United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Coverage
- 02/03/2022 Civil Eats: Indigenous Farmworkers Are Unheard, Overlooked, and Exposed
- 02/02/2022 Vice News: Labor Groups Urge Biden Administration to Investigate Alleged ‘Modern-Day’ Slavery in Georgia
- 02/01/2022 High Country News: A just transition for farmworkers
- 02/01/2022 Newsday: Farm workers pay: NYers deserve fair overtime
- 01/31/2022 North Country Public Radio: NY will phase in overtime pay for farm workers. The Farm Bureau is pushing back
- 01/25/2022 New York Amsterdam News: Stop denying farmworkers overtime pay!
- 01/21/2022 Vice: Farm Workers Were Trafficked and Threatened With a Gun in South Carolina, Feds Say
- 01/20/2022 The Los Angeles Times: Column: Alex Padilla isn’t scared to push through a pro-immigrant agenda
- 01/15/2022 The Bakersfield Californian: Farmworkers, growers dissatisfied after overtime change
- 01/11/2022 The Sacramento Bee: California politics will be a lot less interesting without Lorena Gonzalez in Sacramento
- 01/11/2022 Daily Kos: ‘A great triumph for us’: California law giving farmworkers overtime time pay fully kicks in
- 01/09/2022 The Fresno Bee: California farmworkers now get overtime pay after 8 hours. Some growers say it’s a problem
- 01/08/2022 USNews: Maine Governor Vetoes Bill to Allow Farm Workers to Unionize
- 01/08/2022 The Hill: Maine governor cites rising costs in veto of farmer unionization bill
- 01/07/2022 KVPR: California farmworkers can now get overtime pay after 8 hours.
- 01/05/2022 Newsweek: AOC Uses Waitress Experience to Call Out Eric Adams For ‘Low-Skilled’ Worker Comments
- 01/02/2022 Kima TV: Agriculture workers now eligible for overtime pay after 55 hours
- 12/24/2021 Daily Kos: Chuck Grassley boasts about hosting lunch. He should also thank immigrants who made it possible
- 12/21/2021 Statesman Journal: Legislature allocates $10M to Oregon farmworkers who missed work due to extreme weather
- 12/17/2021 USA Today: Senate parliamentarian rejects latest immigration proposal in reconciliation bill
- 12/16/2021 KION 5/46: Farmworkers hold vigil in Salinas for undocumented immigrants
- 12/15/2021 NY Daily News: The hand that feeds: Congress should act to provide legal pathways for farmworker labor
- 12/15/2021 WWNY 7 News: NYS delays decision on farm worker overtime, public hearings planned
- 12/07/2021 Bakersfield Now: Farmworkers get wage increase, following lawsuit
- 12/06/2021 NPR: Calif. rules to protect outdoor workers from smoke are rarely enforced, probe finds