In 1975, the landmark California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), a law Huerta lobbied for, was passed as the first US law that protected the rights of farmworkers to organize and collectively bargain.
The law also created the Agricultural Labor Relations Board to enforce the law and oversee secret ballot elections.
"Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection."
- Agricultural Labor Relations Act, Section 1152 (1975)
