The United Farm Workers of America (UFWA) is a labor union established in 1966 by the merger of the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), founded by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in 1962, and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC). With the leadership of Chavez, Huerta, and others, the UFWA organized various farmworker strikes and boycotts, including the grape strikes of the 1960s and 1970s, to improve conditions and increase wages.