United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 12/17/2020 Lawsuit: After 9 Deaths and 400 Infections at Foster Farms’ Meatpacking Plant, Restraining Order Needed to Protect Workers and Merced County
- 12/17/2020 Earthquakes raising $20,000 to supply holiday relief kits for farm worker families in Salinas
- 12/15/2020 Bakersfield protest of McCarthy one of 50 events in 27 states urging Biden to dismantle Trump’s anti-immigrant policies
- 12/12/2020 Protect immigrants from deportation, farm workers will urge at human billboard event
- 12/03/2020 Suit to halt transfer of hundreds of millions a year from farm workers to growers
- 11/23/2020 UFW & UFW Foundation applaud ‘historic’ Biden nomination of Mayorkas as first Latino head DHS
- 11/18/2020 Anna Andreini-Brophy played historic roles with Cesar Chavez, UFW since ‘60s
- 11/14/2020 UFW backs Alex Padilla for U.S. Senate appointment
- 11/07/2020 Honoring farm worker champion Tomás Olmos
- 11/06/2020 For Washington state farm workers, high court overtime decision is about much more than money; it’s about being treated as ‘equal human beings’
- 10/14/2020 Lawsuit to stop Trump from slashing U.S. farm worker pay
- 10/01/2020 Harris bill to protect all U.S. farm & other workers from heat
- 09/30/2020 Trump proposes cutting farm worker pay in the midst of a pandemic
- 09/23/2020 ‘Undocumented immigrants deserve a path to legalization & citizenship that recognizes the essential role we play in this nation,’ farm worker urges House Judiciary Committee
- 09/22/2020 Protect essential farm workers from deportation, farm worker will urge House Judiciary Committee
- 09/16/2020 UFW backs Hickenlooper, a partner for farm workers earning equal rights to overtime pay and a legal immigration process
- 09/10/2020 Courts dismiss growers’ effort to block Michigan’s public health order providing free COVID-19 testing for farm workers
- 08/31/2020 Pledging boycott of Foster Farms if giant Livingston plant continues failing to provide a safe workplace after at least 8 worker deaths
- 08/31/2020 PORT OF LOS ANGELES, CMA CGM GROUP DONATE 75,000 MASKS TO UNITED FARM WORKERS
- 08/29/2020 UFW mourns the passing of Dr. Marion Moses who turned a weekend in Delano into a lifetime of service helping Cesar Chavez, farm workers combat the perils of pesticides
- 08/18/2020 Eulogy by Teresa Romero, Dolores Velasco Services
- 08/17/2020 Michigan’s public health order requiring free testing for ag workers ‘imperative’ for their health; industry lawsuit is ‘cynical ploy’
- 08/14/2020 189,000 meals distributed in rural California through partnership between UFW Foundation, World Central Kitchen, UFW & CCF
- 08/11/2020 UFW applauds Biden choice of Harris, citing her ‘fight for equal treatment & protection of farm workers’ and their joint support for overtime pay plus genuine agricultural immigration reform
- 08/07/2020 Dolores Velasco’s legacy of kindness and devotion to the husband and cause to which she dedicated her life