Dolores Huerta (born 1930) was an American labor leader and activist 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), an influential union whose grape boycott in the late 1960s and early ’70s forced grape producers to improve working conditions for migrant farmworkers. As coordinator of nationwide lettuce, grape, and Gallo wine boycotts in the 1970s, Huerta helped create the national climate that led 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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