News – Gerawan

07/10/1998 18 Dole farm workers illegally fired in 1994 to get checks for $162,000
07/09/1998 Los Angeles Tim: Farmer Faces Suit in Death of Worker
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 Coastal Berry workers call for ‘peace in the fields’ with march & vigil at Watsonville cooler
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
07/02/1998 Celebrities, UFW co-founder and berry worker supporters will visit up-scale Valley Restaurants during march down Ventura Blvd.
07/02/1998 Coastal Berry workers stage vigils at cooler in Watsonville demanding peace in the fields
07/02/1998 San Jose Mercu: Berry Workers Skirmish
07/01/1998 UFW President Rodriguez calls on owner of Coastal Berry to halt anti-union violence
07/01/1998 Atlantic Monthly, 7/98: 77 N. Washington St.-Editorial
06/27/1998 San Jose Mercury Ne: Letter to the Editor
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.
05/31/1998 New York Tim: As U.S. economy booms housing for migrant workers worsens
05/30/1998 UFW warns grower-controlled group that spreading further false information about strawberries will be proof of malice in a libel action
05/17/1998 San Francisco Examin: The strawberry standoff
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
04/03/1998 Associated Pre: Strawberry worker march in New York
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