United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 11/19/2015 Activists support President Obama’s executive action protecting some immigrants from deportation, back continuing push for implementation
- 11/11/2015 11/11/15: Message from UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez: Remembering Latino vets on Veterans Day
- 11/10/2015 Statewide UFW drive to get farm workers millions in back pay for unpaid rest periods and unpaid ‘nonproductive time’
- 11/10/2015 In 2-1 Decision, Fifth Circuit Upholds Preliminary Injunction in Texas v. U.S.
- 11/04/2015 Over Half a Million People Sign Petition to NBC Studios, Telling Lorne Michaels, SNL, and NBC That Donald Trump’s Racism Is Not Funny
- 10/20/2015 UFW Foundation and Kern Coalition for Citizenship Leaders Join in National Actions to Demand the 5th Circuit Court to Rule on Administrative Relief
- 10/20/2015 U.S. EPA Administrator and UFW President will tour Stockton, Calif. farm, discuss enhanced Worker Protection Standard with farm workers
- 09/28/2015 Remarks by Arturo S. Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers of America, Telephone news conference announcing new EPA pesticide rules for farm workers
- 09/28/2015 Farm workers win long-fought battle for pesticide worker protections under new EPA rules
- 09/23/2015 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joins grape strike veterans 50 years after his father; workers from big union ranches thank ’65 strikers for the gains of today
- 09/23/2015 UFW President Arturo Rodriguez & Cesar Chavez’s son, Paul Chavez, at White House arrival for Pope
- 09/18/2015 Excerpts from Independent state judge’s ruling: Growers gave Silvia Lopez $20,000 for decert; Lopez’s ‘virtual sabbatical’ to get rid of the UFW; Gerawan let Lopez block roads to sign petitions
- 09/17/2015 Grape strikers & boycotters mark 50 years since Delano walkouts as farm workers live their legacy today by organizing and negotiating with UFW
- 09/05/2015 UFW’s Arturo Rodriguez joins President Obama for Labor Day rally in Boston
- 08/19/2015 ‘UFW looks forward to a fairer hearing before the state high court’
- 08/05/2015 Grower offers to return fired fig workers to work after UFW files charges
- 07/28/2015 Signing new UFW contract that creates highest paid tomato workers in U.S.
- 07/16/2015 Washington state high court affirms farm workers’ right to get paid rest breaks.
- 07/15/2015 UFW and the UFW Foundation organizers conducting ‘heat sweeps’ during summer harvests
- 07/08/2015 Delegation of Farm Workers to Travel to New Orleans on Thursday to join #FamiliesFightBack against Litigation Delaying Administrative Relief
- 06/23/2015 UFW president at White House: ‘Climate change cannot be more important than changing the lives of those who feed the rest of us’
- 06/12/2015 Farm worker champion Sal Alvarez: A life grounded in faith and service
- 06/11/2015 Remarks by Arturo S. Rodriguez, President UFW on Settlement of Bautista v. State of California, June 11, 2015—Fresno, California
- 06/11/2015 Better enforcement of farm-worker heat rules as UFW and Brown administration settle lawsuit
- 06/10/2015 Sacramento first jurisdiction where state, city and now county workers celebrate Cesar Chavez’s birthday