 In the 1980s, with the UFW declining, Chavez got into real-estate development; some of the development projects he was involved with used non-union construction workers, which "The New Yorker" later termed an "embarrassment".In 1988, Chavez attempted another grape boycott, to protest the exposure of farmworkers to pesticides.Bumper stickers reading "NO GRAPES" and "" (the translation in Spanish) were widespread.