Oral History Interview with Antonio Jimenez, June 10, 2016
Description:
Antonio Jimenez was born in Mexico and moved to the U.S. during the 1980s. He worked at Cactus Feeders then Swift, a meat packing plant in Cactus, Texas. While at Swift, Jimenez felt that the United Food & Commercial Workers was not representing the meat packing plant’s workers well. Thus, he and others, inspired by Trini Gamez and Coco Medina, launched a local union that eventually initiated a strike that brought better conditions. He eventually left Swift and the independent local union when …
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Date:
June 10, 2016
Duration:
45 minutes 54 seconds
Creator:
Zapata, Joel & Jimenez, Antonio
Partner:
TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library