United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 07/08/2008 SF Bay Guardian: Bucking off Chuck – Death of 17-year-old pregnant farm worker incites campaign against Trader Joe’s
- 07/08/2008 KERO ch 23: Farm Worker Killed By Tractor Remembered – UFW Says Accident Should Never Have Happened
- 07/06/2008 Stockton Record: Labor union seeks Trader Joe’s assistance – Calls on grocery chain to toughen vendor policies
- 07/04/2008 License Reinstatement Slap in the Face to the Memory of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez
- 07/04/2008 Sacramento Bee: Merced labor contractor reopens, then is shut down again
- 07/04/2008 Stockton Record: Labor firm ordered to cease again – It was shut down temporarily after teen worker died
- 07/04/2008 Central Valley Business Times: Farm labor contractor shut down – again. Merced Farm Labor was back in business until Thursday afternoon. Contractor not in compliance with regulations says CalOSHA
- 07/03/2008 San Francisco Chronicle: Farm firm back after teen’s death
- 07/03/2008 Bakersfield Californian: The onion harvest – Workers chase jobs throughout state
- 07/02/2008 The Cleveland Free Times: TWO-BUCK CHUCK DUCK
- 07/01/2008 KMPH: Heat Suspected in Valley Deaths
- 06/27/2008 The Dominion: Death in the Field – An interview with Arturo Rodriguez of the UFW
- 06/24/2008 The Desert Sun: Judge sides with farmworkers’ suit
- 06/24/2008 KSBY: Field worker dies on the job in Santa Maria Friday
- 06/23/2008 Riverside Press Enterprise: Judge orders shade, water for a company’s Coachella Valley farm workers
- 06/23/2008 La Opinion: Despedido luego de interponer demanda – Doroteo Jiménez es el tío de una campesina muerta por insolación
- 06/22/2008 Monterey County Herald: Heat is farmworker’s deadliest enemy
- 06/21/2008 ABC World News Tonight: Protecting Field Workers – Many migrant workers are in danger due to the extreme heat in California (video 2:52)
- 06/21/2008 Stockton Record: Uncle of girl who died from heatstroke is fired
- 06/20/2008 KNBC: Farm Workers Brave Heat
- 06/20/2008 UFW Condemns Firing of Doroteo Jimenez
- 06/20/2008 McCLATCHY News Service: Heat kills crop workers at rate 20 times higher than others
- 06/19/2008 Merced Sun Star: Family of teen who died in vineyard sues field owner, labor contractor (Print & video)
- 06/19/2008 Lodi News-Sentinel: 17-year-old died due to heat stroke
- 06/19/2008 Stockton Record: Coroner – Heat stroke killed laborer