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The U.F.W.'s strength, of course, is the passionate loyalty of many of its members. Some migrants, however, have complained about the union's inefficient management. Hiring halls, for instance, have sometimes broken up family work teams. The Teamsters do have some support among field hands, largely from Filipinos who resent the Chicano-dominated U.F.W. Chavez believes that a heavy majority of workers would choose the U.F.W. in a free vote, but he has no way of forcing one.
Farm workers are not covered by the National Labor Relations Act, and Chavez does not especially want them to be, because that act forbids secondary boycotts—such as one directed against all the products of a supermarket that stocks non-U.F.W. grapes.