Working out of a tiny kitchen-turned-office in the Pink House in Delano with assistant Jessica Govea and Union leadership, Cohen led many legal battles against the growers. The Wagner Act established the right to collective bargaining and to take collective action such as strikes- however, the federal law excluded farmworkers. The Taft-Hartley Act amended the Wagner Act and deemed secondary boycotts illegal, but because it excluded farmworkers, the UFWOC was able to secondary boycott Safeway stores selling Giumarra products. Jerry Cohen created a separate union for the nine UFWOC members working at DiGiorgio’s peanut shelling plant to ensure that no UFWOC members were working jobs that fell under the federal jurisdiction of the Wagner Act, allowing the Union to secondary boycott without fear of litigation of the growers. When Giumarra got a court order that deemed the usage of bullhorns illegal because it disrupted business, Cohen proved that it was taking away petitioners’ right to speak. Cohen was one of the leading figures in negotiating the landmark Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA) in 1975. After a couple of years of working at La Paz, the new Union headquarters, Jerry Cohen and his legal team were relocated to Salinas in 1974 to be closer to the vegetable workers striking. Cohen left the UFW in 1981.