Department of Labor event, Washington, D.C., [featuring the renaming of the Department's auditorium as the] Cesar Chavez Memorial Auditorium; [and the induction of the Pioneers of the Farm Worker Movement into the Labor Hall of Honor.] Interior Secretary Ken Salazar [joined host Labor Secretary Hild

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Department of Labor event, Washington, D.C., [featuring the renaming of the Department's auditorium as the] Cesar Chavez Memorial Auditorium; [and the induction of the Pioneers of the Farm Worker Movement into the Labor Hall of Honor.] Interior Secretary Ken Salazar [joined host Labor Secretary Hilda Solis; Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack; Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva; Jill Biden, wife of the Vice President; United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta; current United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez; Cesar Chavez Foundation President Paul Chavez; and White House Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Munoz among the dignitaries on hand.] - 3/26/2012

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Department of Labor event, Washington, D.C., [featuring the renaming of the Department's auditorium as the] Cesar Chavez Memorial Auditorium; [and the induction of the Pioneers of the Farm Worker Movement into the Labor Hall of Honor.] Interior Secretary Ken Salazar [joined host Labor Secretary Hilda Solis; Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack; Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva; Jill Biden, wife of the Vice President; United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta; current United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez; Cesar Chavez Foundation President Paul Chavez; and White House Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Munoz among the dignitaries on hand.] Photographer: Tami Heilemann--Interior Staff Date: 3/26/2012

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Huerta, Dolores, 1930-

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Dolores Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta helped organize the Delano grape strike in 1965 in California and was the lead negotiator in the workers' contract that was created after the strike. Huerta has received numerous awards including the Eugene V....