United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 09/16/2024 Sept. 20, 21 & 22 in Bakersfield: Hundreds of farm workers gather to mark organizing victories on both coasts at UFW convention
- 09/04/2024 Remembering early farm worker champion and political activist Daneen Montoya
- 09/01/2024 UFW Statement on the Ongoing War in Gaza
- 08/30/2024 Public Comment period now open for first nationwide heat safety rule
- 08/20/2024 BREAKING: New York State Labor Board rejects grower challenges to UFW elections
- 08/20/2024 PERB Ruling Affirms UFW Certifications; NY Farm Workers Closer To First Union Contracts
- 08/13/2024 Farm workers won the right to organize in 1975 because of Richard Alatorre
- 08/12/2024 Farm worker Lourdes Cardenas speaks at #HeatWeek kickoff
- 08/09/2024 Media Advisory: Senator Cortese joins UFW President Teresa Romero and farm workers fired for leaving work over heat safety
- 07/30/2024 Union activists to be recalled in NY apple orchard
- 07/21/2024 United Farm Workers Endorses Vice President Kamala Harris for President
- 07/19/2024 Injunction Halts Progress for Wonderful Nurseries Workers
- 07/09/2024 As California Temperatures Soar, UFW urges passage of the Preventing Farm Worker Climate Change Heat Injury, Illness or Death Act (SB 1299)
- 07/02/2024 United Farm Workers & UFW Foundation Welcome Proposed Rulemaking for Federal Heat Standards for Outdoor Workers
- 06/18/2024 Farm Workers Welcome President Biden’s Action To Protect American Families
- 06/10/2024 UFW mourns the passing of Rev. James Lawson
- 06/10/2024 Farm Workers to Rally at Yakima Court in Windmill Farms Lawsuit
- 06/10/2024 Aristeo Oropeza was alongside Cesar Chavez during the historic 1966 march
- 05/03/2024 United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- 05/02/2024 Farm workers who voted for UFW seek binding arbitration to win union contracts at five New York farms; state certifies UFW after workers voted at a sixth company
- 04/26/2024 United Farm Workers & UFW Foundation Welcome New Federal Rules to Reform the H-2A Program
- 03/29/2024 Bill Granting Farm Workers Legal Status Reintroduced in Senate
- 03/27/2024 Mourning Wendy Goepel Brooks, one of the UFW’s first full-time volunteers at the dawn of the 1965 Delano grape strike
- 03/27/2024 UFW Files New Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against Wonderful Nurseries
- 02/23/2024 UFW Welcomes Restoration of Farm Worker Labor Rights in New York; Calls on Growers to Negotiate Union Contracts