News Coverage

The canneries strike was covered by a wide variety of newspapers, including:

• Register Pajaronian Links to an external site. in Watsonville  reported regularly on the impact of the strike in the community.
• Santa Cruz Sentinel Links to an external site. covered major events, court cases, and conflicts between cannery executives.
• Labor publications such as socialist weekly People's World Links to an external site. and the Teamsters for a Democratic Union's (TDU) newspaper Convoy Dispatch.
• Other student and leftist publications such as the League of Revolutionary Struggle's newspaper Unity and the national progressive magazine In These Times Links to an external site..
• National Newspapers such as the San Francisco Chronicle Links to an external site., the Los Angeles Times Links to an external site., and the New York Times Links to an external site..

The articles that follow from the People's World, Register Pajaronian, and San Francisco Chronicle offer different perspectives on the strike, each striking a different tone and speaking to different readers.