 The Teamsters agreed because farmworkers were a marginal group for them; their typically low incomes also meant that farmworkers did not generate sufficient funds for the union to warrant its ongoing and costly clashes with the UFW.Chavez told the executive committee that radical change was necessary in the UFW; he stated that they could be either a union or a movement, but not both.If the former, they would have to start paying wages to their staff, rather than rely on volunteers, which at that time they were not in a financial position to do.