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|News Releases
- 07/10/1998 18 Dole farm workers illegally fired in 1994 to get checks for $162,000
- 07/08/1998 Clergy delegation from St. Louis challenges Driscoll after Calif. strawberry giant paid for trip to view condition in California berry fields
- 07/07/1998 UFW to announce $500,000 going to 1,000 berry workers, many from Coastal Berry Co., for settlement of federal class action suit
- 07/07/1998 Coastal Berry workers call for ‘peace in the fields’ with march & vigil at Watsonville cooler
- 07/02/1998 Coastal Berry workers stage vigils at cooler in Watsonville demanding peace in the fields
- 07/02/1998 Celebrities, UFW co-founder and berry worker supporters will visit up-scale Valley Restaurants during march down Ventura Blvd.
- 07/01/1998 UFW President Rodriguez calls on owner of Coastal Berry to halt anti-union violence
- 06/24/1998 On National Right-to-Organize Day Major L.A. buyer for strawberry giant backs organizing rights for pickers, pledges to contact Driscoll
- 06/17/1998 UFW responds to WGA’s ‘absurd’ lawsuit
- 06/16/1998 Salinas second central coast city to back UFW’s strawberry worker’s orgainizing campaign
- 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 Honoring Dr. King on 30th anniversary of his death with ’98 activism for strawberry workers; brief service, billboarding at Busch Stadium
- 04/03/1998 Leaders of U.S. Catholic Bishops urge justice for strawberry workers
- 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 UFW replies to false claims Driscoll strawberry workers are ‘free from discrimination’ & abuse’
- 03/28/1998 Thousands march to mark Cesar Chavez’s birthday, boost union strawberry drive as Calif. harvest begins
- 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