{{Infobox civil conflict | latitude = | longitude = |image = César Chávez with John Giumarra and others ending CA Grape Strike.jpg |caption = César Chávez shakes hands with John Giumarra Jr. after signing an agreement to end the strike |date = |place = Delano, California | coordinates = | goals = Increased wages and working conditions | methods = Strikes, boycotting, demonstrations | status = | result = Collective bargaining agreement | concessions = | side1= Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee United Farm Workers | side2= Table grape growers Schenley Industries DiGiorgio Corporation | leadfigures1= Larry ItliongLupe MartinezCesar ChavezDolores Huerta | leadfigures2= | casualties1= | casualties2= | map_type = | map_size = | map_caption = | howmany1= 2,000+ Filipino Americans1,200+ Mexican AmericansTotal:10,000+ | howmany2= | sidebox = }} The Delano grape strike' was a labor strike organized by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), a predominantly Filipino and AFL-CIO-sponsored labor organization, against table grape growers in Delano, California to fight against the exploitation of farm workers. The strike began on September 8, 1965, and one week later, the predominantly Mexican National Farmworkers Association (NFWA) joined the cause.Feriss, Susan; Sandoval, Ricardo; and Hembree, Diana. The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement. New York: Houghton Mifflin Courtyard, 1998. In August 1966, the AWOC and the NFWA merged to create the United Farm Workers (UFW) Organizing Committee.Hurt, R. Douglas and for farm growers to cease exposing farm workers to dangerous pesticides. American Agriculture: A Brief History. Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2002. The strike lasted for five years and was characterized by its grassroots efforts—consumer boycotts, marches, community organizing and nonviolent resistance—which gained the movement national attention.Weber, Devra. Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1996. On July 1970, the strike resulted in a victory for farm workers, due largely to a consumer boycott of non-union grapes, when a collective bargaining agreement was reached with major table grape growers, affecting more than 10,000 farm workers. The Delano grape strike is most notable for the effective implementation and adaptation of boycotts, the unprecedented partnership between Filipino and Mexican farm workers to unionize farm labor, and the resulting creation of the UFW labor union, all of which revolutionized the farm labor movement in America. Background Preceding the Delano grape strike was another grape strike organized by Filipino farm workers that