United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 08/30/2001 The Monitor: Fight for Benefits UFW stages protest, demands amnesty for immigrant workers
- 08/30/2001 San Francisco Chronicle: UFW makes contract with furniture firm: Union to represent nonfarm workers
- 08/29/2001 UFW celebrates Chaddock contract with workers, local labor & political leader
- 08/29/2001 Associated Press: United Farm Workers union announced first non-farm contract
- 08/22/2001 Fresno Bee: 59% say legalize migrant workers
- 08/21/2001 Two weeks before Bush-Fox immigration talks, bipartisan poll shows majority of voters back legalization for hard-working, taxpaying immigrants
- 08/09/2001 Sacramento Bee: Big year for farm workers in state: The latest win is a law that reforms the contracting system.
- 08/09/2001 Fresno Bee: Davis OKs law on farm wages – Crackdown on cheating employers is a UFW first.
- 08/09/2001 Ventura County Star: UFW says Pictsweet position hypocritical
- 08/09/2001 Tri-City Herald: NAFTA forum discusses concerns
- 08/08/2001 U.S., Mexican Officials to Hear Workers’ Claims in Trade, Labor Rights Dispute under NAFTA; Sanctions Could Result Union to Launch “Fair Trade Apple” Campaign
- 08/08/2001 UFW hails governor’s signing of its farm labor contractor reform bills
- 08/08/2001 Fresno Bee: Davis signs ag tax relief, studies labor crackdown Farmers praise the governor at the Tulare signing, hope he vetoes farmworker bill.
- 08/06/2001 Yakima Herald: Thousands Fill Yakima Streets
- 08/05/2001 Up to 5,000 Wash. state apple workers march for better pay, push UFW bills to legalize undocumented farm laborers
- 08/04/2001 Sacramento Bee: Like other undocumented farm workers in California, Gabriela Hernandez hoped to build a future. Instead, she awoke, paralyzed from a van crash … ‘I thought I was dead’: Farm labor van safety program falls short
- 08/04/2001 Ventura County Star: Pictsweet workers gain new support
- 08/03/2001 Bakersfield Californian: UFW chief rallies support for proposals
- 08/03/2001 Mayor, two workers from Salem, Ore. Pictsweet plant plant to brief Ventura County, Calif. civic leaders about company injustices in the Pacific Northwest
- 08/02/2001 Kennedy & Berman introduce UFW bills to legalize 500,000 undocumented farm workers
- 07/21/2001 Sacramento Bee: Davis gets legislation to stiffen farm laws
- 07/20/2001 Sacramento Bee: Bush rekindles immigration debate
- 07/19/2001 Strengthened’ UFW farm labor contractor bill seeks beefed up enforcement for cheating workers
- 07/19/2001 San Francisco Chronicle: Hard work, fair pay (opinion page)
- 07/14/2001 Ventura County Star: Rabbi group backs UFW in Pictsweet action