American labor leader and activist Dolores Huerta is best known for her work on behalf of migrant farmworkers. In 1962 she and Cesar Chavez cofounded the National Farm Workers Association, the forerunner of the United Farm Workers (UFW). The latter is a hugely influential labor union that seeks to empower migrant farmworkers and to improve their wages and working conditions. In the 1970s Huerta coordinated nationwide lettuce, grape, and Gallo wine boycotts, which helped lead to the passage in 1975 of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act, the first law recognizing the rights of California farmworkers to bargain collectively.
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