News – Gerawan

08/11/1999 San Francisco Chronic: Farm Laborers Call Van Ticking Time Bomb/Valley legislator says he’ll push for stricter seat belt law
08/11/1999 Bakersfield Californi: Accident puts focus on safety
08/10/1999 Fresno Bee Crash kills 13 farmworkers: Van hits big rig making a U-turn on a rural road in Fresno County
08/10/1999 Los Angeles Tim: 13 in Farm Van Die as It Slams Into Trailer Rig
08/10/1999 KBAK TV (CBS Affiliate: Bakersfiel: Farm Worker terror: Delano police have booked a Kern County farmer on charges of assault with a deadl weapon……for allegedly firing several shots at three farm workers
08/09/1999 Tragedies will continue until growers held accountable for farm labor systems
07/21/1999 Tallahassee Democrat Bitter fight now a party at Quincy Farms: Workers at the mushroom company celebrate their long-sought union contract.
07/21/1999 New York Tim: In an About-Face, Mushroom Farm Accepts Labor Union
07/20/1999 Florida’s largest mushroom producer signs contract with United Farm Workers
06/23/1999 San Francisco Chronic: State Slammed On Pesticide Regulation: Environmentalists’ report says farmworkers risk poisoning
06/23/1999 Associated Pre: Study: Some California farmworkers at risk from pesticide poisonings
06/11/1999 L.A. Week: UFW Can’t Sell the Union Label: The UFW loses strawberry vote – to a group that walks and talks like a company union
06/09/1999 San Francisco Bay Guardi: Field of schemes The UFW may have been defeated by a company union — and the state labor board is looking the other way.
06/09/1999 Sacramento B: Peter H. King: The strawberry picker in the faded red shirt
06/07/1999 San Francisco Chronic: Why Strawberry Fields Have Been Barren for UFW/Many factors in union’s loss last week in Watsonville vote
06/06/1999 San Francisco Examin: UFW labors to find growth
06/02/1999 Associated Pre: Berry pickers head to the polls again
06/02/1999 San Jose Mercury Ne: Runoff necessary for Coastal Berry
06/01/1999 Veteran Labor Journalist David Bacon, June, 1999: Charges of company unionism mar vote at Coastal Berry
05/31/1999 Manuel Chavez: Older brother of late UFW leader Cesar Chavez dies after battle with pancreatic cancer
05/28/1999 San Jose Mercury Ne: UFW trails in election – Berry workers: Union remains determined despite apparent defeat.
05/27/1999 Associated Pre: Berry Pickers’ Union Votes Counted
05/24/1999 Coastal Berry pickers vote Tuesday in Oxnard,Wednesday in Monterey & Santa Cruz counties
05/24/1999 Associated Pre: Union elections scheduled for berry workers
05/22/1999 Ventura County St: UFW files second petition for election