United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 07/31/2008 Environmental News Service: Enviro-Labor Coalitions Challenge Two Toxic Pesticides
- 07/29/2008 Monterey County Herald: Groups file suit over pesticide use
- 07/28/2008 EPA Under Fire For Flawed Pesticide Decisions
- 07/28/2008 Stockton Record: Safety in the spotlight – Contractor’s fines in farm worker’s death send an important message
- 07/26/2008 San Francisco Chronicle: How food industry lobbying slowed salmonella search
- 07/26/2008 Bakersfield Californian: What’s enough shade at work? Rule interpretation varies greatly
- 07/25/2008 Sacramento Bee: Lawsuit targets pesticide
- 07/24/2008 Stockton Record: State fines labor firm over death
- 07/24/2008 Lawsuit Asks EPA to End Use of Hazardous Pesticide in USA
- 07/24/2008 Fines aren’t enough. There must be criminal prosecution in the death of 17-year old heat victim
- 07/24/2008 San Francisco Bay Guardian: Death of teen immigrant farm worker nets $260K fine
- 07/24/2008 Associated Press: Group sues to ban DDT-related pesticide
- 07/23/2008 Sacramento Bee: Farm labor contracting company fined after heat stroke death
- 07/23/2008 Associated Press: Farm labor contractor fined in worker’s death
- 07/22/2008 Alternet: How Many More Workers Will We Let Die in the Fields This Summer?
- 07/20/2008 Los Angeles Times, Opinion: Downsizing government to death – Thanks to ‘E. coli conservatism,’ weakened government watchdogs have put us all at risk.
- 07/20/2008 KMPH: Valley Family Says Heat Exhaustion Killed Relative
- 07/19/2008 Associated Press: Fourth possible heat-related death investigated
- 07/18/2008 The Free Press: A summer of deadly heat, by Dick Meister
- 07/17/2008 Fresno Bee: Migrant ed program helps fight heat danger
- 07/17/2008 Los Angeles Times: Grief-stricken family gathers at crash site near Westley, Calif.
- 07/16/2008 Associated Press: Bodies of 8 sought in Calif. canal after crash
- 07/16/2008 Associated Press: Farmworker clings to life after heat stroke
- 07/16/2008 KBAK Ch 29: Last week’s heat wave takes it toll on residents of Bakersfield
- 07/15/2008 Audio: KPFK Evening News- UFW delegation turns in close to 15,000 letters to Trander Joe’s regarding Charles Shaw and the heat heath of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez