United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 08/28/2018 UFW’s Arturo Rodriguez stepping down, replaced by first Latina & immigrant woman president of a U.S. national union
- 08/28/2018 Ch 23 ABC: United Farm Workers president stepping down, replaced by first Latina and immigrant woman president
- 08/28/2018 LA Times: The longtime head of the UFW is stepping down. His replacement will be the first woman to lead the union
- 08/27/2018 Nexus Media: Extreme Heat Is Killing Farm Workers. The Government Doesn’t Have a Plan to Protect Them. (VIDEO)
- 08/24/2018 Son and Daughter of farm worker receive UFW ¡Si Se Puede!® scholarships
- 08/24/2018 Northwest Public Broadcasting (NPR): In MeToo Era, A Yakima Valley Dairy Worker Finds Her Voice.
- 08/24/2018 Kansas City Star: Company housed Missouri farmworkers in ‘inhumane and unhealthy’ former county jail
- 08/24/2018 New York Times: Pesticide Studies Won E.P.A.’s Trust, Until Trump’s Team Scorned ‘Secret Science’
- 08/24/2018 Mother Jones: Farmworkers Are Dying from Extreme Heat
- 08/23/2018 NPR: When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
- 08/20/2018 Seattle Times: Darigold says it’s working to improve dairy industry’s safety – Audits, other efforts aim to change an injury rate significantly worse than the state’s agricultural sector as a whole.
- 08/20/2018 High Country News: California’s farmworkers face illness and death in the fields
- 08/17/2018 Salinas Californian: Tanimura & Antle faces fines over care of farmworkers ill in suspected pesticide exposure
- 08/13/2018 Passing of Chavez sculptor & movement supporter Bea Goldstein
- 08/10/2018 KPIX CBS San Francisco Bay Area: Fed Court in S.F. Orders Pesticide Ban, Says EPA Violated Law
- 08/10/2018 Los Angeles Times: Appeals court orders Trump administration to ban pesticide harmful to children’s brains within 60 days
- 08/09/2018 Huffington Post: Huffington Post: Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids
- 08/09/2018 Los Angeles Times: Appeals court orders Trump administration to ban pesticide harmful to children’s brains within 60 days
- 08/09/2018 Kansas City Star: Company housed Missouri farmworkers in ‘inhumane and unhealthy’ former county jail
- 08/09/2018 WRAL: Court Orders EPA to Ban Chlorpyrifos, Pesticide Tied to Children’s Health Problems
- 08/09/2018 Court slams EPA failure to protect children and farmworkers from toxic pesticide
- 08/03/2018 NBC Bay Area: Beyond the Fields: Farm Workers Excel Academically Through Cesar Chavez Program
- 08/03/2018 The Californian: Panel, state regulators call pesticide chlorpyrifos ‘toxic air contaminant’
- 08/03/2018 Street Roots News: The hands that feed us
- 08/02/2018 KQED (CA): Company Won’t Pay More Than $5,000 After Pesticide Exposure Sickens 17 Farmworkers