United Farm Workers

The United Farm Workers is a labor union founded in 1962 to organize agricultural workers in the United States. It became known for strikes, consumer boycotts, and campaigns for farmworker rights.

César Chávez: César Chávez was an American labor leader who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association and led the United Farm Workers. He helped found the union and became its best-known leader.
Farmworker movement: The farmworker movement is a broad effort to improve agricultural workers’ wages, working conditions, and rights. The UFW became one of its leading organizations in the United States.
California Agricultural Labor Relations Act: The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act is a 1975 state law establishing collective bargaining rights for agricultural workers. UFW organizing helped create pressure for this landmark farm labor law.
Industrial Workers of the World: The Industrial Workers of the World is a labor union founded in 1905 that advocates industrial unionism and worker solidarity. Its organizing tradition offers an earlier model of cross-industry worker solidarity.
Dolores Huerta: Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association and helped organize farmworkers. Her organizing and negotiating helped build the union from its earliest years.
Labor union: A labor union is an organization through which workers act collectively to improve employment conditions. The UFW uses collective organization to represent agricultural workers.
Farm labor in the United States: Farm labor in the United States is the work involved in producing crops and livestock, often performed by hired workers. The union’s organizing addressed the conditions and power relations within this workforce.
Community organizing: Community organizing is the process of building collective power among people connected by place or shared interests. The UFW mobilized families, churches, students, and other allies beyond union members.
Larry Itliong: Larry Itliong was a Filipino American labor organizer who led the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee. His group’s 1965 Delano grape strike prompted the union’s major organizing campaign.
Strike action: Strike action is a collective work stoppage used by employees to press demands on an employer. Work stoppages gave farmworkers leverage during disputes with growers.

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