Senate vote imminent: Act to save highest-paying domestic farm jobs
News Releases
- 06/01/1998 Davis joins hundreds of farm workers ‘human billboarding’ in East L.A.
- 05/30/1998 UFW warns grower-controlled group that spreading further false information about strawberries will be proof of malice in a libel action
- 05/15/1998 UFW President roughed up, arrested by upstate NY cops while protesting mistreatment of strwberry workers
- 04/21/1998 Mayor Brown hosts signing of first strawberry contract for UFW; state’s largest organic berry grower joins Rodriguez the day before Earth Day
- 04/03/1998 Leaders of U.S. Catholic Bishops urge justice for strawberry workers
- 04/03/1998 Honoring Dr. King on 30th anniversary of his death with ’98 activism for strawberry workers; brief service, billboarding at Busch Stadium
- 03/31/1998 Statement from Arturo S. Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers of America, Celebrating Cesar Chavez’s Birthday 3/31/98-La Paz, Keene, Calif.
- 03/28/1998 Thousands march to mark Cesar Chavez’s birthday, boost union strawberry drive as Calif. harvest begins
- 03/28/1998 UFW replies to false claims Driscoll strawberry workers are ‘free from discrimination’ & abuse’
- 03/19/1998 30 years after first concert for Chavez, Peter Paul & Mary to perform UFW benefit, visit strawberry workers in camps & fields
- 03/09/1998 US strawberry workers seek help in meetings with Japanese buyers of American fruit plus consumer, environmental and labor groups
- 03/05/1998 UFW President Rodriguez will unveil a ‘Stop the Salt, Save our Jobs’ water initiative for the fall ’98 ballot
- 03/04/1998 UFW to hand out tens of thousands in relief and $9,000 cash to valley farm worker flood victims from Phoenix radio station listeners
- 02/27/1998 Chavez’s brother brings Ca berry pickers appeal to a top buyer of Driscoll strawberries
- 02/25/1998 Two UFW-backed bills seek greater voice for farm workers and the public in water policy making
- 02/01/1998 ’98 strawberry orgainizing drive builds on last year’s victories
- 01/26/1998 Santa Cruz judge hands UFW two victories against growers and industry ‘front groups’
- 12/23/1997 Three new UFW contracts include big Central Valley nursery plus first table grape grower since ’95
- 12/12/1997 UFW sues Pajaro district for refusing to release public records on grower’s water use
- 11/25/1997 NYC: Human billboards’ on bridges alert Thanksgiving commuters to abuses at huge Driscoll strawberry firm
- 11/05/1997 UFW: ALRB chair Stoker should quit, hearings just ‘platform to advance his political aims’
- 10/17/1997 Based on myth, Lungren guest worker idea would ‘cripple’ Latino farm workers
- 10/13/1997 UFW Co-Founder will join with 100’s of Gallo vineyard workers in announcing formal union charges against the huge Sonoma winery
- 10/12/1997 Cesar Chavez Plaza dedication draws UFW founder’s family and successor
- 10/01/1997 Arturo S. Rodriguez: Op-Ed, UFW Strawberry Campaign