Eventually the union encompassed thousands of farm workers in multiple Valley counties. But Chavez felt it helped each member feel that they were “an important part of the organization.” Union members and their families had access to funeral insurance and also belonged to a credit union that only charged one percent interest on loans.
Union dues were hefty, $3.50 a month a lot for underpaid farm workers struggling to make ends meet. Along with experienced union organizer Dolores Huerta, in 1962 Chavez formed the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later became the United Farm Workers of America. He knew he wanted farm workers be at the center of his work, however, and decided to form a new organization. He began organizing campaigns against discrimination and directing voter registration drives.
You’re not making a living.” A nineteen-year-old farm worker, Cesar Chavez, along with thousands of others, left the field to gather and learn about La Causa, farm workers’ rights, and how to build a union. A truck drove through a cotton field in Corcoran, California with a loudspeaker: “Stop working.
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