The NCGA is the biggest user of the H2A temporary visa program. This program allows agricultural workers to come into the U.S for a certain period of time. The idea is that the workers come in, get the job done for how ever long it may take, then go back to their country of origin. This program is very successful, and brings over 10,000 workers into North Carolina annually. However, growers were taking advantage of the workers and the conditions they lived in were horrid. So, FLOC stepped in and created the contract that is the same one the Mt. Olive Pickles company is a part of. FLOC fought for six years, until finally the collective bargaining with the North Carolina Growers Association was signed in 2004. This agreement secured important protections for all farmworkers who are contracted through the NCGA. 

The United Farm Workers made history by signing a series of union contracts in 1966 with Delano area table grape growers after several years of boycotts, strikes, marches, and hunger strikes.  Subsequent contracts focused on the lettuce industry in Arizona, dairy workers in Boardman, Oregon and Thai temporary workers holding H-2A visas in Washington state contracted by Global Horizons.  Currently, UFW labels can be found on fruit, nuts and vegetables from D'Arrigo Farms, Muranaka Farms, Swanton Berry, Gourmet Trading Co., Wonderful (Halo citrus), Pato's Date Gardens, Monterey Mushrooms, Countryside Mushrooms, Foster Farms (poultry), Star Roses, Gargiulo, San Joaquin Tomato, Pacific Triple E, and 7 Wineries.  

In 1991, cucumber pickers at Kraemer Farms organized a strike in order to raise their wages. After Kraemer Farms fought back, PCUN boycotted NORPAC Foods Inc. (co-owned by Kraemer Farms). Almost a decade later, four of the top food services convinced NORPAC Foods Inc. to finally negotiate with PCUN to make a create a framework for collective bargaining on NORPAC member farms. The agribusiness lobby attempted to stop PCUN's efforts through making the Oregon Legislature pass an agricultural collective bargaining bill that would strip farmworkers of most boycott rights, but the bill was vetoed.  See https://cllas.uoregon.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/PCUN_story_WEB.pdf