United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 02/12/2010 FAMILY OF INDIGENOUS FARMWORKERS CHARGES GIUMARRA VINEYARDS WITH ILLEGAL SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
- 02/11/2010 Ventura County Star: Toxicologists say methyl iodide poses health risks
- 02/11/2010 ABC News: Labor Dep’t Approves New Rules on Farm Workers – Labor Dep’t reverses Bush-era regulations on seasonal foreign farm workers
- 02/11/2010 U.S. Labor Dept. reinstates decades-old farm worker protections rules – UFW applauds return to bi-partisan farm worker regulations
- 02/10/2010 Change to Win Statement on the U.S. Senate’s Failure to Debate the onfirmation of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board
- 02/08/2010 UFW and nation’s ag leaders pushing for immigration reform meet with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
- 02/06/2010 Roseville Press Tribune: United Farm Workers (UFW) Endorses Senator Dean Florez For Lt. Governor
- 02/03/2010 Daily Kos: Fight Sexual Harrassment in the Fields – Sign the UFW Petition
- 02/02/2010 THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH: Issue 2 countermeasure in works –
- 01/28/2010 President Obama urges lawmakers to fix broken immigration system in State of the Union address
- 01/28/2010 Ventura County Star: Dozens join immigration reform vigil
- 01/19/2010 Legislative Gazette – Farmworker bill amended; resistance doesn’t fade away
- 01/14/2010 Bakersfield Californian: Lawsuit alleges Giumarra allowed sexual harassment
- 01/14/2010 Dallas Morning News: State hearing on social studies curriculum draws crowd
- 01/13/2010 CBS Ch 29 (Bakersfieldnow.com): Kern grower faces sexual harassment suit
- 01/13/2010 News from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Giumarra Vineyards Sued by EEOC for Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Against Farm Workers
- 01/13/2010 Alter Net: Study – Immigration Reform Will Ease Economic Decline
- 01/13/2010 UFW: Stop Texas from erasing Cesar Chavez and all Hispanics from school textbooks
- 01/13/2010 CNSnews.com (AP): Texas braces for fight over social studies lessons
- 01/13/2010 ABC News (AP): Texas debates how history will be taught
- 01/13/2010 News 8 Austin: Public hearing sparks religious conversation (includes video 1:41)
- 01/12/2010 Diverse Communities in Central Valley, CA Come Together and Join 50 State Strategy of the National Campaign to Reform Immigration FOR America
- 01/05/2010 Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Lowered expectations for immigrant rights advocates
- 12/31/2009 Daily News, Editorial: Not fit for man or beast: State can’t let horses win more labor rights than farmworkers
- 12/22/2009 Statement from the Farm Worker Movement: Mourning the passing of Jon Lewis, who captured the images and devotion of 1960s grape strikers