The UFW would continue to have a strained relationship with the Teamsters union throughout the next decade.
One was a rival farm worker union affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which competed with the UFW for contracts with growers. The UFW faced two main threats to the success of the strikes.
The NFWA and the AWOC merged into one union, the United Farm Workers Association (UFW), in 1966, beginning a movement that would garner support from politicians, civil rights groups, students, and religious leaders worldwide.Ĭlick to see interactive timeline of UFW strikes, boycotts, and other actions 1965-1975 By March 1965, Chavez was meeting with leaders of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) in Chicago, discussing plans to organize agricultural workers across the country. Mexican-American farm workers in the National Farm Workers Association, led by Cesar Chavez, also joined the strike. In 1965, Filipino farm workers in the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, led by Larry Itliong, began a series of strikes in Delano, California, demanding a minimum hourly wage of $1.40. UFW strikes, boycotts, and other actions 1965-1975. UFW: Geographic History 1965-1977 by Katie Anastas
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