THE UNTIED FARM WORKERS GRAPE BOYCOTT

CONDITIONS

• Low pay
• Long work hours
• Unsafe working conditions

ACTIONS

• Created United Farm Workers Union set up in Mexican neighborhoods
• NFWA was created and determined for better working conditions
• CSO helped Mexican neighborhoods taxes, getting children into schools, and studying for citizenship tests
• The grape boycott

OBSTACLES

• In 1936 NLRA took effects making most Americans able to join unions not farm workers
• In 1941 the bracero program brought Mexicans to the U.S braceros undercut them.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• 1975 agricultural labor relations act gave the farm workers the right to vote on a union
• End of the abusive system got the workers away from dangerous conditions and dangerous pesticides