United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 03/26/2022 San Antonio Express-News: ‘Yes, we can’ — César E. Chávez March for Justice returns to streets of San Antonio after two-year COVID hiatus
- 03/25/2022 Bakersfield Now: Jill Biden to visit Kern for citizenship event in remembrance of César Chávez
- 03/24/2022 San Antonio Express News: Editorial: Still marching for the justice Chávez sought
- 03/21/2022 Eater: What a Surge in Union Organizing Means for Food and Farm Workers
- 03/20/2022 New College of Florida: Nan Freeman Memorial Dedication to Pay Tribute to Late New College Alumna and Activist
- 03/17/2022 Civil Eats: What a Surge in Union Organizing Means for Food and Farm Workers
- 03/16/2022 Food Tank: “Without the Farm Worker This Business Doesn’t Get to Exist,” Says Soren Bjorn
- 03/15/2022 KCET: Photo Essay: Farmworkers Advocate for Their Right to Thrive
- 03/11/2022 The Fresno Bee: Labor advocates: State agencies need to be more efficient
- 03/10/2022 Modern Farmer: Oregon Becomes Eighth State to Pass Overtime Pay for Farmworkers
- 03/04/2022 USA Today: Labor rights groups push for reform of farmworker visa program in wake of human trafficking case
- 03/03/2022 Portland Tribune: Farmworker overtime bill passes Legislature
- 03/03/2022 Klamath Falls News: Oregon House and Senate pass farmworkers overtime bill
- 03/01/2022 Successful Farming: USDA Equity Commission task: ‘Prevent wrongs in the future’
- 02/25/2022 East Idaho News: Idaho farm gave workers a choice: Illegal low wages or deportation, investigation finds
- 02/23/2022 Business Insider: An Idaho potato farm threatened to fire foreign workers and deport them to Mexico if they didn’t accept wages below the legal limit, the DOL says
- 02/23/2022 KMVT 11: US Department of Labor finds Idaho potato farm shortchanges wages for guest workers
- 02/22/2022 Oregon Capital Chronicle: Proposal to pay farmworkers overtime goes to joint bipartisan committee to resolve
- 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