United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 08/19/1999 Associated Pre: Committee Oks measure to require seatbelts in farm vehicles
- 08/19/1999 Los Angeles Tim: Coastal Berry tops UFW in balloting
- 08/17/1999 Associated Pre: Farm workers honor tomato pickers killed in van crash
- 08/16/1999 L.A. services mark one week since 13 farm workers died in Fresno van crash; Huerta helps collect signatures for reform bill
- 08/15/1999 Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazi: The Eternal Soldadera
- 08/13/1999 Fresno B: Victims’ families sue driver and trucking companies
- 08/12/1999 UFW, attorneys for crash victim families say state and U.S. laws fail to protect farm workers; lawsuit being filed over Monday’s accident
- 08/12/1999 Los Angeles Tim: Commentary: Farmhands Need Safe Transport
- 08/12/1999 San Jose Mercury Ne: Accident spurs action to protect farmworkers: Tragedy’s wake: Central Valley lawmakers debate seat-belt statute
- 08/11/1999 San Francisco Chronic: Farm Laborers Call Van Ticking Time Bomb/Valley legislator says he’ll push for stricter seat belt law
- 08/11/1999 Bakersfield Californi: Accident puts focus on safety
- 08/10/1999 KBAK TV (CBS Affiliate: Bakersfiel: Farm Worker terror: Delano police have booked a Kern County farmer on charges of assault with a deadl weapon……for allegedly firing several shots at three farm workers
- 08/10/1999 Los Angeles Tim: 13 in Farm Van Die as It Slams Into Trailer Rig
- 08/10/1999 Fresno Bee Crash kills 13 farmworkers: Van hits big rig making a U-turn on a rural road in Fresno County
- 08/09/1999 Tragedies will continue until growers held accountable for farm labor systems
- 07/21/1999 New York Tim: In an About-Face, Mushroom Farm Accepts Labor Union
- 07/21/1999 Tallahassee Democrat Bitter fight now a party at Quincy Farms: Workers at the mushroom company celebrate their long-sought union contract.
- 07/20/1999 Florida’s largest mushroom producer signs contract with United Farm Workers
- 06/23/1999 Associated Pre: Study: Some California farmworkers at risk from pesticide poisonings
- 06/23/1999 San Francisco Chronic: State Slammed On Pesticide Regulation: Environmentalists’ report says farmworkers risk poisoning
- 06/11/1999 L.A. Week: UFW Can’t Sell the Union Label: The UFW loses strawberry vote – to a group that walks and talks like a company union
- 06/09/1999 Sacramento B: Peter H. King: The strawberry picker in the faded red shirt
- 06/09/1999 San Francisco Bay Guardi: Field of schemes The UFW may have been defeated by a company union — and the state labor board is looking the other way.
- 06/07/1999 San Francisco Chronic: Why Strawberry Fields Have Been Barren for UFW/Many factors in union’s loss last week in Watsonville vote
- 06/06/1999 San Francisco Examin: UFW labors to find growth