Reply #5: She met with

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Trumka and other union leaders on Thursday:

"10:45 am The Vice President and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis meet with President of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka and presidents of AFL-CIO labor organizations "

Members of President's cabinet usually don't get a lot of press as they go about their jobs.

Cesar Chavez Honored With National Landmark

HILDA SOLIS: Still harvesting the fruits of Chavez's labor

Learning history takes on many forms. Indeed, the story of America is told not only in textbooks, but through monuments, too. Storytelling -- a great tradition in the Latino community -- is one way to learn history, one way to connect with it and with each other. History helps us see our commonality -- our common struggles, goals and victories. In a unique way, history brings us all closer.

That is happening today in Delano, at the birthplace of the farmworker movement. A beautiful and important story will be told. My friend and colleague, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, will honor Cesar E. Chavez by dedicating the Forty Acres National Historic Landmark.

The journey leading up to today's destination has a rich history. It's one marked by the hopes and dreams of countless Latinos to preserve the work of this great leader for future generations to see. It's one that then Secretary Salazar and I helped write during our time in Congress. Together, we directed a nationwide study of sites significant to Cesar Chavez. And I am proud -- as I'm sure he is, too -- to see this landmark come to life.

Cesar Chavez's story means a lot to me; it's what led me to public service. Chavez was raised by a family of migrant farmworkers and spent his youth moving across the American Southwest, working in fields and vineyards. He experienced firsthand the hardships he would later crusade to abolish. At the time, farmworkers were impoverished and frequently exploited, exposed to hazardous working conditions -- including deadly pesticides -- and often denied clean drinking water, toilets and other basic necessities.

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