United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 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
- 01/11/2022 Daily Kos: ‘A great triumph for us’: California law giving farmworkers overtime time pay fully kicks in
- 01/09/2022 The Fresno Bee: California farmworkers now get overtime pay after 8 hours. Some growers say it’s a problem
- 01/08/2022 USNews: Maine Governor Vetoes Bill to Allow Farm Workers to Unionize
- 01/08/2022 The Hill: Maine governor cites rising costs in veto of farmer unionization bill
- 01/07/2022 KVPR: California farmworkers can now get overtime pay after 8 hours.
- 01/05/2022 Newsweek: AOC Uses Waitress Experience to Call Out Eric Adams For ‘Low-Skilled’ Worker Comments
- 01/04/2022 Mourning original UFW member Antonia “Tonia” Saludado Reading