 By the end of the 1970s, only one member of the UFW's original board of directors remained in place.Still, before the turn of the 1980s decade, Chavez's tactics had forced growers to recognize the UFW as the bargaining agent for 50,000 field workers in California and Florida.Meanwhile, membership in the UFW union had been in decline and by the mid-1980s it had dwindled to around 15,000.