United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 09/21/2005 Fargo North Dakota Forum: Dairy under scrutiny
- 09/18/2005 San Francisco Chronicle – Ripe crops languish in the fields: It’s harvest time in the Central Valley, but where are the farmworkers?
- 09/14/2005 Associated Press: UFW signs contract with Gallo of Sonoma after 2-year battle
- 09/14/2005 Farm workers and supporters toast the UFW’s new contract with Gallo
- 09/13/2005 Associated Press: Farm workers file complaint alleging intimidation during union vote
- 09/12/2005 Grape workers ask ALRB to investigate threats and intimidation by Giumarra
- 09/02/2005 Associated Press: Grape pickers’ UFW vote undetermined
- 09/01/2005 KGET: Workers decide whether or not to join union
- 08/31/2005 Los Angeles Times: UFW Thinks Climate Is Right to Grow Its Ranks
- 08/31/2005 Grape worker grievances fuel biggest field organizing drive since 1970s
- 08/30/2005 KGET Ch 17: Farm workers demand better treatment, wages
- 08/30/2005 KBAK Ch 23: Workers rally for support to join United Farm Workers union
- 08/17/2005 San Diego Union Tribune: Workers, employers weigh impact of rules to protect against heat
- 08/08/2005 KGET: Pesticide exposure sends workers to hospital
- 08/07/2005 Boston Globe : Heat takes its toll in fields, and California seeks relief
- 08/04/2005 Los Angeles Times Editorial: Battling the heat
- 08/03/2005 San Francisco Chronicle : State seeks to halt farmworker deaths : New rules on breaks after 5 lose their lives in heat of summer
- 08/03/2005 Los Angeles Times : Gov. Orders Shade, Water for Workers Sickened by Heat
- 08/03/2005 Bakersfield California : Services held for laborer
- 08/02/2005 Services for Constantino Cruz, 5th valley farm worker to die from heat in July
- 08/02/2005 KGET : Governor approves heat legislation
- 08/02/2005 UFW hails ‘historic breakthrough for farm workers’
- 07/28/2005 Los Angeles Times : Deaths Rally Farm Laborers: Three men have died after working in the recent intense heat of the Central Valley, sparking a demand for more safeguards.
- 07/23/2005 Memorial service for Salud Zamudio Rodriguez, farm worker who died last week from the heat
- 07/23/2005 Sacramento Bee : Deaths prompt call for heat rules