Agribusiness won this battle using its tremendous financial resources, its power over workers and its influence over California's
Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB).
Jerry Brown, who in 1975 pushed through the state's landmark Agricultural Labor Relations Act, which established the
Agricultural Labor Relations Board. The act stands alone among U.S.
[California
Agricultural Labor Relations Board, which administers the law] may have been the prescription for 'peace in the fields' prescribed by former Governor [Jerry] Brown," he stated, "but I submit the cure is killing the patient organ by organ."
By 1977, the UFW was able to have the
Agricultural Labor Relations Board refunded.