United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 07/02/2021 Al Dia News: Amid Pacific Northwest heatwave, too much emphasis is on Washington’s cherry harvest, and not those doing it
- 07/02/2021 Farm Workers from Georgia, WA state at White House on 4th of July
- 07/01/2021 Idaho Statesman: Dangerous heat wave continues to broil Idaho. How can farmworkers be protected?
- 07/01/2021 The Huffington Post: These Are Your Rights At Work When It Is Dangerously Hot
- 07/01/2021 New York Magazine: ‘It’s Just Devastating to See These Conditions’
- 07/01/2021 The Associated Press: Biden to host naturalization event, push path to citizenship
- 07/01/2021 Farm workers urge Senator Alex Padilla continue pressing for legalization
- 06/29/2021 NBC News: Union calls for ‘urgent’ farmworker protections during Washington’s record heat
- 06/29/2021 The Washington Post: Blackouts in US Northwest due to heat wave, deaths reported
- 06/29/2021 Statesman Journal: Farmworker dies in Willamette Valley record heat
- 06/29/2021 Vice: Farmworkers Endure Brutal Conditions During Historic Heat Wave
- 06/29/2021 The Seattle Times: Farmworkers push through hottest temperatures on record in Washington
- 06/29/2021 UFW, UFW Fd. urge Gov. Inslee to issue emergency heat protections for farm & outdoor workers amid record heat
- 06/28/2021 Politico: The heat is on, in a bad way
- 06/28/2021 KGW 8: Tracking heat wave impact on Pacific Northwest crops, farm workers
- 06/25/2021 U.S. News & World Report: Colorado Governor Signs Farmworker Rights and Wages Law
- 06/23/2021 CAL Matters: Supreme Court limits California union recruiting in favor of property rights
- 06/23/2021 United Farm Workers’ Statement on Supreme Court Decision
- 06/20/2021 The Washington Post: Farmworkers and construction crews face special danger as an extreme heat wave continues to bake the West
- 06/20/2021 ABC News: Farmworkers especially vulnerable as dangerous heat wave scorches wide swath of US
- 06/18/2021 Bloomberg: Workers Critical to U.S. Fruit Supplies Face Danger From Extreme Hea
- 06/17/2021 Statesman Journal: Opinion: Protect workers from smoke exposure
- 06/16/2021 Agri-Pulse: Ag, farmworkers push for farm labor fix in Senate
- 06/15/2021 DACA recipients, farm worker sons and daughters, call on Senate Democrats to pass pathway to citizenship nine years after DACA
- 06/14/2021 NBC News: Why are workers in the U.S. still dying from heat exhaustion?