United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 04/02/2022 Remarks by Teresa Romero, President, United Farm Workers of America, Dedication of the Nan Freeman Memorial, New College of Florida, April 2, 2022—Sarasota, Florida
- 03/31/2022 Retracing historic 1966 pilgrimage: Farm workers announce march from Delano to Sacramento after Gov. Newsom won’t meet with them on Cesar Chavez Day
- 03/29/2022 Farm workers gather in 13 California cities asking why Gov. Newsom won’t meet with them on Cesar Chavez Day
- 03/28/2022 First Lady Dr. Jill Biden honors Cesar Chavez at a naturalization ceremony where Chavez lived & labored his last quarter century
- 02/12/2022 Farm Workers Hold “A Day Without Immigrants” Rallies
- 02/10/2022 UFW President Emeritus, UFW Foundation Systemic Change Director Appointed to USDA Equity Commission
- 02/10/2022 Rufino Contreras asked for ‘a more just share’ of what he produced; 43 years ago the company answered him with bullets
- 02/03/2022 Farm worker rights coalition urges Biden Administration to fully investigate & reform the H-2A program following Georgia ‘modern-day slavery’ human trafficking cases
- 01/25/2022 Remembering Nan Freeman 50 years after the young Jewish woman gave her life for farm workers
- 01/04/2022 Mourning original UFW member Antonia “Tonia” Saludado Reading
- 12/16/2021 Farm Workers on Parliamentarian’s Opinion on Immigration: “We Are Not Done Yet. The Senate Must Pass Immigration Reform”
- 12/15/2021 Honoring longtime farm worker champion Pat Henning
- 11/19/2021 House Passes Build Back Better Act, Approves Immigration Protections for Millions Including Farm Workers
- 11/03/2021 UFW & UFW Foundation: Back new House Democrats’ ‘real, tangible relief for millions of the undocumented’
- 10/28/2021 United Farm Workers & UFW Foundation on Build Back Better Framework
- 10/25/2021 Farm worker movement marks Larry D. Itliong Day
- 09/29/2021 UFW & UFW Foundation on second Senate Parliamentarian ruling: “We are not strangers to ‘No’ on our path to ‘Sí, Se Puede”
- 09/23/2021 Farm workers march from French Laundry to Newsom’s Napa winery seeking meeting with governor and to protest governor’s double standard on voting choice
- 09/22/2021 UFW responds to Newsom veto of farm worker voting choice bill by heading to French Laundry to seek a meeting with him
- 09/22/2021 First steps in UFW’s 260-mile ‘March for the Governor’s Signature’ for AB 616, making farm labor election voting easier
- 09/20/2021 Federal heat standards a ‘positive first step’ but require urgent action
- 09/19/2021 UFW & UFW Foundation on first round of Senate Parliamentarian rulings on legalization: ‘We are serious about not going home empty-handed this year’
- 09/14/2021 House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC), U.S. Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Val Demings (D-FL) join ABIC and Immigration Reform Leaders to Hold Virtual Press Event Following Historic Committee Action on Immigration Reform
- 09/07/2021 Senators Padilla & Booker accept farm workers’ ‘Take Our Jobs’ invitations
- 09/02/2021 Cal Matters: Farmworkers deserve the right to vote by mail in union elections