 anti-immigration bills in Texas legislature as part of statewide “Texas Can do After an 8 year campaign, LUPE and ARISE members won the installation of streetlights in The Texas Legislature passed a bill removing the requirement that applicants present a Social Security Through the organizing efforts of a broad coalition, the legislature passed a bill permitting all In 2005, the Legislature authorized counties to expend a portion of their CDBG funds to In conjunction with South Texas Civil Rights Project and other non-profit groups, LUPE filed a LUPE member delegations met with police chiefs in nine Valley cities to discuss the harmful LUPE leaders and staff testified during the Board of Education’s public hearing to ensure that On behalf of LUPE and community members, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid filed a lawsuit against Without the proper infrastructure, Colonia residents face persistent flooding, some tolerating standing water for weeks Working with the Communities Creating Healthy Environments (CCHE) initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, With the RGV Equal Voice Network, helped stop the City of McAllen from constructing 1000-bed
1981: Ban of Cortito
1983: Clean Toilets & Drinking Water in the fields
1984: Inclusion under Workers Compensation law
1984: Pesticide Controls
1985: Unemployment Compensation for farmworkers
1985: Minimum Wage improvement
1987: Pesticide Controls
2015: Colonia Streetlights
2009: FEMA Lawsuit Re: Hurricane Dolly
2011: Anti-Immigrant Legislation
2012: Colonia Streetlights
2001-2007: Driver’s License for Immigrants
2001: Resident Tuition for Undocumented Students
2005-2007: Colonia Streetlights
2008: DHS Lawsuit
2008: Delegations to Valley Police Chiefs Re: 287g
2010: Testifying before State Board of Education
2010: Food Stamps & Assistance
2011: Drainage & Housing Improvements
2012: Parks & Walking Trails
2013: Immigrant Private Prison