United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 08/13/2024 Farm workers won the right to organize in 1975 because of Richard Alatorre
- 08/12/2024 Farm worker Lourdes Cardenas speaks at #HeatWeek kickoff
- 08/09/2024 Media Advisory: Senator Cortese joins UFW President Teresa Romero and farm workers fired for leaving work over heat safety
- 07/30/2024 Union activists to be recalled in NY apple orchard
- 07/21/2024 United Farm Workers Endorses Vice President Kamala Harris for President
- 07/19/2024 Injunction Halts Progress for Wonderful Nurseries Workers
- 07/09/2024 As California Temperatures Soar, UFW urges passage of the Preventing Farm Worker Climate Change Heat Injury, Illness or Death Act (SB 1299)
- 07/02/2024 United Farm Workers & UFW Foundation Welcome Proposed Rulemaking for Federal Heat Standards for Outdoor Workers
- 06/18/2024 Farm Workers Welcome President Biden’s Action To Protect American Families
- 06/10/2024 UFW mourns the passing of Rev. James Lawson
- 06/10/2024 Farm Workers to Rally at Yakima Court in Windmill Farms Lawsuit
- 06/10/2024 Aristeo Oropeza was alongside Cesar Chavez during the historic 1966 march
- 05/03/2024 United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- 05/02/2024 Farm workers who voted for UFW seek binding arbitration to win union contracts at five New York farms; state certifies UFW after workers voted at a sixth company
- 04/26/2024 United Farm Workers & UFW Foundation Welcome New Federal Rules to Reform the H-2A Program
- 03/29/2024 Bill Granting Farm Workers Legal Status Reintroduced in Senate
- 03/27/2024 Mourning Wendy Goepel Brooks, one of the UFW’s first full-time volunteers at the dawn of the 1965 Delano grape strike
- 03/27/2024 UFW Files New Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against Wonderful Nurseries
- 02/23/2024 UFW Welcomes Restoration of Farm Worker Labor Rights in New York; Calls on Growers to Negotiate Union Contracts
- 02/14/2024 Farmworkers and Allies to Rally Outside Buffalo CourthouseFor Right to Organize
- 02/13/2024 Farm workers praise SEIU’s Mary Kay Henry for her years of leadership and support
- 02/10/2024 Rufino Contreras asked for ‘a more just share’ of what he produced; 45 years ago the company answered him with bullets
- 01/25/2024 Remembering Nan Freeman 52 years after the young Jewish woman gave her life for farm workers
- 01/12/2024 Mourning Florida UFW leader James Strowbridge Sr.
- 11/28/2023 Workers Sue Windmill Farms to Demand Fair Treatmentand Union Recognition