United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 07/08/2020 USA TODAY: A ‘Strike for Black Lives’ will bring together workers calling for end to systemic racism
- 07/06/2020 Primex Farms workers will protest their company’s continuing failure to protect them from coronavirus
- 07/03/2020 KGET 17: United Farm Workers accuses Wasco company of calling COVID-19-positive employees back to work
- 07/02/2020 Cal Matters: Dozens of pistachio plant workers infected with COVID-19
- 07/01/2020 A surge of COVID-19 infected Primex Farms employees while some workers say they are being recalled with positive results
- 06/30/2020 KQED (California’s Report Podcast): Coronavirus Cases Spike Across The State
- 06/29/2020 The Bakersfield Californian: Employees blame Primex for family members’ infection
- 06/29/2020 Ventura County Star: Coronavirus update Monday: Outbreak at Oxnard farmworker housing infects 95 so far
- 06/29/2020 KEYT: COVID-19 outbreak hits Oxnard farmworker housing facility
- 06/29/2020 The Bakersfield Californian: Employees blame Primex for family members’ infection
- 06/29/2020 Kern Co. farm workers expose grievances as COVID-19 cases surge & Primex Farms fails to protect them
- 06/28/2020 Explica: Farmworker housing crisis makes people sleep in dining rooms
- 06/27/2020 The Bakersfield Californian: State investigates ag’s COVID-19 safeguards
- 06/25/2020 Bakersfield Now: PrimeX Farms’ workers go on strike
- 06/25/2020 Los Angeles Times: Farmworkers at Central California pistachio farm strike after dozens test positive for the coronavirus
- 06/25/2020 KGET: Primex Farms employees picketing after 31 workers test positive for COVID-19
- 06/25/2020 110,000-plus meals distributed so far for farm worker families by partnership of World Central Kitchen, UFW Foundation & UFW
- 06/24/2020 Business Insider: ‘Elections matter’: Biden receives endorsement from United Farm Workers, which represents thousands of employees in agriculture
- 06/24/2020 Politico: FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — UFW BACKS BIDEN
- 06/24/2020 UFW backs Biden: ‘elections matter’ in protecting Dreamers, achieving immigration reform, farm worker overtime pay & prevention of heat deaths in the fields
- 06/23/2020 The Fence Post: Merkley introduces bill to provide protections for farmworkers
- 06/23/2020 ‘Uniquely vulnerable’ farm workers on frontline of COVID-19 deserve protections of FARM Laborers Protection Act
- 06/22/2020 NBC News: Latino leaders demand Florida governor apologize for linking ‘Hispanic farmworkers’ to COVID-19 rise
- 06/19/2020 The New Republic: America Owes More to Its “Essential” Immigrant Workers
- 06/19/2020 The Press Democrat: Sonoma County wineries grapple with keeping workers safe as annual harvest nears