United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 09/15/2017 Time to hit ‘pause button’ on brain-harming pesticide, farmworker communities say
- 09/15/2017 Statement by UFW Spokesman Marc Grossman with farm worker community allies urging suspension of chlorpyrifos at Cal EPA Hdq.
- 09/15/2017 UFW members’ children awarded ¡Si Se Puede!®scholarships funded by union members
- 09/15/2017 State opens up review of brain-harming pesticide the feds failed to ban
- 09/14/2017 Thursday at 6 p.m. in Salinas: Eight UFW members’ children awarded $500 to $1,000 ¡Si Se Puede!® scholarships
- 09/05/2017 100’s of farm workers at San Francisco hearing: Giant grower challenging law giving farm workers the union contracts they voted for already owes its workers $10 million under a state-imposed union contract
- 09/05/2017 UFW: Trump rescinding DACA is ’heartless and immoral’
- 09/05/2017 Today in Bakersfield, Salinas & Fresno: Local DACA recipients, community members respond to Trump’s ’heartless and immoral’ action rescinding DACA
- 08/31/2017 LUPE Celebrates Court Decision to Block SB4 — SB4 is discriminatory and will lead to racial profiling
- 08/26/2017 UFW: Trump pardon of Arpaio is ‘shameful’
- 08/18/2017 Health & Farmworker Advocates Respond to California Chlorpyrifos Announcement
- 08/17/2017 UFW Remembers Juan De La Cruz
- 08/16/2017 Rep. Valadao target of statewide car caravans, local activists converging at his Bakersfield office on 5th anniversary of DACA
- 08/15/2017 UFW remembers Nagi Daifallah
- 08/10/2017 Raspberry workers vote for UFW at Watsonville ranch with over 500 employees; workers look forward to their first union contract
- 08/09/2017 Free documentary filmmaking case study on the making of Cesar’s Last Fast Aug. 19 in San Jose
- 08/08/2017 Pesticide feds failed to ban responsible for major farmworker poisoning incident
- 08/02/2017 Kern Farmworkers Sickened Again by Pesticide Drift
- 07/27/2017 Today marks the 6th Anniversary of the passing of Richard Chavez, Cesar’s younger brother who helped build the UFW from its earliest days
- 07/25/2017 UFW: Farm workers ready to fight back until Chlorpyrifos is banned
- 07/20/2017 State prosecutors once again accuse Gerawan Farming of bad-faith bargaining
- 07/19/2017 Jaime Martinez honored Cesar Chavez and also instilled pride among Hispanics in San Antonio
- 07/19/2017 Statement of Giev Kashkooli Political & Legislative Director, 2nd Vice President UFW before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security “Agricultural Guestworkers: Meeting the Growing Needs of American Agriculture” July 19, 2017
- 07/19/2017 UFW: ‘How can House GOP expand a flawed guest worker program to an industry where many U.S. workers died gruesome deaths last year because it denies basic labor protections?’
- 07/18/2017 News from Congressman Luis Gutierrez: Rep. Gutiérrez Joins UFW and House Co-Sponsors at Press Conference for Agricultural Worker Program Act, the ‘Blue Card’ Immigration Bill