News Coverage Twitter facebook YouTube Emailshare link 09/08/2001 Los Angeles Times: Jim Drake, 63; Aide to Chavez Helped Spread UFW’s Message 09/02/2001 Los Angeles Times: Pickers March Across Ventura – Labor: Workers demanding a contract protest their treatment by Pictsweet. Event is part of renewed offensive by UFW 08/30/2001 The Monitor: Fight for Benefits UFW stages protest, demands amnesty for immigrant workers 08/30/2001 San Francisco Chronicle: UFW makes contract with furniture firm: Union to represent nonfarm workers 08/29/2001 Associated Press: United Farm Workers union announced first non-farm contract 08/22/2001 Fresno Bee: 59% say legalize migrant workers 08/09/2001 Sacramento Bee: Big year for farm workers in state: The latest win is a law that reforms the contracting system. 08/09/2001 Fresno Bee: Davis OKs law on farm wages – Crackdown on cheating employers is a UFW first. 08/09/2001 Ventura County Star: UFW says Pictsweet position hypocritical 08/09/2001 Tri-City Herald: NAFTA forum discusses concerns 08/08/2001 Fresno Bee: Davis signs ag tax relief, studies labor crackdown Farmers praise the governor at the Tulare signing, hope he vetoes farmworker bill. 08/06/2001 Yakima Herald: Thousands Fill Yakima Streets 08/04/2001 Sacramento Bee: Like other undocumented farm workers in California, Gabriela Hernandez hoped to build a future. Instead, she awoke, paralyzed from a van crash … ‘I thought I was dead’: Farm labor van safety program falls short 08/04/2001 Ventura County Star: Pictsweet workers gain new support 08/03/2001 Bakersfield Californian: UFW chief rallies support for proposals 07/21/2001 Sacramento Bee: Davis gets legislation to stiffen farm laws 07/20/2001 Sacramento Bee: Bush rekindles immigration debate 07/19/2001 San Francisco Chronicle: Hard work, fair pay (opinion page) 07/14/2001 Ventura County Star: Rabbi group backs UFW in Pictsweet action 07/13/2001 Orange County Register: New guest-worker plan triggers controversy: Immigration advocates say it is a needless complication. 07/11/2001 The Monitor: Former UFW member receives pension 07/01/2001 Knight-Ridder Publications: 7/01 Op-Ed by UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez Historical proposal for farm worker legislation 06/28/2001 Los Angeles Times: Labor Board Files Action on Pictsweet 06/28/2001 Ventura County Star: Mushroom farm faces new ALRB labor complaint 06/27/2001 New York Times: Unions Say Labor Department Is Ignoring Wage Requirements « Previous1…290291292293294…308Next »