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News and Events
- 12/04/2003 Associated Press – 1 m worker gets nearly $77,000 pension he didn’t know existed
- 12/04/2003 Remarks by Douglas Blaylock, JDLC Administrator
- 12/04/2003 Remarks by Arturo S. Rodriguez, President, UFW, AFL-CIO
- 12/04/2003 Biography: Francisco Flores Martinez
- 12/04/2003 Biography: Francisco Flores Martinez
- 12/04/2003 Retired 92-year-old farm worker will get $76,891 pension check; UFW appeals to workers who don’t know they qualify
- 11/27/2003 Modesto Bee: UFW seeks medical benefits at winery
- 11/22/2003 UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez Statement
- 11/22/2003 Chronology on the farm workers’ latest battle with Gallo of Sonoma
- 11/22/2003 Hundreds march urging Matt Gallo to stop denying health benefits for 75% of his workers or face new Gallo boycott
- 10/20/2003 San Diego Union Tribune: With elections on horizon, immigration bills have new momentum in Congress
- 10/14/2003 UFW opposes environmental permit for Threemile Canyon Farms
- 10/07/2003 Sacramento Bee – 1 Candidates keep up message to the end; Upbeat Bustamante, McClintock appeal to their core supporters
- 10/03/2003 UFW and Bustamante organizing ‘no’ on recall grass roots drive among Latino voters across the state
- 09/26/2003 Yuma Sun – Business / Ag News – Industry, farm worker advocates agree on farm laborer proposal
- 09/25/2003 San Francisco Chronicle – Editorial Page – Legalizing farmworkers
- 09/24/2003 Associated Press: Industry, farm worker advocates agree on agricultural workers proposal
- 09/24/2003 Tuscon Citizan: Rare support for overhaul of migrant law The bill would assure farmers of labor, smooth road to legal status.
- 09/24/2003 Santa Cruz Sentinel – Bill would help migrants get citizenship
- 09/24/2003 San Francisco Chronicle : Farmers, UFW hail bill to help laborers; Proposal would ease immigration rules for noncitizens
- 09/24/2003 La Jornada – Mundo, MExico D.F. : Legisladores estadunidenses, por reunificar la familia
- 09/23/2003 Farm Worker Movement offices to contact re: legalization
- 09/23/2003 Agriculture – Farm Worker Compromise Summary
- 09/23/2003 Chronology of Farm Worker Legalization Agreement Between United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO and Leaders of the Agricultural Industry
- 09/23/2003 Granting ‘freedom from fear [for] the hardest working, lowest-paid tax-paying workers in America’