United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 02/21/2022 Business Insider: A Texas farm owned by one of the US’ biggest potato growers paid over $1.3 million in back wages to workers after denying them overtime pay
- 02/15/2022 Tri-City Herald: ‘Yes we can.’ Tri-Cities immigrants call for reform during rally
- 02/14/2022 Ventura County Star: ‘A Day Without Immigrants’: Farmworkers, advocacy groups rally for immigration reform
- 02/14/2022 Corvallis Gazette-Times: Bill that would require higher OT for Oregon farmworkers lives another day
- 02/14/2022 NBC Right Now: UFW national Day Without Immigrants rally held in Pasco
- 02/12/2022 Farm Workers Hold “A Day Without Immigrants” Rallies
- 02/11/2022 Civil Eats: Long Excluded from Overtime Pay, Oregon Farmworkers Make Their Case
- 02/11/2022 California State University, Bakersfield: Leading with a “‘Si, se puede’ attitude”
- 02/10/2022 The Bakersfield Californian: Farm automation attracts investment but big challenges remain
- 02/10/2022 UFW President Emeritus, UFW Foundation Systemic Change Director Appointed to USDA Equity Commission
- 02/10/2022 Rufino Contreras asked for ‘a more just share’ of what he produced; 43 years ago the company answered him with bullets
- 02/06/2022 AgriNews: N.Y. looks at expanded overtime for farmworkers
- 02/06/2022 Keizertimes – Opinion: Treat farmworkers fairly when it comes to overtime
- 02/03/2022 Farm worker rights coalition urges Biden Administration to fully investigate & reform the H-2A program following Georgia ‘modern-day slavery’ human trafficking cases
- 02/03/2022 Civil Eats: Indigenous Farmworkers Are Unheard, Overlooked, and Exposed
- 02/02/2022 Vice News: Labor Groups Urge Biden Administration to Investigate Alleged ‘Modern-Day’ Slavery in Georgia
- 02/01/2022 High Country News: A just transition for farmworkers
- 02/01/2022 Newsday: Farm workers pay: NYers deserve fair overtime
- 01/31/2022 North Country Public Radio: NY will phase in overtime pay for farm workers. The Farm Bureau is pushing back
- 01/25/2022 New York Amsterdam News: Stop denying farmworkers overtime pay!
- 01/25/2022 Remembering Nan Freeman 50 years after the young Jewish woman gave her life for farm workers
- 01/21/2022 Vice: Farm Workers Were Trafficked and Threatened With a Gun in South Carolina, Feds Say
- 01/20/2022 The Los Angeles Times: Column: Alex Padilla isn’t scared to push through a pro-immigrant agenda
- 01/15/2022 The Bakersfield Californian: Farmworkers, growers dissatisfied after overtime change
- 01/11/2022 The Sacramento Bee: California politics will be a lot less interesting without Lorena Gonzalez in Sacramento