United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 04/26/2014 Farm workers to Wal-Mart: Tell Gerawan-owned Prima brand to ‘obey the law’
- 04/24/2014 With Produce in Hand, more than a 1,000 Farm Workers Deliver Strong Message to Kevin McCarthy on Immigration: “I Harvest for 10 Hours a Day. Can You Take 10 Minutes to Schedule a Vote?”
- 04/23/2014 Ahead of Mass Farm Worker Produce Delivery, Activists Remind McCarthy “We’re Not Giving Up on Immigration”
- 04/18/2014 With Produce in Hand, Hundreds of Farm Workers Deliver Strong Message to Kevin McCarthy on Immigration: “I Harvest for 10 Hours a Day. Can You Take 10 Minutes to Schedule a Vote?”
- 04/09/2014 Immigrant and farm worker rights advocates call on Sheriff Donny Youngblood to honor state law protecting noncriminal undocumented immigrants
- 03/28/2014 Bakersfield to host fundraising screening of new Cesar Chavez film
- 03/28/2014 Presidential Proclamation — Cesar Chavez Day, 2014
- 03/25/2014 Cesar Chavez film screens for 1,000-plus farm workers at historic site where it all began during novel outdoor screening
- 03/24/2014 Sacramento to host fundraising screening of new Cesar Chavez film
- 03/24/2014 Salinas to host fundraising screening of new Cesar Chavez film
- 03/24/2014 Bakersfield to host fundraising screening of new Cesar Chavez film
- 03/22/2014 San Diego to host fundraising screening of new Cesar Chavez film
- 03/19/2014 Immigration Reform Supporters including UFW, UFW Foundation Crash Rep. Goodlatte’s Party in Los Altos Hills
- 03/19/2014 Chavez family, UFW hope Wednesday White House screening of Cesar Chavez helps inspire the nation
- 03/18/2014 House Republicans All Too Happy to Take Anti-Immigrant Votes but Refuse to Fix Broken Immigration System
- 03/14/2014 United Farm Workers and UFW Foundation to host fundraising screenings of new Cesar Chavez film
- 03/13/2014 Pesticide-contaminated communities call for ban
- 02/26/2014 National “Fast for Families” bus tour arrives in Bakersfield to urge Congress to keep families together and pass immigration reform
- 02/20/2014 UFW Reacts to Gov. Brown’s Agricultural Labor Relations Board Appointment
- 02/14/2014 UFW leader, farm worker to join President Obama during visit to California’s drought-stricken Ag lands
- 02/13/2014 Gerawan workers deliver ‘have a heart’ Valentine’s Day card asking for jobs and money they are owed
- 02/11/2014 ‘Shirley Temple Black got Cesar Chavez to deliver one of his most memorable speeches’
- 02/04/2014 Remarks by Arturo S. Rodriguez, President United Farm Workers of America, CHCI screening of “Cesar Chavez”, Washington, D.C.—February 4, 1014
- 02/04/2014 Remarks by Paul F. Chavez, President Cesar Chavez Foundation CHCI screening of ‘Cesar Chavez’ Washington, D.C.—February 4, 1014
- 02/04/2014 Gerawan says it pays the highest wages in the industry; class-action lawsuit alleges it doesn’t even pay many of its farm workers the minimum wage