The growers and cannery owners refused, countering that they had only recently given workers a 25% pay raise.
The group organized a widespread teacher's strike in the state in 1970 to demand a pay raise.
He accepted a controversial $20,000 pay raise, and often took friends on trips at state expense.
This pay raise proposal was submitted as an amendment to the government's general appropriations bill.
The defeats were widely attributed to anger over the pay raise.
More training would have led to a pay raise.
Other union leaders suggested that the union might even accept a pay raise as low as 15 percent.
The company backs down and reinstates him with a large pay raise.
