Marshall Ganz argues that the tactical choices of these leaders reshaped the organization in a way that expanded their strategic capacity, making the NFWA more flexible to respond to the challenges of the strike and re-shaping it into a farmworker social movement. Three areas were significant in that regard, according to Ganz. “While AWOC maintained traditional stationary picket lines, the NFWA leaders devised a new approach: roving picket lines. While AWOC organizers drew salaries and dispensed strike benefits from an AFL-CIO-supplied fund, NFWA leaders created a supporting network, making the most of the varied support it could provide. While AWOC told the story of the strike to itself, its members, and the public as just another labor dispute, the NFWA told a story of the birth of a new movement, rooted in specific ethnic, religious, and political traditions, and reach out to incorporate the legacy of the civil rights struggle.”