United Farm Workers Founded
In September 1962 César Chávez and Dolores Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) in Fresno, California. Agricultural workers — largely Latino and Filipino migrants — were excluded from the National Labor Relations Act (1935), denying them the right to organise collectively. Chávez mobilised farmworkers through house meetings, registering 1,000 families in the first year. The NFWA merged with the largely Filipino Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee in 1966 to form the United Farm Workers (UFW), which became the first successful farmworkers' union in US history.
- Year: 1962 CE
