United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 02/19/1999 Washington Po: Pesticide levels cited as risk to children: Produce items may exceed EPA guidlines
- 02/19/1999 PR Newswi: Governor Davis announces state freeze relief efforts
- 02/16/1999 Fresno B: Visalia’s Vons delivers giant truckload of relief
- 02/12/1999 Fresno B: Vons to donate $200,000 of aid
- 02/11/1999 First of six 18-wheel Vons trucks with food and baby supplies heads from L.A. store to stricken Valley citrus belt
- 02/10/1999 Fresno B: Freeze disaster declared
- 02/09/1999 UFW: Stricken citrus workers awaiting relief from President Clinton’s disaster declaration
- 02/09/1999 Associated Pre: President declares California’s $656 million crop-killing freeze a disaster
- 02/08/1999 Associated Pre: Freeze hits workers hard, too: Jobless seek help in paying overdue bills
- 02/02/1999 State Health & Welfare Secretary Grantland Johnson, Deputy Assistant of the U.S. Department of Labor Theodore Mastroianni, other top state & U.S. officials to hear relief appeals from 400 citrus workers
- 02/02/1999 Fresno B: Freeze in human terms
- 01/27/1999 Sacramento B: Davis appoints 3 allies to ALRB–for a day: Maneuver creates friendly majority for single meeting
- 01/22/1999 Fresno B: UFW distributes hope, food
- 01/21/1999 UFW hands out 10 tons of food to rural farm worker freeze victims underserved by relief efforts
- 01/19/1999 Strawberry workers victims of violence at sit-in protest over ALRB’s refusal to prosecute; UFW’s Huerta decries 16 years of agency inaction
- 01/17/1999 Sacramento B: ALRB critics pin hopes on Davis: Farm worker union officials claim years of neglect by GOP governors
- 01/17/1999 Los Angeles Tim: Area growers fear power may erode under Davis
- 01/11/1999 Hispanic Li: Latino leaders assist workers frozen out of jobs
- 12/22/1998 San Jose Mercury Ne: Berry pickers to share $283,000, grower settles suit over unpaid labor
- 12/21/1998 UFW’s Rodriguez to announce $283,000 for 491 Reiter berry workers from settlement of federal class action suit alledging work without pay
- 12/17/1998 Clergy report on Watsonville-area strawberry worker abuses, join UFW’s Dolores Huerta in launching drive among Bay Area congregations
- 12/08/1998 Monterey Hera: Environmentalist decry cutting pesticide buffers
- 12/01/1998 Veteran Labor Journalist David Bacon, December, 1998: Judge overturns company union victory in Watsonville
- 11/21/1998 San Jose Mercury Ne: State shrinks buffer zone for use of pesticides
- 11/20/1998 Gov.-elect Davis names UFW’s Rodriguez to ‘elite panel’ crafting policy on water and agricultural matters