United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 01/01/1998 Ms. Magazine, January/February: For a life of labor championing the rights of farm workers: Dolores Huerta, Woman of the year Women farm workers stand up to bias
- 12/23/1997 Three new UFW contracts include big Central Valley nursery plus first table grape grower since ’95
- 12/18/1997 Associated Press Child Labor Series : States do little to protect kids
- 12/17/1997 Associated Press Child Labor Series : No help for injured child laborers
- 12/16/1997 Associated Press Child Labor Series : Chemicals jeopardize child laborers
- 12/15/1997 Associated Press Child Labor Series : Child labor’s speak to AP
- 12/14/1997 Associated Press Child Labor Series : America’s secret child labor
- 12/12/1997 UFW sues Pajaro district for refusing to release public records on grower’s water use
- 12/09/1997 Associated Press Child Labor Series 1: From Fields and factories, Children’s voices emerge
- 12/01/1997 George Magazine, December 1997: Picking a fight
- 11/25/1997 NYC: Human billboards’ on bridges alert Thanksgiving commuters to abuses at huge Driscoll strawberry firm
- 11/17/1997 U.S. News & World Repo: Strawberry Fields and the Legacy of Cesar Chavez
- 11/05/1997 UFW: ALRB chair Stoker should quit, hearings just ‘platform to advance his political aims’
- 10/18/1997 Sacramento B: UFW attacks Lungren’s ‘guest worker’ plan
- 10/17/1997 Based on myth, Lungren guest worker idea would ‘cripple’ Latino farm workers
- 10/13/1997 UFW Co-Founder will join with 100’s of Gallo vineyard workers in announcing formal union charges against the huge Sonoma winery
- 10/12/1997 Cesar Chavez Plaza dedication draws UFW founder’s family and successor
- 10/01/1997 Arturo S. Rodriguez: Op-Ed, UFW Strawberry Campaign
- 09/16/1997 San Jose Mercu: UFW gets pledge from Safeway
- 09/16/1997 San Francisco Chronic: Safeway signs pact with UFW in support of strawberry workers…
- 09/15/1997 With historic Safeway & UFW accord, the nation’s 2nd largest food retailer to back organizing rights for strawberry workers
- 09/13/1997 ‘Veggi Libel’ bill stopped in Assembly/Prior ‘Veggi Libel’ release
- 09/10/1997 Stoker should stop using ALRB Chairman post to raise grower money for congressional race
- 09/01/1997 San Francisco Chronic: Editorial: The UFW’s Resurgance
- 08/28/1997 Salinas Californi: Los Angeles workers rally for wages, benefits