According to the article, public support helped farmworkers get better agreements from farm
owners.
Which selection BEST supports the idea outlined
above?
A
From Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. Chavez adopted historic
methods and tactics that were new to
organized labor. He demanded farmworkers
stick to a pledge of nonviolence.
B
Millions of people across North America
rallied to the farmworkers' cause, boycotting
grapes and other products. By refusing to
buy grapes, they forced growers to bargain
union contracts and agree to California's
pioneering farm labor law in 1975.
с
Under Chavez the UFW achieved huge gains
for farmworkers, establishing it as the first
successful farmworkers' union in American
history
D
The group helped to win the first union
contracts requiring rest periods, toilets in
the fields and clean drinking water. Other
contracts banned sexual harassment of
women workers and prohibited pesticide
spraying while workers were in the fields.