Welcome to Off Message. I'm Isaac Dover. Today's guest, Dolores Huerta, the famous or infamous labor leader, for a little after-the-fact Labor Day theme here.

If you're like most people, you've heard of Caesar Chavez, but you may not have heard of Huerta, which says something about how the history of the 60s and the labor movement

unfolded, and how it's been told since. She co-founded what became the United Farm Workers

with Chavez in the 1960s, led some of the marches and the great boycotts that transformed

the farm laborer system in California

and then across the country. She's also the one who came up with Cisei Puei. Yes, we can, 40 plus

years before Barack Obama adopted it as his own, landing on the line by happenstance in conversation

one night organizing in Arizona. That, like a lot of her story,

has almost been lost to history, though it's the focus of a new movie A Better Life called,

it's easy to remember, Dolores. Huerta was in Washington last week, where I sat down with her to

talk about what her view on the current moment is given her history and the labor movement.

I think the 60s are back was her line and the sense that I got into in the article up on our site of Politico.com. If you want to get a sense of who she is and how she's been a presence right in front of you, even if you don't realize it,

take a look at a photo of Bobby Kennedy's victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel the

night he won the 1968 California primary. She's right there at his right. And as we talked about,

she feels a little lingering guilt from that night about not saying more about feeling the security

was a little light. And then a few minutes later, of course,

he was assassinated in the hotel kitchen.

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