United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 05/31/2018 KBAK TV (CBS) (CA): Uncle of kids whose parents died while fleeing ICE deported
- 05/31/2018 KERO 23ABC News (CA): UFW: ICE deports family member of couple killed in crash
- 05/31/2018 Desert Sun (CA): Organizer’s 20-year quest to honor Cesar Chavez finds success in Coachella street renaming
- 05/30/2018 Business Insider: Over 10,000 migrant children are now in US government custody at 100 shelters in 14 states
- 05/29/2018 Trump plans to propose rule changes that would likely undermine farm worker pay
- 05/22/2018 NBC News: Pruitt bars AP, CNN from EPA summit on contaminants, guards push reporter out of building
- 05/21/2018 Salinas Californian: UFW opens new Salinas center in Oldtown
- 05/21/2018 Farm workers remember Mayor Hall as ‘a courageous public servant’ and ‘mayor for all the people’
- 05/20/2018 UFW dedicates big, modern & professional Salinas facility serving largest U.S. concentration of unionized farm workers
- 05/18/2018 Mother Jones: If House Republicans Get Their Way, Rural Americans Are Screwed
- 05/17/2018 Vida en el Valle: Latino Spirit Awards: Faith Flórez advocates for farmworker safety from heat
- 05/17/2018 Ventura County Star (CA): 2 Santa Paula men, 1 Fontana man arrested on suspicion of defauding innocent farmworkers
- 05/17/2018 Salinas Californian: OPINION: California leads the country in pesticide spray bans, now how about chlorpyrifos?
- 05/17/2018 Desert Sun (CA): Despite a turbulent 1968, Cesar Chavez and Robert F. Kennedy shared a vision of economic justice
- 05/14/2018 Remembering Maria Isavel Vasquez Jimenez on the 10 year anniversary of her passing
- 05/12/2018 Father Ken laid to rest in his native Nicollet, Minnesota
- 05/11/2018 Yakima Herald (WA): Court rules piece-rate pickers must be paid for down time
- 05/10/2018 Associated Press: Court: Piece-Rate Pickers Must Be Paid for ‘Down Time’
- 05/10/2018 UFW: WA high court ruling requiring pay for seasonal farm workers’ down time could mean millions over time
- 05/10/2018 Farm worker movement mourns beloved former UFW chaplain Rev. Ken Irrgang
- 05/08/2018 Los Angeles Times Editorial Board: What kind of country would tear apart and lock up families fleeing violence in their homelands? Ours
- 05/05/2018 The Hill: California asks judge to toss out Trump admin suit over sanctuary laws
- 05/01/2018 Dollars and Sense: How Filipino Migrants Gave the Grape Strike Its Radical Politics
- 04/24/2018 Syracuse.com (NY): ICE raid on Rome farm: Worker to remain in detention, judge rules
- 04/24/2018 New York Times: E.P.A. Announces a New Rule. One Likely Effect: Less Science in Policymaking.