United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 05/24/2011 State panel nominates National Chavez Center at Keene, Calif. for National Historic Registry
- 05/23/2011 Reuters: Judge blocks naming San Antonio street for Cesar Chavez
- 05/22/2011 CBS News/60 Minutes: Farm labor — Children in the fields
- 05/19/2011 Chavez family, UFW applaud City Council vote for new Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. in San Antonio
- 05/19/2011 Ventura County Star (CA): Union ‘card-check’ bill for farmworkers could put Brown in tough spot
- 05/19/2011 Associated Press: Navy names new ship for labor leader Cesar Chavez
- 05/19/2011 Bay Area Indymedia (CA): Farm Workers Witness Historic Vote on Fair Treatment for Farm Workers Act
- 05/18/2011 Farm Workers Witness Historic Vote on The Fair Treatment for Farm Workers Act, By Edgar Sanchez Special to the UFW
- 05/18/2011 San Diego shipyard announcement Navy secretary, Chavez family unveil Navy’s newest cargo ship: USNS Cesar Chavez
- 05/18/2011 Spot.Us/WMNF: Florida Strawberries — Delicious Poison? (includes audio)
- 05/18/2011 San Diego Union Tribune: Navy secretary names ship after Cesar Chavez
- 05/17/2011 Associated Press: U.S. representative complains about naval ship’s Cesar Chavez name
- 05/17/2011 Stockton Record (CA): Farm union bill passes in Assembly
- 05/16/2011 State Assembly approves Steinberg bill to make it easier for farm workers to protect themselves
- 05/16/2011 Sacramento Bee: Bill allows majority signup in farm union votes
- 05/16/2011 ABC 10 (CA): Farmworkers lobby in support of unionizing bill
- 05/16/2011 San Francisco Chronicle: Bill allows majority signup in farm union votes
- 05/16/2011 San Francisco Chronicle: Assembly approves bill making it easier for farmworkers
- 05/16/2011 San Jose Mercury News (CA): Alejo’s farmworkers bill passes California Assembly; bill allows farmworkers to establish collective bargaining
- 05/16/2011 Los Angeles Times: Park Service considers protecting sites significant to Cesar Chavez’s life
- 05/14/2011 Daily Kos: Tragic Death of Teen Farm Worker in 2008 Propels Uncle to Fight for Labor Rights
- 05/13/2011 KERO 23 (CA): National Park Service Visits Historical Sites In Delano, Keene
- 05/13/2011 Arizona Daily Star, AP: State immigration laws may never be constitutional
- 05/13/2011 Sacramento Bee: Latinos hope Jerry Brown signs bills on illegal immigrants, farmworkers
- 05/13/2011 TRAGIC DEATH OF TEEN FARM WORKER IN 2008 PROPELS UNCLE TO FIGHT FOR LABOR RIGHTS — By Edgar Sanchez Special to the UFW