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|News Releases
- 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
- 11/06/2000 UFW ‘human billboard’ line spurs Latino get-out-the-vote in Glendale for Gore, other Democratic candidates
- 11/06/2000 50-car farm worker caravan to election eve Latino get-out-the-vote rally in Bakersfield
- 11/05/2000 Latino recording stars join UFW get- out-the-vote rally for Gore & Salinas
- 10/31/2000 UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta condition remains critical after surgery in Bakersfield hospital (w/updates)
- 10/10/2000 Passing of Linda Chavez Rodriguez–daughter of Cesar Chavez, wife of current UFW president
- 10/05/2000 More than 100 Central Valley and Central Coast farm and other low-wage workers push for minimum wage hike
- 10/03/2000 Three generations in a Latino family register to vote as UFW marks one week before deadline for Nov. 7 election
- 09/21/2000 Poisoning victims respond as biggest pesticide misuse settlement in state history is made public
- 09/21/2000 Cardinal Mahony blesses new Lady of Guadalupe rose produced by UFW members
- 09/03/2000 Farm workers end longest-ever harvest-time strike
- 09/03/2000 UFW chooses new No. 2 officer; four others added to union’s expanded executive board
- 09/01/2000 Gov. Davis headlines UFW convention as Labor Day weekend gathering focuses on amnesty, fall election & organizing