Every Worker an Organizer
12 Griselda Ruiz
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Watsonville
Griselda Ruiz came to the U.S. from Michoacan when she was 13. At fifteen, she began to work with her mother in the strawberry fields in Watsonville. After hearing union organizers talking to her crew about higher wages and better conditions, she handed out union buttons to the other workers in her crew, and was fired for union activity. She then became a union organizer during the big strawberry workers organizing drive.
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