United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 08/24/2016 Davis Vanguard (CA): Wolk Casts Decisive Vote to Advance Farm Worker Overtime
- 08/23/2016 Los Angeles Times: Feds sue garlic grower after a contractor’s van crash kills 4 migrant workers
- 08/22/2016 AP The Big Story: California lawmakers revive farmworker overtime bill
- 08/22/2016 Mid-Hudson News (NY): Updated EPA standards to protect New York farmworkers disputed
- 08/22/2016 Sacramento Bee (CA):California lawmakers revive farmworker overtime bill
- 08/22/2016 Los Angeles Times: California lawmakers in the Senate have passed a bill by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez to expand farmworker overtime pay
- 08/21/2016 L.A. Times: California lawmakers expect another showdown on overtime pay for farmworkers
- 08/21/2016 Valley Public Radio (NPR) (CA): Is It Time For Farmworkers To Receive Overtime Like Every Other Hourly Worker?
- 08/16/2016 CBS Local (CA): California Farm Workers Make Push For Overtime Pay
- 08/16/2016 San Diego Union-Tribune (CA): Fasting for farmworker overtime
- 08/16/2016 LA Times: California lawmakers, faith leaders fast in support of an Assembly bill that would phase in overtime pay for farmworkers
- 08/16/2016 Legislators and Faith Leaders Lead 24-Hour Fast for Farmworker Overtime
- 08/15/2016 The Guardian: Fruits of labor: sunny California is no paradise for farm workers
- 08/12/2016 San Francisco Chronicle: hObama poster painter Shepard Fairey paints murals in S.F
- 08/12/2016 Texas Standard: HERE’S WHY THE VOICES CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BLACK/WHITE BINARY AREN’T IN AMERICAN HISTORY BOOKS
- 08/11/2016 CAPITAL & MAIN: Farm Worker Overtime Bill Heads for Another Vote
- 08/10/2016 Texas Standard: 50 YEARS LATER, TEXAS FARMWORKERS REMEMBER HISTORIC PROTEST
- 08/10/2016 CBS Sacramento: Deadline Looms For California Farm Worker Overtime Bill
- 08/04/2016 Jewish Journal: Overtime for farm workers: Can we finally get it right?
- 08/04/2016 Kern Golden Empire (CA): Water bottles for farm workers south of Bakersfield
- 08/03/2016 KBAK TV (CBS) (CA):Farmworker groups pass out water bottles and info on heat-safety laws
- 08/03/2016 KERO 23 (ABC) (CA): The United Farm Workers Foundation handed out water bottles to farm workers
- 08/03/2016 Tom Steyer joins UFW to distribute water bottles to farm workers
- 08/02/2016 U.S. ambassador joins UFW president, Nicaraguan coffee farm owners to learn how union-company collaboration is raising worker wages by 50% in five years
- 08/02/2016 Bay Area Indymedia (CA): UFW will ‘sound the alarm’ on suspected heat deaths of farm workers in Kern County area