United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 02/12/2003 UFW helps 37 artichoke workers win more than $181,000 for unpaid work
- 02/11/2003 Los Angeles Times – UFW Wins Vote at Berry Grower – After a three-year battle, the union will represent nearly 900 pickers in Watsonville.
- 02/11/2003 Associated Press – UFW wins right to represent NorCal strawberry workers
- 02/10/2003 Associated Press – Farm workers win back wages in Monterey County settlement over mandatory travel time
- 01/22/2003 Bush war in Iraq would bring ‘lasting harm’ to democracy at home, UFW says
- 12/30/2002 UFW endorses Arambula for Assembly
- 12/09/2002 UFW backs IID water transfer if it includes $70 million in aid for ‘left-out’ Imperial farm worker communities
- 12/03/2002 Associated Press – Co-founder of United Farm Workers to receive Puffin/Nation Prize
- 12/02/2002 Modesto Bee – 1 Obscure board key to new farm labor law
- 11/16/2002 Los Angeles Times- UFW Pensions Catch Many by Surprise
- 11/15/2002 Retired Vegetable worker to get pension check for more than $10,000; UFW appeals to workers who may not know they qualify
- 11/14/2002 Final farm worker push for Latino voter turnout Monday
- 11/14/2002 Retired lettuce worker to get pension check for more than $48,000; UFW appeals to workers who may not know they qualify
- 11/04/2002 Final farm worker push for Latino voter turnout Monday in Coachella and Calexico
- 11/04/2002 Prospect Magazine – The Left Coast Goes Lefter: Even Gray Davis gets swept along
- 10/31/2002 First Lady Sharon Davis at Fresno farm worker-built housing project & radio station with UFW’s Arturo Rodriguez
- 10/20/2002 The Sacramento Bee – Chavez, Steinbeck:The ties that bind
- 10/20/2002 Background about Gov. Gray Davis’ record on farm workers
- 10/20/2002 Three farm worker rallies Sunday feature Gov. Davis and Lt. Gov. Bustamante; thanks offered for historic farm labor bills (news release & Arturo Rodriguez’ statement)
- 10/03/2002 Los Angeles Times 1 UFW Used Brinkmanship to Win 2 Laws – Labor: The union’s legislative team cornered Gov. Davis into signing mediation bills.
- 10/02/2002 Los Angeles Times 1 Pickers in Ventura Hope New Law Resolves Dispute – Agriculture: At the Pictsweet Mushroom Farm, held up as a symbol of union battle, workers look to mandatory mediation for a contract.
- 10/01/2002 Associated Press 1 Gov. Gray Davis signs farmworker mediation bills
- 10/01/2002 San Francisco Chronicle 1 Farmworkers get boost from Davis – Flurry of action on bills as midnight deadline arrives
- 10/01/2002 Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on Gov. Gray Davis’ Signing Historic Farm Workers Rights Legislation
- 09/30/2002 L .A. & Sacramento prayer vigils count down final hours before Gov. Davis acts on historic farm worker rights legislation