United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 08/21/1998 World’s largest rose grower breaks ground on new $5 million, 150-job rose packing plant & signs new UFW contract
- 08/18/1998 Jackson to D’Arrigo: ‘time for you to sign a union contract is long overdue’
- 08/18/1998 L.A. City Council to pass resolution backing D’Arrigo workers in 3rd week of strike against huge vegetable grower
- 08/13/1998 San Francisco Chronic: After 23 Years, Farm Workers Demand Deal
- 08/12/1998 San Jose Mercury Ne: Salinas grower wins restraining order: Harvesting of rappini hurt by UFW strike
- 08/12/1998 D’Arrigo strikers appeal for support in S.F.’s Italian & Asian communities
- 08/09/1998 D’Arrigo workers use Sunday march to rally support for walkouts
- 08/07/1998 San Jose Mercury Ne: 350 UFW members continue walkout
- 08/07/1998 Associated Pre: Coastal Berry Co. protests union election that elected anti-UFW group
- 08/07/1998 Nearly 400 D’Arrigo workers continue walkouts; harvesting halted as more strikebreakers leave fields Friday
- 08/06/1998 San Francisco Examin: UFW objections delays result on union election
- 08/06/1998 Scabs leave D’Arrigo fields as walkouts continue in push for contract; UFW filing charges of bad faith bargaining
- 08/05/1998 San Francisco Bay Guardian, Week of Aug. 5, 1998: Spoiled strawberries – Growers’ latest tactic to fight the UFW: a union of their own.
- 08/05/1998 San Francisco Examin: State panel delays strawberry ruling
- 08/05/1998 Bakersfield Californi: Farm workers stage walkout
- 08/05/1998 Biggest walkouts in years hit Salinas vegetable industry; D’Arrigo workers demanding UFW contract halt harvest
- 08/03/1998 Press Democr: UFW win: Isolated case or sign of more to come?
- 08/02/1998 San Jose Mercury Ne: Dozens of UFW workers boycott job at Salinas farm
- 08/01/1998 San Jose Mercury Ne: UFW adds to its challenge of election
- 07/31/1998 Over 300 D’Arrigo vegetable workers walk off the job protesting bad faith bargaining
- 07/31/1998 New York Tim: A Union Vote Sows Bitterness in California Strawberry Fields
- 07/31/1998 Los Angeles Tim: Berry Firm Broke Law, Union Claims
- 07/31/1998 “Union” Election at Coastal Berry in Doubt as ALRB Gets Evidence That At Least 162 Workers Never Had Opportunity to Vote
- 07/29/1998 San Francisco Chronic: Labor leaders, lawmakers blast ALRB’s handling of strawberry election
- 07/29/1998 Ventura County St: UFW: Oxnard workers not notified of the vote