United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 01/30/2008 Op-Ed by UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez on the Guest Worker Program
- 01/22/2008 United Farm Workers Endorses Clinton
- 01/18/2008 Another Farm Worker Death; Another Law Not Enforced
- 12/13/2007 Groups Sue Department of Labor over Foreign Guestworker Documents
- 12/06/2007 UFW Responds to Chertoff’s Attack on “No Match” Rule
- 11/07/2007 STATEMENT FROM UFW PRESIDENT ARTURO RODRIGUEZ ON BUSH ADMINISTRATION ATTEMPT TO CHANGE H-2A GUESTWORKER RULES
- 11/05/2007 Statement of Senator Dianne Feinstein on her decision not to offer AgJOBS as an amendment to the Farm Bill
- 10/24/2007 UFW response to today’s failure of the Dream Act bill (S. 2205) to pass the Senate
- 10/15/2007 California Governor Vetoes Fair Treatment for Farm Workers Act:
- 10/01/2007 Letter from 54 scientists, including six Nobel Prize winners, to EPA objecting to possible use of methyl iodidea toxic chemical for agricultural use.
- 09/27/2007 Court rules in favor of farm workers class action, RDO-Bos Farms violated federal and state wage and hour laws
- 09/27/2007 UFW Response to DREAM Act being temporarily pulled
- 09/07/2007 Just ONE DAY after 800 UFW workers traveled to Sacramento to push SB 180: RETALIATION AGAINST FARM WORKERS AFTER GOVERNOR’S WELCOME
- 09/05/2007 Hundreds of Farm Workers Statewide Travel to Sacramento Capital on Sept. 5th – UFW Plans Lobby Day to Ask Governor: Remember Farm Workers, SIGN SB 180
- 08/28/2007 UFW RELEASES FIRST BOOK IN MORE THAN TWO DECADES, TOUR TO KICK OFF IN LOS ANGELES
- 08/16/2007 Wasco’s former Jackson & Perkins offers largest severance agreement in AG history; UFW CONTRACT RESULTS IN $1.6 MILLION SEVERANCE PACKAGE FOR FARM WORKERS AFTER COMPANY SELLS
- 08/10/2007 UFW, GROWERS AGREE: WE NEED REAL REFORM, NOT BAND-AIDS. PASS AGJOBS TO SECURE AMERICA’S FOOD SUPPLY
- 08/03/2007 UFW CALLS FOR AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY TO STOP VIOLATING FARM WORKERS’ RIGHTS
- 07/31/2007 Lawsuit Challenges EPA on Deadly Pesticide
- 07/25/2007 UFW Foundation Works to Raise Awareness Among Farm Workers of Heat Regulations: UFW to Distribute Water Bottles, Knowledge to Farm Workers Laboring in the Sun
- 07/24/2007 Workers Fight Out Against Potential Age Discrimination TODAY: WORKERS TO RALLY AGAINST BOLTHOUSE FIRINGS
- 07/19/2007 SENATOR DEAN FLOREZ INVITES FARM WORKERS TO TESTIFY AT LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON HEAT
- 07/17/2007 More than 40 Dedicated Workers Fired From Bolthouse Farms;UFW Fights to Determine Why
- 07/16/2007 Joint Statement from UFW and Three Mile Canyon Farms: THREEMILE CANYON FARMS AND UFW SIGN COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
- 07/16/2007 Historic United Farm Worker Union Contract Signed by Boardman Dairy Workers, First in the State of Oregon