United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 07/20/2010 Sacramento Bee: Farmworkers turn up heat on Schwarzenegger to sign OT bill
- 07/20/2010 NBC Bay Area: Gov. could sign bill that passed CA Assembly and Senate
- 07/20/2010 Los Angeles Times: Farmworkers pray for Schwarzenegger to sign overtime bill
- 07/20/2010 KSBW The Central Coast: Bill Would Give Farmworkers Overtime After 8 Hours
- 07/20/2010 KCRA Sacramento: UFW Takes Pay Fight To State Capitol
- 07/20/2010 89.3 KPCC: New California law would change overtime rules for farm workers (includes audio)
- 07/20/2010 Capitol Public Radio: Farm Workers Push Governor to Sign Bill Expanding Overtime (includes audio)
- 07/20/2010 Video: Florez Farm Worker Overtime Bill Hand Delivered to Governor’s Desk (16:54)
- 07/19/2010 Dateline NBC: America Now: Children of the Harvest, July 26, 2010 (Video 6:13; include transcript)
- 07/19/2010 KSEE24: Farmworker Death Shows Need for Heat Safety in the Fields (mostly video 1:52)
- 07/19/2010 In These Times: On the Border and in the Fields, Dying from the Heat
- 07/19/2010 Sacramento Bee: Possible link to heat exposure investigated in 5 California worker deaths
- 07/19/2010 ABC7.com: Farm workers push bill for overtime pay (includes video 2:06)
- 07/19/2010 Farm workers, led by UFW president & Sen. Florez, hand deliver overtime bill to Gov. Schwarzenegger (With video and statement by UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez)
- 07/17/2010 Visalia Times-Delta: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may decide on overtime proposal for farmworkers by next week
- 07/17/2010 KFSN TV: Earlimart Farmworker’s death under investigation(includes video 2:24)
- 07/16/2010 Bakersfield Californian: Farmworker’s death under investigation
- 07/16/2010 Sacramento Bee: Cal-OSHA probing whether farmworker death is heat-related
- 07/16/2010 New York Times Editorial, Jobs for the Picking
- 07/16/2010 Los Angeles Times: Arizona immigration law motivates California’s Latino voters
- 07/16/2010 Stockton Record (CA): Deal could spare jail in farm worker death
- 07/16/2010 UFW Laments The Death of a Farm Worker Who Died While Laboring in an Arvin Vineyard
- 07/15/2010 Bakersfield Now: Man dies after collapsing in fields
- 07/15/2010 Half Moon Bay Review: Protesters march for workers’ rights
- 07/15/2010 Ventura County Reporter: Farmworker union says, “Take our jobs”