Dolores Huerta and The United Farm Workers organize workers and fight for farm workers rights till this day. They have successfully fought for better working conditions for all agricultural workers. They have been successful in gaining health benefits, instituting the benefit program, and Dolores was a key factor in voicing the use of deadly crop chemicals.  As the United Farm Workers's vice-president, Huerta haws become a feminist symbol in the women's movement. She was faced with sexism in the United Farm Workers and thus challenged gender discrimination while educating males about the impact of gender issues on the union's work.

Dolores Huerta first lobbied to secure Aid For Dependent Families and disability insurance for farm workers in California. Then in 1965, she became involved in the “Delano Grape Strike” where the members of the AWOC and NFWA eventually came together to form the United Farm Workers of America. She was then heavily involved in the Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975 that granted farm workers in California the right and opportunity to organize and bargain and fight for better working conditions and wages. In 1976, the UFW collects thousands of signatures for Proposition 14 which was on the November ballot stating they want to restore the shut down of ALRB and prevent amendments from weakening and decreasing and farm labor law. In the 1990s, the UFW and Dolores organize a campaign in the Central Coast Strawberry industry concluding in two union contracts. Due to Dolores Huerta’s undying support and fight for activism, she has paid a physical price for her work. She has been arrested over 20 times during her career while on the picket line and in 1988 suffered two broken ribs and a ruptured spleen, when San Francisco police arrested her during a protest against the Bush Administration.

Dolores Huerta has remained Cesar Chavez' most loyal and trusted advisor for over thirty years. After Cesar Chavez's death in 1993, Huerta continued to foster the UFW's work in the political arena and at the collective bargaining and negotiating arena. In 1999 she involved herself and her time to the presidential candidacy of Al Gore.

She is currently serving as the Secretary-Treasurer of the United Farm Workers, Vice-President for the Coalition for Labor Union Women, Vice-President of the California AFL-CIO, and is a board member for the Fund For The Feminist Majority which advocates for the political and equal rights for women (Aztlan).