United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 05/15/2002 Nationwide Campaign to Raise A Million Voices for the Legalization of Hardworking Immigrant Families
- 05/07/2002 Salinas Californian: Area observers back INS split – Don’t expect results overnight, citizenship expert says
- 05/05/2002 San Francisco Chronicle: UFW could force Davis’ hand – No middle road on farm labor issue
- 05/03/2002 Press Associates: “Labor’s pastor,” Msgr. George Higgins, dies at 86
- 05/02/2002 UFW mourns Msgr. George Higgins, one of Cesar Chavez’s ‘greatest champions’
- 04/28/2002 Hundreds join farm worker march in Oxnard to honor Chavez and vow to continue his work
- 04/24/2002 Sacramento Bee: UFW clash with growers looming – A new bill would mandate arbitration when contract talks hit an impasse
- 04/24/2002 Ventura County Star: Ventura-UFW mushroom fight could spark reform
- 04/23/2002 Nine years after his death, Cesar Chavez rose planting at Capitol kicks off drive by UFW to fix ‘flawed’ farm labor law
- 04/22/2002 U.S. News & World Report: Ripe for abuse Farmworkers say organic growers don’t always treat them as well as they do your food
- 04/16/2002 Riverside Press Enterprise: Study links risks, farms CANCER: Migrant workers are found to have a higher incidence than other Hispanics
- 04/07/2002 Thousands walk in L.A. to honor Cesar Chavez & 40th anniversary of the union he founded
- 04/02/2002 Los Angeles Times: Farm Workers Celebrate Safety Law, Chavez Holiday
- 04/02/2002 Stockton Record : State, S.J. reflect on deceased farm labor activist’s life, work
- 04/02/2002 Fresno Bee : New law recalls ag van crash victims
- 04/01/2002 United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO Tout Victory for Worker Protections on Chavez Day
- 04/01/2002 Associated Press: California honors Cesar Chavez on second annual holiday
- 04/01/2002 San Francisco Chronicle: Cesar Chavez Day – Honoring a Man of the People: ‘Si, se puede — it can be done’
- 03/31/2002 Associated Press: Unusual partnership between union, company yields Cesar Chavez rose
- 03/29/2002 Associated Press: FARM SCENE: Bill would limit weed pulling for farmworkers
- 03/29/2002 Cartoonista.com/pocho.com: a Lalo Alcaraz Cartoon: Cesar Chavez Day 2002
- 03/28/2002 Los Angeles Times: TV Ads Seek Farm Workers Who Are Due Pensions
- 03/28/2002 Los Angeles Times: High Court Ruling Hurts Union Goals of Immigrants Labor: An employer can fire an illegal worker trying to organize, the justices decide. Exploitation is feared.
- 03/28/2002 Ventura County Star: Labor backers fume over worker ruling
- 03/27/2002 U.S. high court annuls labor laws, creates ‘permanent underclass of semi-slave laborers,’ sparks anti-GOP anger by Latinos