UFW calls for boycott of Windmill Mushrooms
News Coverage
- 04/24/2002 Ventura County Star: Ventura-UFW mushroom fight could spark reform
- 04/22/2002 U.S. News & World Report: Ripe for abuse Farmworkers say organic growers don’t always treat them as well as they do your food
- 04/16/2002 Riverside Press Enterprise: Study links risks, farms CANCER: Migrant workers are found to have a higher incidence than other Hispanics
- 04/02/2002 Los Angeles Times: Farm Workers Celebrate Safety Law, Chavez Holiday
- 04/02/2002 Stockton Record : State, S.J. reflect on deceased farm labor activist’s life, work
- 04/02/2002 Fresno Bee : New law recalls ag van crash victims
- 04/01/2002 Associated Press: California honors Cesar Chavez on second annual holiday
- 04/01/2002 San Francisco Chronicle: Cesar Chavez Day – Honoring a Man of the People: ‘Si, se puede — it can be done’
- 03/31/2002 Associated Press: Unusual partnership between union, company yields Cesar Chavez rose
- 03/29/2002 Associated Press: FARM SCENE: Bill would limit weed pulling for farmworkers
- 03/29/2002 Cartoonista.com/pocho.com: a Lalo Alcaraz Cartoon: Cesar Chavez Day 2002
- 03/28/2002 Los Angeles Times: TV Ads Seek Farm Workers Who Are Due Pensions
- 03/28/2002 Los Angeles Times: High Court Ruling Hurts Union Goals of Immigrants Labor: An employer can fire an illegal worker trying to organize, the justices decide. Exploitation is feared.
- 03/28/2002 Ventura County Star: Labor backers fume over worker ruling
- 03/26/2002 Chicago Tribune: Pension money awaits retired migrant workers
- 03/20/2002 San Francisco Chronicle: Davis pushes for big new labor agency – Plan would bypass lawmakers to create Cabinet-level position
- 03/17/2002 Associated Press: Study: Farmworkers experience higher rates of leukemia, brain, prostate, skin cancer
- 03/16/2002 Santa Rosa Press Democrat: UFW Election held
- 03/03/2002 Ventura County Star (CA): Unitarian Universalists rally to union cause – PICTSWEET: Folks pour into Oxnard to show solidarity with push for UFW pact.
- 03/02/2002 Associated Press: Families of farmworkers killed in crash to receive compensation
- 03/01/2002 Ventura County Star: A rose by name of Chavez
- 02/27/2002 Associated Press : Field hands are getting pensions they didn’t know they has
- 02/27/2002 Associated Press : Immigrant and Hispanic workers describe unsafe working conditions
- 02/10/2002 The Monitor (TX): Candidates fight for highly-prized UFW endorsement
- 02/09/2002 Ventura County Star (CA): Tragedy emphasizes farm work dangers