United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 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
- 08/05/1998 Biggest walkouts in years hit Salinas vegetable industry; D’Arrigo workers demanding UFW contract halt harvest
- 07/31/1998 Over 300 D’Arrigo vegetable workers walk off the job protesting bad faith bargaining
- 07/31/1998 “Union” Election at Coastal Berry in Doubt as ALRB Gets Evidence That At Least 162 Workers Never Had Opportunity to Vote
- 07/28/1998 Workers at Largest North Coast Vegetable Farm Vote Overwhelmingly for UFW
- 07/28/1998 Joint labor committee in legislature to start hearings on ALRB behavior in Coastal Berry vote