Nationwide, union membership exploded as a result of the NLRA, empowering workers suffering through the uncertainties of the Great Depression.īut farmworkers, along with domestic workers, had been explicitly excluded from the new labor law and the benefits it brought. It also restrained employers from interfering with unionization efforts or discriminating against union members. labor law, the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (NLRA), guaranteed workers the right to join unions and collectively bargain through their representatives. Farmworkers had long been left out of the nation’s patchwork of labor protections.Ī key provision of U.S. It also details the many challenges that impeded collection action.
This article explores efforts by farmworkers in California to form unions over roughly 30 years, from the New Deal to the 1960s. Labor organizing has a long history in agriculture.
Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University. Picketers show support for the United Farm Workers ongoing grape and lettuce boycotts.
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