Through the use of a grape boycott. he was able to secure the first union contracts for farm workers in this country. These contracts provided farm workers with the basic services that most workers take for granted. services such as clean drinking water and sanitary facilities. Because of his fight to enforce child labor laws. farm workers could also be certain that their children would not be working side by side with them and would instead attend the migrant schools he helped to establish. In addition. Cesar Chavez made the world aware of the exposure to dangerous chemicals that farm workers and every consumer faces every day.