United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 02/10/2015 Remarks by Arturo S. Rodriguez, President United Farm Workers of America, Los Angeles Unified School District board
- 02/10/2015 L.A. school board tells Gerawan to honor its workers’ UFW contract, vows to monitor the grower’s compliance with the law
- 02/09/2015 L.A. school board enters farm workers’ fight with huge Central Valley grower
- 01/15/2015 Judge finds Tracy asparagus grower illegally threatened, interrogated and laid off pro-union workers
- 01/14/2015 UFW opposes passage of GOP-led H.R. 240 bill
- 01/10/2015 Fresno activist Alfonso Hernandez championed farm workers, students and Latino rights
- 01/10/2015 DPR Chloropicrin Recommendations Leave CA Farm Workers, Schoolchildren, Rural Communities at Risk from Cancer-Causing Pesticide
- 01/08/2015 Passing of farm worker champion Joe Gunterman
- 12/10/2014 UFW, farm worker at Senate hearing to back President’s immigration executive order keeping families together
- 12/04/2014 UFW opposes H.R. 5759 Congressman Ted Yoho’s (R-FL) proposal to prevent the President from protecting immigrant families
- 12/02/2014 Activists, farm workers gather at Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s Bakersfield office urging support for President Obama’s executive order
- 11/25/2014 ‘UFW stands up for justice for Michael Brown’
- 11/22/2014 UFW, UFW Foundation, Radio Campesina, Cesar Chavez Foundation to present informational sessions on administrative relief
- 11/21/2014 UFW Pres. Rodriguez after landing on Air Force One: Furious opposition also met Lincoln freeing the slaves and Truman desegregating the U.S. military
- 11/20/2014 UFW commends President for taking first step – and calls on Congress to finish the job
- 11/20/2014 Watch Parties in ten West Coast cities at 4:30 p.m. PT Thursday: UFW, UFW Foundation farm workers to watch & celebrate President Obama’s speech for administrative relief
- 11/19/2014 UFW President Arturo Rodriguez Meets with President Obama on Executive Action
- 11/19/2014 UFW members, UFWF host symbolic Thanksgiving meal in support of executive action for immigration relief; Echo events held in Bakersfield, Fresno, Oxnard, Salinas, Santa Rosa and Stockton California as well as Hermiston Oregon
- 11/14/2014 Rep. Gutierrez Joins Farm Workers behind the Thanksgiving Meal to Hold Holiday Feast in front of White House Farm & Food Processing Workers Deliver Letters Calling for Executive Action
- 10/21/2014 Epic battle with huge Central Valley grower plays out before L.A. City Council Wednesday
- 10/06/2014 100 Gerawan workers protest in reaction to attempted witness tampering; Monday at 10:30 a.m. in Fresno
- 10/01/2014 Berkeley urges Gerawan to implement union contract
- 10/01/2014 UFW marks induction of legendary community organizer Fred Ross into California Hall of Fame
- 09/30/2014 Giant tree fruit grower suggests suing Berkeley over council resolution supporting Fresno County workers
- 09/29/2014 UFW: Neutral administrative judge will decide whether the Gerawans committed egregious violations of the law