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News Releases
- 03/13/2020 Postponing the UFW 2020 Constitutional Convention & Awards Dinner
- 03/12/2020 Testimony of Areli Arteaga, on behalf of the United Farm Workers of America and UFW Foundation, Idaho State Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee — March 12, 2020
- 02/14/2020 MSNBC’s “What’s Eating America” premiering Sunday to feature UFW & UFWF
- 02/10/2020 Rufino Contreras asked for ‘a more just share’ of what he produced; 41 years ago the company answered him with bullets
- 02/06/2020 UFW, UFW Foundation: battle to ban child-brain-damaging chlorpyrifos ‘is not over’
- 02/05/2020 UFW, UFW Foundation leader urges U.S. climate crisis panel to protect farm workers from extreme heat and pesticides
- 02/04/2020 Former UFW president, Monterey Co. farm worker at State of the Union as guests of Pelosi & Panetta
- 01/27/2020 Delegation of Mexican Senators to Meet with Washington Dairy Workers, Tour Region
- 01/24/2020 Nan Freeman still inspires 48 years after the 18-year old college student gave her life for farm workers in Florida
- 01/20/2020 Friday memorial in Sarasota, FL: Nan Freeman’s moral courage when she died picketing with striking Florida farm workers in 1972 still inspires
- 12/11/2019 House Approves Right to Earn Legal Status For Undocumented Farm Workers
- 11/16/2019 UFW endorses Kamala Harris, citing her ‘fight for equal treatment and protection of farm workers’ & ‘bold leadership’ on immigration
- 11/11/2019 Remembering Latino vets on Veterans Day
- 10/30/2019 Farm workers and advocates help forge compromise bill providing legal status to immigrant farm workers during months of tough talks with growers & lawmakers from both parties
- 10/25/2019 Farm worker movement marks Larry D. Itliong Day
- 10/14/2019 UFW, UFW Foundation praise Gov. Newsom for signing bill encouraging more farm worker housing for families
- 10/10/2019 UFW: CA settlement over chlorpryifos ‘a good first step’—looking ‘forward to working with Gov. Newsom to turn it into a permanent ban’
- 08/30/2019 UFW Pres. Teresa Romero courting arrest during Labor Day march for Kaiser healthcare workers
- 08/30/2019 Farm worker movement mourns Valerie Harper
- 08/15/2019 Remembering Florida farm worker leader Valentin Barajas
- 08/14/2019 Ed Lewis, who helped Cesar Chavez buy La Paz, passes away
- 08/07/2019 Groups sue Trump’s EPA for refusing to ban brain-damaging pesticide
- 08/06/2019 Nine children of UFW members each get $1,000 ¡Si Se Puede!® scholarship
- 07/26/2019 Trump’s proposed H-2A rules would harm, not help, U.S. farm workers and reduce protections for both domestic and foreign field laborers
- 07/22/2019 Santa Rosa: Farm worker’s daughter gets UFW ¡Si Se Puede!® scholarship