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|News Releases
- 09/28/2001 Retired Filipino-American farm worker to receive $73,357 pension check; UFW appeals to others who may not know about benefits
- 09/18/2001 One week later… Immigrant community, workers, labor and religious leaders to gather in heart of L.A.’s immigrant community and issue call for unity
- 09/14/2001 Saturday & Sunday in Calif., Ariz., Texas & Washington state: Farm workers organize nine events in four states honoring victims of terrorist attacks and statement from the farm workers’ movement on tragic terrorist attack against the United States
- 09/14/2001 Saturday & Sunday in Calif., Ariz., Texas & Washington state: Farm workers organize nine events in four states honoring victims of terrorist attacks and statement from the farm workers’ movement on tragic terrorist attack against the United States
- 09/12/2001 Statement from the farm workers’ movement on terrorist attack against the United States
- 09/08/2001 Pictsweet workers host prayer vigil after state prosecutors charge company with firing leading union activist for supporting the UFW
- 09/01/2001 “Providence” star Mike Farrell leads Labor Day weekend march by mushroom workers against labor law-breaking Pictsweet Farms
- 08/30/2001 New UCLA Study to Show Immigrants’ Impact on U.S. Economy
- 08/29/2001 UFW celebrates Chaddock contract with workers, local labor & political leader
- 08/21/2001 Two weeks before Bush-Fox immigration talks, bipartisan poll shows majority of voters back legalization for hard-working, taxpaying immigrants
- 08/08/2001 U.S., Mexican Officials to Hear Workers’ Claims in Trade, Labor Rights Dispute under NAFTA; Sanctions Could Result Union to Launch “Fair Trade Apple” Campaign
- 08/08/2001 UFW hails governor’s signing of its farm labor contractor reform bills
- 08/05/2001 Up to 5,000 Wash. state apple workers march for better pay, push UFW bills to legalize undocumented farm laborers
- 08/03/2001 Mayor, two workers from Salem, Ore. Pictsweet plant plant to brief Ventura County, Calif. civic leaders about company injustices in the Pacific Northwest
- 08/02/2001 Kennedy & Berman introduce UFW bills to legalize 500,000 undocumented farm workers
- 07/19/2001 Strengthened’ UFW farm labor contractor bill seeks beefed up enforcement for cheating workers
- 07/13/2001 Top U.S. rabbi presents check in Oxnard, uses D.C. connections to promote Pictsweet mushroom boycott
- 07/12/2001 Latino, church, farm worker advocates blast growers for betraying compromise plan to legalize undocumented farm laborers
- 07/10/2001 Retired Texas farm worker will get $13,000 pension check from United Farm Workers fund; others may not know about union benefits
- 06/27/2001 ALRB prosecutors charge Pictsweet refused to bargain, used pay and jobs to oppose union contract for workers
- 06/05/2001 More than 100 to create “human billboard” to turn out Los Angeles’ Latino voters
- 04/23/2001 City unveils Cesar Chavez monument on eighth anniversary of his death as Legislature’s two top leaders push UFW bills to curb farm labor abuses
- 04/21/2001 Thousands walk to honor Cesar Chavez legacy on 8th anniversary of his death during 3rd Annual Cesar E. Chavez Walk
- 03/31/2001 Thousands gather to honor Cesar Chavez in San Francisco on his birthday
- 03/31/2001 UFW honors Cesar Chavez by continuing his work