United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 10/05/2010 Farm workers tell Meg, ‘I am Nicky,” urging billionaire not to use them and then throw them away
- 09/24/2010 Farm Worker Movement Mourns Passing of Famed photographer George Ballis, who chronicled the UFW
- 09/24/2010 Statement of Arturo S. Rodriguez President of United Farm Workers of America Before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law ‘Protecting America’s Harvest’
- 09/23/2010 United Farm Workers’ Take Our Jobs Update September 24, 2010
- 09/23/2010 Stephen Colbert, UFW’s Rodriguez ask U.S. citizens to take farm jobs, urge Congress to pass immigration reform and AgJOBS Testifying at ‘Protecting America’s Harvest’ congressional hearing
- 09/17/2010 Hundreds of farm workers rally Latino voters for Jerry Brown in San Jose and Gilroy
- 09/16/2010 UFW awards ‘Si Se Puede’ scholarships to 12 Central Coast college students, children of union members, during awards ceremony banquet
- 09/15/2010 UFW Joins Faith, Civil Rights and Immigrant Leaders to Introduce Way Forward for Immigration Reform
- 09/07/2010 Eulogy for Manuel Vasquez, by Arturo S. Rodriguez, President United Farm Workers of America, September 7, 2010—Delano, Calif.
- 08/21/2010 Remarks by Arturo S. Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers of America Memorial Service for Stephen Rivers August 21, 2010—Los Angeles
- 08/20/2010 United Farm Workers Statement on New State Heat Illness Regulations
- 07/29/2010 Salinas UFW delegation takes off to Phoenix, Arizona without ‘papers’ to challenge SB 1070 anti-immigrant law
- 07/29/2010 UFW joins LA union leaders traveling to Arizona to keep up the pressure against the SB 1070 anti-immigrant law
- 07/28/2010 UFW on overtime bill veto: Excluding farm workers from overtime was wrong then, it is wrong today
- 07/28/2010 UFW Stands by Family Seeking Justice in Heat Stroke Death of Teen Farm Worker at Farmington vineyard (Scroll down to see statement from Merlyn Calderon, UFW National Vice President)
- 07/28/2010 UFW Praises Federal Judge for Blocking Key Parts of SB 1070, Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Bill
- 07/19/2010 Farm workers, led by UFW president & Sen. Florez, hand deliver overtime bill to Gov. Schwarzenegger (With video and statement by UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez)
- 07/16/2010 UFW Laments The Death of a Farm Worker Who Died While Laboring in an Arvin Vineyard
- 07/07/2010 UFW President Joins Stephen Colbert in Calling on Jobless Citizens to Replace Immigrant Farm Workers
- 07/06/2010 Feds Sue to Stop Arizona’s ‘Misguided’ immigration law Implementing A Local Immigration Law Is The Wrong Approach
- 07/01/2010 President Obama: Deporting undocumented farm workers would be ‘intolerable’
- 06/25/2010 Opening of world-class conference center fulfills Chavez’s dream of training new generations of activists
- 06/24/2010 UFW’s national ‘Take Our Jobs’ campaign invites U.S. citizens to replace immigrant farm workers
- 06/23/2010 ‘Take Our Jobs’ Campaign Calls on Jobless Citizens to Replace Immigrants Farm Workers
- 06/08/2010 Viva Stephen Rivers!