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Moreover, many of the UFW's own regulations cut the working time of the farmworkers. For example, the UFW has prevented pickers from working overtime during peak harvest seasons. Teen-age children of the farmworkers had formerly found summer employment in the fields, but the UFW no longer allowed this. The union also ordered periodic slowdowns which lowered the pay of workers mainly dependent of piece rates...
...this poor administration had long-term effects also, forcing some growers in to bankruptcy. Late in 1966, Chavez signed a contract with a second company, the DiGiorgio Corp. The UFW created many problems for the company, but the most important one was that it could not supply enough workers. This was due partly to UFW disorganization and partly to its unpopularity among pickers...
...bankruptcies and cutbacks due to UFW disorganization were in addition to the effects of the boycott. The boycott itself had forced many growers, especially smaller ones, to shift into another crop or go into bankruptcy...
...result, Chavez's boycotts and UFW disorganization have been major factors in causing declines in table grape planting. By 1971 growers had cut back planting by 4000 acres in the Coachella Valley and 8000 in the San Joaquin...
...result of this discrimination, corruption, poor administration and harmful regulation has been a decline in the total yearly earnings of many farmworkers who have had the misfortune of being forced into the UFW. One worker who showed his income tax returns to a reporter had made $7547 in 1969. In 1970, after a year's membership in a union he didn't want to join, he had made $6532 or $1200 less...