About Black Eagle Wines

Black Eagle Wines are produced under United Farm Workers' contracts guaranteeing decent pay, full benefits and protections for wine grape and all farm workers. Black Eagle Wines were created to give wine consumers a meaningful way to help the UFW continue its vital work while enjoying award-winning wine.

Black Eagle Wines are made purely with exceptional estate vineyard fruit, grown in the Napa Valley. And it's produced in a Napa winery known for award-winning vintages.

About the United Farm Workers

The UFW: Working for equality, human rights and dignity since 1962.

Founded by Cesar Chavez in 1962, the United Farm Workers is the first-and largest-farm workers union in U.S. history.

Since its founding, the UFW has won many battles for workers' rights, including:

--The first genuine union contracts between farm workers and growers. Recent UFW contracts cover thousands of farm workers at the third-largest vegetable company in California, the biggest dairy in America and the largest employer of strawberry workers in the U.S. A recent mushroom contract means 75 percent of California mushroom workers are unionized. The UFW also represents wine grape workers.

--Union contracts requiring rest periods, toilets in the fields, clean drinking water, hand washing facilities, protections from pesticides, seniority rights and job security, and bans on discrimination and sexual harassment of women workers.

--Establishing the first complete family health benefits for farm workers and their families through the union's Robert F. Kennedy Medical Plan and the first and only functioning pension plan for retired farm workers, the Juan de la Cruz Pension Plan.

--Abolishing the infamous short handled hoe that crippled generations of farm workers and extending to farm workers coverage under state unemployment, disability and workers' compensation.

--Convincing Governor Schwarzenegger in 2005 to issue the first regulation in the U.S. protecting farm workers from dying or getting sick from exposure to extreme heat.

--Winning enactment of a landmark 2002 California law allowing farm workers to call in mediators to hammer out union contracts when growers refuse to negotiate.

--The historic AgJobs bill before Congress, negotiated over several years by the UFW and the nation's agricultural industry, letting immigrant farm workers in this country now earn the right to permanently stay by continuing to work in agriculture.

--Along with the UFW Foundation, mobilizing support-including millions of dollars of relief-from the state and federal governments for 28,000 citrus workers, mostly in the Central Valley, left without jobs following a devastating freeze in 2007.