UFW calls for boycott of Windmill Mushrooms
News and Events
- 09/16/1998 San Jose Mercury Ne: U.S. puts growers on notice: Labor contractors don’t meet pay, safety rules
- 09/15/1998 Press Democr: Workers awaiting UFW election
- 09/15/1998 Santa Cruz County Sentin: UFW demands a quicker pace in Coastal Berry election probe
- 09/14/1998 Coastal Berry workers demand action from ALRB against ‘sham’ election
- 09/12/1998 The Daily Journ: Philo winery hit with strike – UFW called in, union may result (Winemaker: “I don’t recall ever having problems with the unions.” The occasional “agitators” have previously simply been fired.)
- 09/12/1998 Press Democr: Roederer employees walk off job
- 09/06/1998 Fresno B: UFW follows ‘Cesar’s Dream’
- 09/06/1998 Associated Pre: United Farm Workers to sign contract with large vegetable grower
- 09/05/1998 Press Democr: Contract gives UFW toehold in county
- 09/05/1998 UFW to announce new contracts as Labor Day weekend convention in Fresno focuses on farm worker organizing and political goals
- 08/27/1998 San Jose Mercury Ne: UFW to halt strike because of grower’s death Sympathy: Work to resume on Friday.
- 08/26/1998 UFW suspends 26-day strike after death of David D’Arrigo
- 08/26/1998 Pacific News Servi: Twenty two years is too long to wait
- 08/26/1998 San Francisco Bay Guardi: Striking back
- 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