DOLORES HUERTA, US LABOR LEADER AND FORCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, DIES AT 96

Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) with Cesar Chavez and fought legislators and powerful growers in the US to improve the lives of a previously powerless constituency, died on Wednesday at the age of 96, her family said in a statement.

Huerta was one of the foremost women in US labor history, serving the UFW as chief negotiator, strike organizer, lobbyist and reformer during its ​heyday in the 1960s and '70s in California's agriculture-rich Central Valley.

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