For these downtrodden workers. he won pay increases. eligibility for medical insurance and employer paid pensions. and protection from employer abuses. He won all these benefits for workers who had. until that period. often suffered from the lack of clean drinking water and bathrooms in the fields. Who could forget Chavez leadership of the 1968 boycott of California table grapes. That boycott. which was extremely successful at calling attention to the plight of migrant farmworkers. culminated in an emotional 300mile march by Mexican and Filipino workers from Delano. CA to the State capitol in Sacramento. He enjoyed other successes as well.