United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 03/05/2007 BOXER, FEINSTEIN, SCHWARZENEGGER RENEW CALL FOR PRESIDENT BUSH TO DECLARE CITRUS FREEZE DISASTER
- 03/03/2007 NEWS FROM SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS: EDWARDS CALLS ON PRESIDENT BUSH TO DECLARE A FEDERAL EMERGENCY IN AREAS IN CALIFORNIA AFFECTED BY THE JANUARY CITRUS FREEZE
- 03/03/2007 Farm Worker Movement Radio Network Holds Radio-thon for Citrus Freeze Victims; Caravans Vanloads of Food to Saturday Porterville Food Giveaway
- 03/02/2007 Presidential Candidate John Edwards to Visit UFW, Freeze Victims this Friday in Fresno
- 02/28/2007 Remarks by Marc Grossman for the United Farm Workers of America, Before the Senate Select Committee on Food-borne Illness
- 02/24/2007 Food Donation to Aid Hundreds of Delano & Cutler Area Farm Workers Affected by Citrus Freeze
- 02/17/2007 Hundreds of farm workers and their families affected by freeze to benefit Food Donation to Aid Citrus Freeze Farm Workers
- 02/13/2007 Statement by Diana Tellefson, Executive Director, UFW Foundation, Re: Governor Schwarzenegger Appropriating $100,000 to UFW Foundation for Outreach Services
- 02/09/2007 Two Truckloads Arrive from Los Angeles for Saturday Distribution in Porterville: Food Donation to Aid Citrus Freeze Farm Workers
- 02/08/2007 Statement by Arturo Rodriguez, UFW President/UFW Foundation Board Chair at the LA Federation of Labor Press Conference
- 02/08/2007 LA Labor Movement Announces $30,000 Food Donation to Aid Displaced Farm Workers
- 02/08/2007 Hundreds of Farm Workers to Attend UFW Foundation Meetings Held in Tulare and Kern Counties on Citrus Freeze
- 02/07/2007 Statement by Arturo Rodriguez, UFW President/UFW Foundation Board Chair to Workers at Freeze Meetings
- 02/05/2007 Suit Filed to Speed Phase-out of Deadly Pesticides
- 01/17/2007 UFW fights to ensure all hard-hit California farm workers receive relief from devastating freeze
- 01/11/2007 New Congress brings new opportunities for UFW to help enact historic AgJOBS bill with local events in California
- 01/10/2007 New Congress brings new opportunities to enact historic earned legalization for farm workers
- 12/26/2006 Attorney General to Farm Worker Movement: ‘all the allegations deemed by our office to require investigation were found to be without merit’
- 12/16/2006 UFW condemns U.S. immigration raids, urges comprehensive immigration reform
- 12/06/2006 Cesar Chavez inducted into Calif. Hall of Fame; Chavez family, UFW leader joins Gov. Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver
- 11/30/2006 Election Victory at Threemile Canyon Farms
- 11/21/2006 On eve of Thanksgiving, Krug-Mondavi workers turn in more than 17,000 signatures of consumers pledging to support boycott
- 11/01/2006 Farm workers settle lawsuit for $3.5 million; UFW president and elected officials urge D’Arrigo to also resolve sex and bad-faith bargaining actions
- 10/06/2006 Settlement announced for Kern County farm worker whose death inspired Gov. Schwarzenegger to issue heat reg.
- 09/11/2006 UFW unveils Camp Justice, targeting farm workers’ poor pay and conditions