At the peak of the boycott, in 1975, a Harris Poll found that 17 million people - 12 percent of all adults in the United States – said they had boycotted grapes. Here’s another fact that New Yorkers will identify with: The UFW staff in NYC ran up more than four thousand dollars in unpaid parking tickets by 1980 and the debt was turned over to a collection agency they wound up settling for $3,175.īoycotters also took public transportation, of course, and in fact subways proved a good place to campaign.

Today, the three-story building is a cooperative, where apartments sell for more than $2 million! Richard, a carpenter, ended up doing a lot of work to make the place inhabitable. On tape recordings of UFW board meetings, Richard Chavez, Cesar’s brother, talks about the filthy and dilapidated conditions he found when he moved to NY to run the boycott. 84th St., which served as boycott central and the UFW’s headquarters in NYC for many years. In Manhattan, supporters of the farmworkers’ cause donated a brownstone at 331 W.

Ufw boycott