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|News Releases
- 11/04/2008 UFW Congratulates President-elect Barack Obama
- 10/15/2008 UFW and Community Leaders Take a Stand Against Prop 11
- 10/01/2008 Statement of Assembly Speaker Emeritus Fabian Nunez on Veto of AB 2386, Secret Ballot for Farmworkers Bill
- 10/01/2008 UFW Statement on Veto of AB 2386
- 09/07/2008 UFW Foundation Immigration Project Opens in Salinas with a Naturalization Event
- 08/28/2008 UFW to Unveil New, Multilingual Website on Labor Day Weekend
- 08/27/2008 The WSLC, United Farm Workers Blast Effort to Pass State Guestworker Program
- 08/22/2008 Hillary Clinton, Bobby Kennedy Jr. headline UFW convention’s push for Obama; Organizing plus state labor and U.S. immigration reforms are also central themes
- 08/21/2008 Complaint Filed on Behalf of H2A Workers in Sacramento, Co.
- 08/15/2008 More than 700 Farm Workers will Lobby State Legislators
- 08/08/2008 Coachella Valley Farm Worker Latest Victim to Succumb to Probable Heat-Related Causes
- 08/07/2008 Funeral Arrangements for Jorge Herrera, 5th farm worker to die this year due to heat
- 08/01/2008 Heatstroke Claims Life of 14th Farm Worker; Jorge Herrera Had Been Hospitalized Since July 9
- 07/28/2008 EPA Under Fire For Flawed Pesticide Decisions
- 07/24/2008 Lawsuit Asks EPA to End Use of Hazardous Pesticide in USA
- 07/24/2008 Fines aren’t enough. There must be criminal prosecution in the death of 17-year old heat victim
- 07/09/2008 Heat Claims Life of Second Farm Worker in Past Month – Santa Maria man died while working in 110 degree heat
- 07/04/2008 License Reinstatement Slap in the Face to the Memory of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez
- 06/20/2008 UFW Condemns Firing of Doroteo Jimenez
- 06/17/2008 Wrongful Death Lawsuit to be Filed on Behalf of Family of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez
- 06/14/2008 United Farm Workers Endorses Sen. Obama
- 06/04/2008 Remarks by Arturo S. Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers of America, Honoring Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez, June 4, 2008—State Capitol, Sacramento
- 06/02/2008 Day 2: Peregrinacion for the Fallen Farm Worker
- 05/30/2008 Four-day Lodi to State Capitol Farm Worker Peregrinacion in Honor of Teen and Other Workers Who Have Died From Heat
- 05/28/2008 Memorial Service for 17-Year-Old Farm Worker; First Heat-Related Death This Year