United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 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
- 03/22/2001 Thousands of farm workers among Mexicans & Mexican Americans greeting Mexican President Vicente Fox at Fresno gathering co-hosted by UFW
- 03/16/2001 VENTURA MUSHROOM WORKERS CONFRONT GROWER OVER NOT COMMUNICATING HEALTH RISKS FROM FIRE AT PLAN
- 03/08/2001 UFW signs historic contract at nation’s largest strawberry employer, Coastal Berry Co. UFW’s first major stake in California strawberry industry
- 02/24/2001 Southern Calif. Residents Join Together to bring Food and Funds to Aid Stricken Pictsweet Mushroom Workers
- 02/22/2001 UFW to endorse Antonio Villaraigosa for Mayor
- 02/08/2001 United Farmworker Union Announces Support for Immigration Reform Legislation
- 01/26/2001 Retired farm worker to get $43,000 pension check from UFW Secty.-Treas. Tanis Ybarra; others may not know about union benefits
- 12/22/2000 Dolores Huerta released from UCLA to spend holidays with her family
- 12/11/2000 Dolores Huerta’s condition improves to fair
- 12/08/2000 Dolores Huerta’s condition once again critical after the UFW co-founder is transferred to UCLA
- 12/05/2000 California mushroom workers lead ‘human billboard’ to kick off boycott in Oregon
- 11/21/2000 Thanksgiving message: UFW gives thanks for recent gains as it calls off table grape boycott
- 11/06/2000 Honor Dolores Huerta by getting out the vote for Gore and other Democratic candidates, Huerta family asks