United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 06/19/2008 Sacramento Bee: Farmworker’s family sues over California heat-related death
- 06/18/2008 CTW Connect: UFW Endorses Obama
- 06/18/2008 La Opinion: Demandan por campesina muerta
- 06/18/2008 KSEE 24: Lawsuit filed against labor contractor after pregnant worker’s death
- 06/18/2008 ABC 30 (Video): Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Following Death of Teen Farm Worker
- 06/18/2008 Associated Press: County officials say farmworker died of heat stroke
- 06/17/2008 KRCA: Family Of Dead Farmworker Plans Lawsuit
- 06/17/2008 Wrongful Death Lawsuit to be Filed on Behalf of Family of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez
- 06/16/2008 Stockton Record: Attention to farm safety is overdue
- 06/16/2008 Salinas Californian: United Farm Workers to endorse Obama
- 06/15/2008 Modesto Bee: Second farm contractor ordered to shut down
- 06/14/2008 United Farm Workers Endorses Sen. Obama
- 06/13/2008 ABC 30 (Video): Workplace Heat -Two Companies Feel the Heat after the Death of an Employee
- 06/13/2008 CBS 47: Farms Raided to Protect Farmworkers
- 06/13/2008 Stockton Record: Labor contractor barred from fields
- 06/13/2008 Decanter.com: Worker died pruning on Two Buck Chuck co-owner’s land
- 06/13/2008 Modesto Bee: State shuts down Merced Farm Labor
- 06/13/2008 Lodi News-Sentinel: Contractor that hired farmworker who died put out of business
- 06/12/2008 MAS: Good times – Chicano tradition comes full circle at La Paz
- 06/10/2008 Sacramento Bee: Labor inspectors root out violations along Central Valley back roads
- 06/05/2008 The Guardian: Migrant farmworker’s death in US highlights poor labour conditions
- 06/05/2008 Associated Press: Farmworker’s death prompts calls for Calif. reform
- 06/05/2008 Sacramento Bee: Video: March to the capitol
- 06/05/2008 Sacramento Bee: State to revoke license of farm labor contractor
- 06/05/2008 Stockton Record Net Video: Farm labor advocates called on state legislators to amend a bill that would make it easier for farm workers to unionize after a four-day march from Lodi and vigil for Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez, the pregnant, 17-year-old farm worker who died May 16 of a heat-related illness she suffered while working in a Farmington vineyard.