United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 08/23/2008 Sacramento Bee: Coroner confirms – Heat killed farmworker
- 08/23/2008 Sacramento Bee: Editorial: Piecework pay needs reforms – CURRENT SYSTEM HAS NO INCENTIVES FOR FARMWORKER SAFETY IN FIELDS
- 08/23/2008 KFSN 30: U.F.W. Convention in Downtown Fresno
- 08/23/2008 KSEE: United Farm Workers Convention in Fresno
- 08/22/2008 Hillary Clinton, Bobby Kennedy Jr. headline UFW convention’s push for Obama; Organizing plus state labor and U.S. immigration reforms are also central themes
- 08/21/2008 Sacramento Bee: In California’s fields, risks rise with the temperature
- 08/21/2008 Fresno Bee: Hillary Clinton, Robert Kennedy Jr. coming to Fresno
- 08/21/2008 Associated Press: More farm deaths in heat despite Calif. crackdown
- 08/21/2008 Complaint Filed on Behalf of H2A Workers in Sacramento, Co.
- 08/18/2008 Associated Press: California could change farm worker union votes
- 08/17/2008 Salinas Californian: More than 700 farm workers to rally in Capitol against heat-related deaths
- 08/15/2008 More than 700 Farm Workers will Lobby State Legislators
- 08/13/2008 San Luis Obispo Times: Farmworkers call for action against heat deaths
- 08/12/2008 Lodi News-Sentinel: State fines Galt contractor $77,900 for safety violations
- 08/11/2008 KMIR Channel 6: Farm Worker Death
- 08/09/2008 Riverside Press Enterprise: Inland farmworker’s death is investigated
- 08/08/2008 Coachella Valley Farm Worker Latest Victim to Succumb to Probable Heat-Related Causes
- 08/08/2008 KBAK: Funeral service held today for a farm worker who died from heat
- 08/07/2008 Funeral Arrangements for Jorge Herrera, 5th farm worker to die this year due to heat
- 08/06/2008 Wenatchee World: Farmworkers union complains about Mathison orchard
- 08/02/2008 Los Angeles Times: A real heat shield for farmworkers
- 08/02/2008 Fresno Bee: Farmworker dies after collapsing at vineyards
- 08/01/2008 Heatstroke Claims Life of 14th Farm Worker; Jorge Herrera Had Been Hospitalized Since July 9
- 08/01/2008 Central Valley Business Times: Another farm worker dies from heat illness – Fifth death this summer, ‘The black summer for farm workers’
- 08/01/2008 Associated Press: State probes 12 possible worker heat deaths