News Releases Twitter facebook YouTube Emailshare link 03/18/1999 Biggest food giveaway in Tulare County as 1,500 citrus worker families receive aid through UFW & USDA 02/11/1999 First of six 18-wheel Vons trucks with food and baby supplies heads from L.A. store to stricken Valley citrus belt 02/09/1999 UFW: Stricken citrus workers awaiting relief from President Clinton’s disaster declaration 02/02/1999 State Health & Welfare Secretary Grantland Johnson, Deputy Assistant of the U.S. Department of Labor Theodore Mastroianni, other top state & U.S. officials to hear relief appeals from 400 citrus workers 01/21/1999 UFW hands out 10 tons of food to rural farm worker freeze victims underserved by relief efforts 01/19/1999 Strawberry workers victims of violence at sit-in protest over ALRB’s refusal to prosecute; UFW’s Huerta decries 16 years of agency inaction 12/21/1998 UFW’s Rodriguez to announce $283,000 for 491 Reiter berry workers from settlement of federal class action suit alledging work without pay 12/17/1998 Clergy report on Watsonville-area strawberry worker abuses, join UFW’s Dolores Huerta in launching drive among Bay Area congregations 11/20/1998 Gov.-elect Davis names UFW’s Rodriguez to ‘elite panel’ crafting policy on water and agricultural matters 11/12/1998 Chavez’s successor rallies support for West Coast berry workers cause among labor, political & religious leaders 11/10/1998 Farm labor board expected to uphold ruling invalidating strawberry vote 11/02/1998 Celebrities, Latino labor & political leaders form East L.A. ‘human billboard’ line for Davis on day before the election 10/17/1998 East L.A. students help turn out new immigrant Latino voters in breakthrough labor drive 10/10/1998 Sacramento hosts a unique Kennedy-Chavez photo exhibit; families of the two men mark 30 years since RFK’s assassination 09/21/1998 Vineyard workers hand UFW first election victory in Mendocino Co. 09/14/1998 Coastal Berry workers demand action from ALRB against ‘sham’ election 09/05/1998 UFW to announce new contracts as Labor Day weekend convention in Fresno focuses on farm worker organizing and political goals 08/26/1998 UFW suspends 26-day strike after death of David D’Arrigo 08/21/1998 World’s largest rose grower breaks ground on new $5 million, 150-job rose packing plant & signs new UFW contract 08/18/1998 Jackson to D’Arrigo: ‘time for you to sign a union contract is long overdue’ 08/18/1998 L.A. City Council to pass resolution backing D’Arrigo workers in 3rd week of strike against huge vegetable grower 08/12/1998 D’Arrigo strikers appeal for support in S.F.’s Italian & Asian communities 08/09/1998 D’Arrigo workers use Sunday march to rally support for walkouts 08/07/1998 Nearly 400 D’Arrigo workers continue walkouts; harvesting halted as more strikebreakers leave fields Friday 08/06/1998 Scabs leave D’Arrigo fields as walkouts continue in push for contract; UFW filing charges of bad faith bargaining « Previous1…5960616263…65Next »