United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 06/02/2006 Napa Valley wine workers ask Krug-Mondavi to avoid nationwide boycott
- 06/02/2006 Press Democrat: UFW threatens winery boycott – Charles Krug planning July layoffs; labor leaders to urge contract renegotiation
- 06/01/2006 San Francisco Chronicle: Union to protest planned job cuts at Charles Krug St. Helena winery wants to use land manager for farming work
- 05/26/2006 Portland Oregonian: EPA workers blast agency’s ruling
- 05/21/2006 Monterey Herald: Immigration rally set today
- 05/18/2006 Rio Grande Guardian: LUPE members deliver thousands of postcards to Cornyn’s office
- 05/17/2006 KGET (Video): National Lobby Day brings UFW postcard campaign
- 05/17/2006 Scripps Howard News Service: Senate makes progress on immigration bill
- 05/16/2006 KGET (Video): Heat Protection for farm workers
- 05/11/2006 Bakersfield Californian: Women report harassment at Grimmway
- 05/11/2006 The Monitor (TX): Local officials encouraging activity in immigration reform
- 05/11/2006 Santa Rosa Press Democrat: UFW joins fray on immigration
- 05/11/2006 Yakima Herald Republic: Pesticide spraying issue returns
- 05/11/2006 Monterey Herald: Immigrant allies plan next push
- 05/11/2006 Ventura County Star: Immigration rights activists call for postcards to Congress
- 05/11/2006 Bakersfield Californian: UFW plan: Flood Congress with 1 million postcards
- 05/11/2006 Santa Cruz Sentinal: UFW takes part in national campaign to raise 1 million cards
- 05/10/2006 UFW & coalitions that organized rural May 1 protests unveil lobbying drive to enact genuine immigration reform
- 05/08/2006 Modesto Bee: Could protests be birth of new social crusade?
- 05/05/2006 Associated Press: Report says workers seen by pesticide sprayers
- 05/02/2006 Porterville Recorder: Thousands march for migrants
- 05/02/2006 Seattle Times: Yakima rally invokes history of immigrant movement
- 05/02/2006 Time Magazine: A Day Without Immigrants: Making a Statement
- 05/02/2006 Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Political protest makes history
- 05/02/2006 Talahassee Democrat (Video): Supporters of a national trend rally in Quincy,FL