Senate vote imminent: Act to save highest-paying domestic farm jobs
News Coverage
- 10/19/2005 Clovis News Journal: Cesar Chavez Drive dedicated
- 10/13/2005 Monterey Herald: UFW endorses Watsonville mayor-Salinas: Ventura Phares running for 28th Assembly seat
- 10/12/2005 Seattle Post: WA Governor throws support behind federal ag labor bill
- 10/12/2005 The Daily Texan: Artists reveal Chavez, Jordan statues: Activist Cesar Chavez will be honored by West Mall design
- 10/09/2005 Yakima Herald-Republic: Thai farm workers seek equity in strange land
- 10/06/2005 KGET: Local farm workers win labor dispute lawsuit
- 10/04/2005 Associated Press: Farmworkers win $1.7 million settlement in suit over unpaid work
- 10/04/2005 Bakersfield Californian: Farmworkers win settlement
- 09/22/2005 Los Angeles Times: Border Policy Is Pinching Farmers
- 09/22/2005 Yakima Herald REPUBLIC: Ag union seeks ban on labor contractor
- 09/21/2005 Fargo North Dakota Forum: Dairy under scrutiny
- 09/18/2005 San Francisco Chronicle – Ripe crops languish in the fields: It’s harvest time in the Central Valley, but where are the farmworkers?
- 09/14/2005 Associated Press: UFW signs contract with Gallo of Sonoma after 2-year battle
- 09/13/2005 Associated Press: Farm workers file complaint alleging intimidation during union vote
- 09/02/2005 Associated Press: Grape pickers’ UFW vote undetermined
- 09/01/2005 KGET: Workers decide whether or not to join union
- 08/31/2005 Los Angeles Times: UFW Thinks Climate Is Right to Grow Its Ranks
- 08/30/2005 KGET Ch 17: Farm workers demand better treatment, wages
- 08/30/2005 KBAK Ch 23: Workers rally for support to join United Farm Workers union
- 08/17/2005 San Diego Union Tribune: Workers, employers weigh impact of rules to protect against heat
- 08/08/2005 KGET: Pesticide exposure sends workers to hospital
- 08/07/2005 Boston Globe : Heat takes its toll in fields, and California seeks relief
- 08/04/2005 Los Angeles Times Editorial: Battling the heat
- 08/03/2005 San Francisco Chronicle : State seeks to halt farmworker deaths : New rules on breaks after 5 lose their lives in heat of summer
- 08/03/2005 Los Angeles Times : Gov. Orders Shade, Water for Workers Sickened by Heat