United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 03/22/2019 UFW President Teresa Romero & farm workers march in Oxnard for Cesar Chavez & ‘Blue Card’ bill offering immigrants relief from fear
- 03/19/2019 UNITED FARM WORKERS TO HOLD VIGIL OUTSIDE STARBUCKS’ SHAREHOLDER MEETING
- 03/08/2019 Farmworker and pesticide protections standards preserved
- 02/21/2019 UFW ag industry transparency bill passes Senate Committee
- 02/20/2019 Farm Workers, Dairy Workers and Labor Activists to Hold Protest Outside Schultz Book Tour Event
- 02/15/2019 UFW condemns Trump’s fear mongering and abuse of constitutional authority
- 02/15/2019 United Farm Workers Championing Proposed SB 5693: Transparency in Agricultural Supply Chains Act
- 02/08/2019 Rufino Contreras still inspires movement 40 years after lettuce striker was slain; UFW, Cesar Chavez family, local officials join Contreras family
- 02/07/2019 Harris-Grijalva bill ends ‘racist exclusion’ of farm workers from overtime pay 81 years after nearly all other U.S. workers won
- 02/01/2019 National faith leaders gather at Well-Pict cooler in Watsonville asking Premiere to honor state-ordered raspberry workers’ union contract
- 01/31/2019 New Jersey minimum wage bill accepts ‘racist legacy’ of excluding farm workers; Gov. Murphy should veto measure
- 01/31/2019 United Farm Workers, Indivisible WA-8, other organizations rally outside Schultz Seattle book tour stop
- 01/30/2019 New Jersey lawmakers, governor should reject minimum wage bill because of its racist exclusion of farm workers from protections all other workers would enjoy
- 01/24/2019 Remembering Nan Freeman 47 years after the young Jewish woman gave her life for farm workers
- 01/17/2019 Feinstein-Lofgren bill grants right to apply for legal status to farm workers ‘who feed America and all of us’
- 01/14/2019 Victory: Striking citrus workers got their bin rate back, but vow to continue working on other issues
- 01/14/2019 Hundreds of striking citrus workers at Delano packing plant pressing the Wonderful Company over cutting their pay and other grievances
- 01/09/2019 UFW applies to intervene in ag lobby lawsuit against U.S. Department of Labor seeking to lower pay for farm workers
- 11/13/2018 Farm Workers Excited about Possibility of Speaker Pelosi
- 11/10/2018 Kerry Kennedy, RFK’s daughter, moved during 50-year anniversary of farm workers medical plan named for her father at East San Jose church tied to history of Chavez & Kennedy
- 11/07/2018 Mourning Don Adan, an ‘unsung hero’ who ‘gave himself totally from his heart to the UFW’
- 09/28/2018 Cesar Chavez ‘never saw anything like’ organizer Janis Peterson; services set for fearless UFW organizer & pioneering education innovator
- 09/26/2018 Premiere raspberry workers protesting at Well-Pict cooler in Watsonville, demanding grower honors state-ordered contract
- 09/20/2018 UNITED FARM WORKERS BEGIN 5 DAY FAST FOR RECONCILIATION AT DARIGOLD HEADQUARTERS IN SEATTLE
- 09/18/2018 As Climate Heats Up, Public Calls for Worker Protections From Heat