Act Now: Tell your US Rep farm workers deserve overtime
News Coverage
- 06/07/2016 New York Times: Helen Chavez, Farm Activist’s Widow and Union Partner, Dies at 88
- 06/07/2016 Sacramento Bee (CA): Services set for Helen F. Chavez, widow of California labor leader
- 06/07/2016 Sacramento Bee (CA): California Assembly blows chance to right historical wrong
- 06/06/2016 People’s Vanguard of Davis (CA): State Assembly Votes To Uphold Institutional Racism in the Labor Code
- 06/06/2016 Fresno Bee: Helen Chavez, widow of UFW co-founder Cesar Chavez, dead at 88
- 06/06/2016 Helen Chavez, Wife of Late Civil Rights Activist Cesar Chavez, Dies at 88
- 06/03/2016 Vida en el Valle (CA): Farmworker union expanding its influence
- 06/03/2016 SFGate (CA): Monsignor Eugene Boyle, maverick priest of ’60 and ’70s, dies
- 06/03/2016 Los Angeles Times: Assembly kills bill to give California farmworkers overtime pay
- 06/02/2016 Environmental Working Group: n an Election Year, Food and Farm Policy Should be Part of the Debate
- 06/02/2016 Sacramento Bee: Three Bible quotes later, no extra overtime pay for farmworkers
- 06/01/2016 The Monitor (TX): Melon strike 50 years ago in Starr County sparked Chicano movement in Texas
- 06/01/2016 KGBT-TV (TX): Melon strike of 1966 commemorated in Rio Grande City
- 06/01/2016 Houston Chronicle: Fifty year anniversary of melon strike commemorated
- 05/31/2016 San Jose Mercury News (CA): Funeral Mass for Monsignor Eugene Boyle
- 05/31/2016 International Business Times: Immigration Reform: To Get Driver’s Licenses For Undocumented
- 05/31/2016 BuzzFeed News: Cesar Chavez’s Son: Not True That My Father Would Have Supported Sanders
- 05/24/2016 Fresno Bee (CA): Class-action suit alleges Gerawan failed to pay workers properly
- 05/23/2016 Vida en el Valle (CA): Clinton, Brown, Harris visit UFW convention
- 05/23/2016 Fresno Bee (CA): Bill Clinton to farmworkers: Let’s build bridges, not walls
- 05/23/2016 ABC 10: Farm workers concerned about overtime bill
- 05/23/2016 Washington Post: Farmworker health deserves attention
- 05/22/2016 Bakersfield Californian: JOSE GASPAR: United Farm Workers going global
- 05/22/2016 KBAK TV (CBS) (CA): Gov. Jerry Brown speaks at UFW convention in Bakersfield
- 05/22/2016 KBAK TV (CBS) (CA): Former President Bill Clinton closes UFW Convention with speech