United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 09/17/2000 Seattle Times: Farm Workers’ co-founder joins hunger strike
- 09/13/2000 Ag Alert : Governor’s approval expected on new farm labor legislation
- 09/07/2000 Sacramento Bee: Help for farm workers: AB 2862 — a real tribute to Cesar Chavez
- 09/06/2000 Los Angeles Times: Wash. Workers Seek to Reap More Fruit for Their Labors
- 09/04/2000 Fresno Bee: Valley man voted into No. 2 post
- 09/03/2000 Fresno Bee: Governor heralds changes: Davis signs 3 key farm labor bills before addressing 1,000 at the UFW meeting in Fresno.
- 09/03/2000 Fresno Bee: Dolores Huerta eases out of farm-labor role: Key UFW leader opts to devote time to other projects, including Al Gore’s presidential bid
- 09/03/2000 Associated Press: Calif. governor signs farmworker safety bills, addresses UFW convention
- 09/03/2000 Farm workers end longest-ever harvest-time strike
- 09/03/2000 UFW chooses new No. 2 officer; four others added to union’s expanded executive board
- 09/02/2000 Los Angeles Times: UFW Wins Contract With Gallo
- 09/01/2000 Gov. Davis headlines UFW convention as Labor Day weekend gathering focuses on amnesty, fall election & organizing
- 09/01/2000 UFW convention will name union’s political fund for Joe Serna Jr.
- 09/01/2000 Lt. Gov. Bustamante addresses dinner at UFW’s Labor Day weekend convention
- 09/01/2000 Associated Press: Gallo reaches agreement with United Farm Workers; pay raises in store for general laborers
- 08/30/2000 Ventura mushroom workers take demands for UFW contract to busy East L.A. intersection, talk about boycott
- 08/25/2000 Ventura County Star: Pictsweet workers threaten boycott
- 08/19/2000 San Francisco Chronicle: DavislDeclares Holiday To Honor Cesar Chavez Schoolchildren to study his life, do social service
- 08/18/2000 UFW kicks off drive to register Latinos & farm workers in Salinas
- 08/18/2000 Chavez’s family and UFW successor at bill signing, hail Chavez holiday as unique
- 08/10/2000 Associated Press: Cesar Legislature approves March 31 state holiday honoring Cesar Chavez
- 08/10/2000 Statement from Cesar Chavez’s widow, Helen, on passage of state Chavez holiday bill
- 08/10/2000 UFW reply to Bush’s farm worker & Latino appeal: ‘look beyond rhetoric to policies’
- 08/09/2000 Cartoonista.com: a Lalo Alcaraz Cartoon: George P. Bush’s hunky Hispanic history minute! – Cesar Chavez & George W. Bush: Two Hispanic heros
- 08/07/2000 Generation Mex : a Lalo Alcaraz Column: Amazing Similarities between Cesar Chavez and George W. Bush