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Ufw bird8/31/2023 ![]() ![]() That same year, the union spread beyond California as it launched a national grape boycott and inspired farm worker organizing in other states. ![]() Operating initially as two organizations-the National Farm Workers Association and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee-they merged in 1966 to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and later the UFW. When ethnic Mexican farm workers led by Cesar Chavez joined with Filipino American workers led by Larry Itliong in 1965 to strike grape growers in Delano, California, the modern farm workers movement was born. United Farm Workers History and Geography ![]()
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