United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 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
- 09/01/2000 UFW convention will name union’s political fund for Joe Serna Jr.
- 09/01/2000 Lt. Gov. Bustamante addresses dinner at UFW’s Labor Day weekend convention
- 08/30/2000 Ventura mushroom workers take demands for UFW contract to busy East L.A. intersection, talk about boycott
- 08/18/2000 UFW kicks off drive to register Latinos & farm workers in Salinas
- 08/18/2000 Chavez’s family and UFW successor at bill signing, hail Chavez holiday as unique
- 08/10/2000 Statement from Cesar Chavez’s widow, Helen, on passage of state Chavez holiday bill
- 08/10/2000 UFW reply to Bush’s farm worker & Latino appeal: ‘look beyond rhetoric to policies’
- 08/03/2000 UFW: Should W. be compared to Cesar Chavez with $3.35 Texas farm worker minimum wage?
- 06/06/2000 UFW & labor help kick off battle for new amnesty law as some 1,000 workers attend a ‘town hall’ meeting in Fresno
- 06/04/2000 UFW Pres. Rodriguez leads Sunday march targeting drive to win a contract at Gallo
- 06/03/2000 UFW & labor help kick off battle for new amnesty law as some 1,000 workers attend a ‘town hall’ meeting in Salinas
- 06/01/2000 UFW backs Speaker Hertzberg’s plan to move farm labor contractor issue to conference committee
- 05/31/2000 Mushroom worker kids leads hundreds marching down Oxnard streets for a better life with a UFW contract