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>> Very low pay, very harsh working conditions existed for farmworkers across the board.
One of the largest products, however, coming out of California was the grapes.
So strikers were making this movement for justice,
fair wages, and safe working conditions.
>> For me, the importance is that the Filipinos workers are the ones who began the strike.
I'm from Delano, and I was, yeah, I have seven brothers, sisters.
And five of us were born in a labor camp.
So we worked in the fields.
You know, our home was surrounded by grapes.
>> Boycotting grapes affected global markets because California supplies so much
of the global market's fruits and vegetables.
So organizing with the grapes first.
Right? And against, particularly, well-organized growers, and the corporations that bought grapes
from these growers was an extremely important stride,
not just for farmworkers, but for labor in general.
>> It was about two weeks after the strike began that Larry the Filipino leader knew
that they couldn't win the strike by themselves.
So at that point, they had gone to Caesar and ask Caesar to join them.
And that was the beginning, you know, of the two unions coming together.
I mean, they were risking their livelihood.
They were risking their homes.
You know, well, they lived in labor camps.
I don't know if you would call those homes, but they're risking having a place to live,
or they didn't have families that they could fall back on to take care of them.
They were risking a lot.