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United farm workers strike5/20/2023 The UFW went on numerous strikes, walked all the way from Central California to Sacramento, and Cesar Chavez even went on a hunger strike in order to achieve this monumental win of the right to Unionize in California and winning the contract with Delano, and most of the California grape growers in 1970.īut in 1973 Delano walked back on the deal, instead giving a sweetheart deal, which included unsafe working conditions, to the Teamsters Union. The UFW had fought long and hard with the growers in California to unionize and achieve better work conditions. ![]() The Gallo Grapes boycott is a long running fight between agricultural workers in California (and various other states, but mostly situated in California) and the United Farmer Workers that came to a head in 1973.
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