Through boycotts and other forms of activism, farm workers succeeded in passing the California Agriculture Labor Relations Act of 1975, which established collective-bargaining power for farmworkers statewide.
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We celebrate Labor Day every year to remember the efforts of generations of workers who fought to secure better working conditions, fair pay, and safer conditions. It took years of organizing, unionizing, and marching to receive these rights. For some, the efforts were at the cost of livelihood and sometimes life.
Worker protections and pesticide controls in contracts was a leading goal of the United Farm Workers campaign. They were able to establish the regulatory requirements for the use of pesticides and acceptable residue levels on consumer goods.