United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 09/17/2018 Seattle Councilmembers Join Faith & Labor Leaders Standing With Darigold Farm Workers and Condemning Darigold Dairies’ Treatment of Workers
- 09/14/2018 Register Pajaronian: Premiere Raspberries ordered to honor union contract
- 09/14/2018 The Stand : Darigold Dozen fasting for all dairy workers
- 09/12/2018 Huffpost: Climate Change Isn’t Just Making It Difficult For Farmworkers. It’s Putting Their Lives In Danger.
- 09/09/2018 Politico Magazine: The Spanish-Language Voice of Resistance
- 09/07/2018 KOSU (OK): Researchers explore a pesticide link to asthma in farmworkers’ children
- 09/07/2018 ALRB orders one of state’s largest raspberry growers to honor a UFW contract; Central Coast workers win 15 percent pay hikes, health, pension, eight-hour overtime and an array of other benefits
- 09/06/2018 KERO 23NBC News (CA): Gerawan Farming ordered to back pay farmers who supported UFW
- 09/05/2018 Orlando Sentinel (CA): Trump rollback of environmental rules puts children’s health at risk
- 09/05/2018 State judge orders back pay for four worker leaders Gerawan illegally refused to recall because they backed the UFW
- 09/05/2018 Bill Esher helped give farm workers a voice with El Malcriado
- 09/05/2018 Farm worker sons & daughters receive the UFW ¡Si Se Puede!® scholarships
- 09/04/2018 Union of Concerned Scientists: Heat Waves and Climate Change: What the Science Tells Us about Extreme Heat Events (2018)
- 09/03/2018 Civil Eats: Life as a Farmworker in Yuma’s Lettuce Fields
- 09/03/2018 KPBS (CA): Meet Teresa Romero, The United Farm Workers First Woman President
- 09/02/2018 Winona Daily News (MNhttps://www.winonadailynews.com/news/local/frank-bures-what-is-chlorpyrifos-and-its-controversy/article_7003cf6c-9893-56d5-ba5c-5188eaa6b66e.html): Frank Bures: What is chlorpyrifos and its controversy?
- 09/02/2018 Gainesville Sun (FL): National group pushes to protect heat-exposed workers
- 09/02/2018 Bakersfeld.com (CA): JOSE GASPAR: New UFW president — just the third, and a woman — rolls up her sleeves
- 08/31/2018 Delano: Son of farm worker receiving the UFW ¡Si Se Puede!® scholarship
- 08/30/2018 Santa Rosa: A daughter of farm worker receiving UFW ¡Si Se Puede!® scholarship
- 08/29/2018 KQED FORUM: A Change of Leadership at United Farm Workers Union
- 08/29/2018 Livingston: Sons and Daughters of farm worker receive UFW ¡Si Se Puede!® scholarships
- 08/28/2018 NBC News: Teresa Romero, a Mexican immigrant, will be United Farm Workers’ first female president
- 08/28/2018 USA Today: The farmworker union’s president is stepping down. Its new president is an immigrant woman.
- 08/28/2018 Vida en el Valle: UFW selects Teresa Romero first Latina immigrant woman to replace Arturo Rodríguez who is stepping down as president of the union