United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 07/06/2018 LA Times: How California’s farm labor shortage made friends of old rivals
- 07/06/2018 The Royal Tour blog: The Legacy of Cesar Chavez
- 07/06/2018 LA Times: How California’s farm labor shortage made friends of old rivals
- 07/03/2018 KTIC (NE): Senate Approves Pesticide Registration Improvement Act
- 07/02/2018 Capital and Main: The Zombie Guest Worker Bill
- 07/01/2018 The Monitor: Activists fast, pray for end to separation program
- 07/01/2018 WOAI (TX): Archbishop calls for immigration reform, launches campaign
- 06/30/2018 USA Today: In 50 states, hundreds of thousands protest immigration policy, with focus on midterms
- 06/30/2018 Monterey County Weekly (CA): After lawsuits and years of negotiations, D’Arrigo and UFW sign a contract
- 06/30/2018 Bakersfield Californian: ‘Keep families together’ rally held in downtown Bakersfield
- 06/29/2018 Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA): Punitive damages sought after Watsonville farmworkers injured by pesticides
- 06/29/2018 KSBW 8 (CA): Farm worker shortage on Central Coast
- 06/28/2018 The Guardian: American 12-year-olds can’t buy cigarettes. Why can they work in tobacco fields?
- 06/28/2018 The Desert Sun: This farmworker has commuted from Mexico to the Coachella Valley to harvest grapes for three decades
- 06/28/2018 Monterey Herald: D’Arrigo Bros. sign new contract with farm workers
- 06/28/2018 Monterey Herald (CA): D’Arrigo Bros. sign new contract with farm workers
- 06/28/2018 Facing labor shortages and inaction on immigration in D.C., UFW & D’Arrigo take novel local approach with breakthrough union contract
- 06/27/2018 Los Angeles Times: In Texas, fasting, prayers and some anger over immigrant children still separated from parents
- 06/27/2018 Progressive Pulse: Why farmworkers don’t get paid for overtime (and what should be done about it)
- 06/27/2018 Ventura County Star (CA): Legislation seeks overtime pay for farmworkers
- 06/25/2018 KTVU San Francisco: California Dems introduce bill to strengthen labor protections for farm workers
- 06/25/2018 Visalia Times-Delta (CA): Lawmakers wants to give farm workers a voice, will others follow?
- 06/25/2018 KFSN-TV (CA): Push to get overtime pay for farm workers nationwide
- 06/25/2018 KTVU: California Dems introduce bill to strengthen labor protections for farm workers
- 06/25/2018 News from Rep. Grijalva: Rep. Grijalva Introduces Bill to Remedy Decades of Discrimination Against Farm Workers