United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 03/08/2024 The Guardian: Florida passes ‘cruel’ bill curbing water and shade protections for workers
- 03/06/2024 NBC News: Florida Senate passes bill blocking local rules protecting workers from heat
- 03/04/2024 Bakersfield Now: Rudy Salas rallies with voters: A march for farmworker rights and a seat at CA-22
- 02/27/2024 Politico: Florida Republicans’ war on the war on heat
- 02/24/2024 YourCentralValley.com: Farmworkers among 8 killed in Madera County crash, CHP says
- 02/23/2024 UFW Welcomes Restoration of Farm Worker Labor Rights in New York; Calls on Growers to Negotiate Union Contracts
- 02/23/2024 NBC Los Angeles: Farm workers among 8 dead in head-on crash in Madera County
- 02/22/2024 Spectrum News 1: New York farm worker unionization can resume after restraining order lifted
- 02/17/2024 The Washington Post: These farmworkers created America’s strongest workplace heat rules
- 02/14/2024 RFK Human Rights: N.Y. farm workers are being denied their rights
- 02/14/2024 Farmworkers and Allies to Rally Outside Buffalo CourthouseFor Right to Organize
- 02/13/2024 USA Herald: Farmworkers Union Takes Stand Against Bid To Halt NY Agricultural Law
- 02/13/2024 Farm workers praise SEIU’s Mary Kay Henry for her years of leadership and support
- 02/10/2024 Rufino Contreras asked for ‘a more just share’ of what he produced; 45 years ago the company answered him with bullets
- 02/09/2024 Jacobin: New York Growers Are Fighting Farmworkers’ Right to Organize
- 02/07/2024 CalMatters: Is California’s workplace safety agency protecting farmworkers? Legislators want to know
- 01/30/2024 Daily Kos: Florida GOP wants to block heat protection for workers. Good thing it’s never hot there
- 01/28/2024 The Bakersfield Californian: JOSE GASPAR: Writer continues mission to find families of nameless ‘Deportee’ plane crash victims
- 01/27/2024 AZ Central: Arizona lawmaker files bill to protect workers from heat after Yuma farmworker death
- 01/26/2024 King 5 News: Farm workers fight new overtime law in Washington
- 01/25/2024 Remembering Nan Freeman 52 years after the young Jewish woman gave her life for farm workers
- 01/21/2024 23ABC News Bakersfield: César E. Chávez National Monument honors life and legacy of Helen Chavez
- 01/16/2024 San Bernardino Sun: Coachella Valley farmworkers’ lives seen in Riverside photo exhibit
- 01/12/2024 Mourning Florida UFW leader James Strowbridge Sr.
- 01/10/2024 Blue Book Services: Pollution increases heat-related farmworker danger