| AFL-CIO | American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations |
| ALRA | Agricultural Labor Relations Act |
| ALRB | Agricultural Labor Relations Board |
| AWFWA | Agricultural Workers Freedom to Work Association |
| AWOC | Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee |
| CRLA | California Rural Legal Assistance |
| CSO | Community Service Organization |
| IFPAAW | International Federation of Plantation, Agricultural, and Allied Workers
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| ILWU | International Longshoremen Workers Union
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| ITWF | International Transport Workers Federation |
| MLK | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| NAWU | National Agricultural Workers Union
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| NEB | National Executive Board of the United Farm Workers
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| NEP | New Economic Policy, Richard M. Nixon administration
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| NFLU | National Farm Labor Union |
| NFWA | National Farm Workers Association |
| NLRA | National Labor Relations Act |
| NLRB | National Labor Relations Board |
| SCFC | South Central Farmers Committee |
| SDS | Students for a Democratic Society |
| SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
| TGWU | Transport and General Workers Union, Great Britain
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| TUC | Trade Union Congress, Great Britain |
| UAW | United Auto Workers union |
| UFW | United Farm Workers union |
| UFWOC | United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
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| USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture |