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...Huerta was instrumental in organizing the migrant farm workers of California’s fields and co-founded the UFW in 1962. Later that year she pushed for legislation repealing the inhumane Bracero Program, which legally exploited the labor of Mexican nationals. In 1965, she directed the UFW’s national grape boycott, which communicated the worker’s suffering to the consumers in order to end subhuman wages, worker abuses, poor living conditions, and the use of toxic pesticides, among other atrocities. Her efforts culminated in a three-year collective bargaining between the UFW and the entire...
...Chavez himself came to Boston in 1973, leading a protest march along the Freedom Trail in Boston, in support of his UFW boycott of A&P supermarkets...
After five years of following the UFW's boycott, Harvard began to serve grapes in 1997 following a series of student protests and a campus-wide vote...
Rodriguez said another reason for the UFW's shift in position has been their success in negotiating contracts for improved conditions in other industries...
...UFW has not given up its crusade against poor working conditions and is currently boycotting Picksweet mushrooms from Ventura County, Calif...