United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 01/24/2020 AgNet West: New Joint Employer Liability Guidelines Effective in March
- 01/24/2020 Nan Freeman still inspires 48 years after the 18-year old college student gave her life for farm workers in Florida
- 01/22/2020 The Californian: Staying close: Salinas farmworkers make a home amid California’s housing crisis
- 01/20/2020 WeAreLatinLive.com: Read The Messages Martin Luther King Jr. Sent Cesar Chavez
- 01/20/2020 Friday memorial in Sarasota, FL: Nan Freeman’s moral courage when she died picketing with striking Florida farm workers in 1972 still inspires
- 01/13/2020 Monterey County Now: A berry company faces fines for a 2017 pesticide release that sickened dozens of workers.
- 01/13/2020 SFGATE: Berry Grower To Pay Penalties For Workers’ Exposure To Pesticides
- 12/31/2019 Lake County Record-Bee: NewsAgriculture California’s farmworker housing crisis has people sleeping in dining rooms
- 12/28/2019 Utica Observer Dispatch: New laws for New York in new year
- 12/21/2019 KION 5/46: Hundreds of strawberry farmworkers get $1000 after settlement
- 12/15/2019 Newsweek: House Praised For Passing Bill Giving Undocumented Farm Workers Pathway To Citizenship: ‘Bipartisanship Lives’
- 12/15/2019 KSBW The Central Coast: House votes to provide pathway to citizenship for thousands of undocumented farmworkers
- 12/15/2019 San José Spotlight: Zoe Lofgren’s bill to provide green cards to undocumented farmworkers passes House
- 12/12/2019 Earth Justice: Children’s Health and Environmental Advocates Call on Governor Cuomo to Sign Legislation Banning Chlorpyrifos
- 12/12/2019 Yakima Herald: Bipartisan farmworker bill prevails in House
- 12/12/2019 Politico: The House easily passed a broad overhaul of agricultural labor laws
- 12/12/2019 The Hill: House passes bill that would give legal status to thousands of undocumented farmworkers
- 12/12/2019 CNN: House votes to provide a pathway to citizenship for thousands of undocumented farmworkers
- 12/12/2019 KGET Bakersfield: House approves bill that gives farmworkers right to earn legal status
- 12/12/2019 KQED’s The California Report: Federal Bill Would Legalize Many Undocumented Farmworkers
- 12/11/2019 House Approves Right to Earn Legal Status For Undocumented Farm Workers
- 12/06/2019 High Country News: Undocumented farmworkers could get citizenship from a new bill in Congress
- 11/28/2019 Earthjustice: This Thanksgiving, Remember that Hands Grow Your Food
- 11/28/2019 FOX4KC.com: Lawmakers create bill to fix farmworker shortage, help migrants earn US legal status
- 11/23/2019 WLRN: He Helped Farmworkers Organize In Florida. He Also Wrote Poetry. Joseph Kaplan Dies At 90