UFW calls
|News Releases
- 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
- 02/12/2003 UFW helps 37 artichoke workers win more than $181,000 for unpaid work
- 01/22/2003 Bush war in Iraq would bring ‘lasting harm’ to democracy at home, UFW says
- 12/30/2002 UFW endorses Arambula for Assembly
- 12/09/2002 UFW backs IID water transfer if it includes $70 million in aid for ‘left-out’ Imperial farm worker communities
- 11/15/2002 Retired Vegetable worker to get pension check for more than $10,000; UFW appeals to workers who may not know they qualify
- 11/14/2002 Final farm worker push for Latino voter turnout Monday
- 11/14/2002 Retired lettuce worker to get pension check for more than $48,000; UFW appeals to workers who may not know they qualify
- 11/04/2002 Final farm worker push for Latino voter turnout Monday in Coachella and Calexico
- 10/31/2002 First Lady Sharon Davis at Fresno farm worker-built housing project & radio station with UFW’s Arturo Rodriguez
- 10/20/2002 Background about Gov. Gray Davis’ record on farm workers
- 10/20/2002 Three farm worker rallies Sunday feature Gov. Davis and Lt. Gov. Bustamante; thanks offered for historic farm labor bills (news release & Arturo Rodriguez’ statement)
- 10/01/2002 Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on Gov. Gray Davis’ Signing Historic Farm Workers Rights Legislation