United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 11/22/2003 Chronology on the farm workers’ latest battle with Gallo of Sonoma
- 11/22/2003 Hundreds march urging Matt Gallo to stop denying health benefits for 75% of his workers or face new Gallo boycott
- 11/22/2003 UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez Statement
- 10/14/2003 UFW opposes environmental permit for Threemile Canyon Farms
- 10/03/2003 UFW and Bustamante organizing ‘no’ on recall grass roots drive among Latino voters across the state
- 09/23/2003 Agriculture – Farm Worker Compromise Summary
- 09/23/2003 Chronology of Farm Worker Legalization Agreement Between United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO and Leaders of the Agricultural Industry
- 09/23/2003 Farm Worker Movement offices to contact re: legalization
- 09/23/2003 Granting ‘freedom from fear [for] the hardest working, lowest-paid tax-paying workers in America’
- 09/15/2003 Farm workers at Washington state’s largest dairy denounce U.S. subsidies backing anti-union activities
- 09/07/2003 Bustamante joins hundreds of farm workers from across state planning all-out drive in recall election
- 08/31/2003 Saturday & Sunday at Fresno Convention Center – UFW’s Labor day weekend convention marks union’s 40th anniversary as farm workers await Gov. Davis decision on historic bill
- 08/30/2003 Bustamante accepts UFW support at site where Robert Kennedy embraced Cesar Chavez in 1968
- 08/30/2003 STATEMENT FROM ARTURO S. RODRIGUEZ, PRESIDENT , UNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO ‘No’ on Recall, ‘Yes’ on Bustamante Announcement, August 30, 2003–“Forty Acres” Delano, California
- 08/18/2003 Workers at state’s largest dairy protest unjust firing
- 08/15/2003 Thousands at weekend farm worker marches to win driver’s licenses for undocumented
- 08/15/2003 UFW and Brownsville diocese settle dispute over fired south Texas parish workers
- 08/12/2003 8/12/03-8/17/03: Thousands of farm workers joining UFW-led marches to win driver’s licenses for the undocumented on eve of key Capitol debate
- 06/23/2003 Retired farm worker to get more than $42,000 in pension check; UFW appeals to workers who may not know they qualify
- 05/24/2003 Presentation by Arturo S. Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, Raices y Alas 20033, South Bend, Indiana
- 05/14/2003 Retired farm workers to get more than $17,000 in pension checks; UFW appeals to workers who may not know they qualify
- 04/22/2003 Joint UFW-CMA bill turns growers’ $80 million tax break into tax credit for farm worker health coverage
- 03/29/2003 Thousands walk to honor Cesar Chavez on the 10th anniversary of his death
- 03/12/2003 Retired farm workers to get more than $41,000 in pension checks; UFW appeals to workers who may not know they qualify
- 03/03/2003 Dozens to create “human billboard” to turn out Los Angeles’ voters in support of Antonio Villaraigosa