UFW calls for boycott of Windmill Mushrooms
News Releases
- 07/28/1998 Joint labor committee in legislature to start hearings on ALRB behavior in Coastal Berry vote
- 07/28/1998 Press Release from Senator Hilda L. Solis: Labor Committee Chair to Convene Oversight Hearing on ALRB Election Procedures Tied to Anti-Union Violence
- 07/24/1998 Strawberry Workers Strike Coastal Berry to Protest Sham Election And Company Union Tactics. Company’s San Andreas and Jensen ranches shut down as workers converge on company headquarters
- 07/23/1998 UFW: Sham Election Won’t Stop Strawberry Workers From Organizing a Union to Improve Their Lives. Workers want a real voice for better working and living conditions, not violence and pressure tactics
- 07/23/1998 Statement from Arturo S. Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO-“Rule by terrorism” in Coastal Berry Co. election
- 07/23/1998 Statement of John J. Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO, on the “union” election at Coastal Berry Co.
- 07/22/1998 State ‘surrenders to extortion’ in Coastal Berry Co. election
- 07/22/1998 Press Release from Senator Hilda L. Solis: Lawmakers investigating ALRB response to grower violence and control of election push at largest berry ranch
- 07/21/1998 Salinas: Central coast strawberry workers hold vigil at ALRB urging rejection of violence and ‘sham’ election bid by big berry grower.
- 07/21/1998 Sacramento: Central coast farmworkers camp out at ALRB urging rejection of violence and ‘sham’ election bid by big berry grower.
- 07/20/1998 Workers link violence & election bid to anti-union Coastal Berry Co. managers
- 07/20/1998 Sweeney, Rodriguez link violence & ‘sham’ election bid to anti-union Coastal Berry Co. managers; canceled checks connect berry industry giants to ‘front’ groups
- 07/15/1998 Supporters of ‘Stop the Salt, Save Our Jobs’ measure announce it has made fall ballot; water district board will also take up UFW-backed plan
- 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