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News and Events
- 02/06/2002 State Board of Education to Adopt Cesar Chavez Curriculum
- 01/28/2002 Retired farm workers to get more than $41,000 in pension checks; UFW appeals to workers who may not know they qualify
- 01/28/2002 Monterey Herald: Farmworkers may receive unclaimed pension – Union contract guaranteed thousands of dollars
- 01/22/2002 UFW to endorse Gutierrez for Arizona governor
- 01/17/2002 Ventura County Star: Pictsweet loses in firing dispute
- 01/16/2002 Pictsweet found guilty of illegally firing mushroom worker who backed UFW
- 12/22/2001 Ventura County Star: UFW, Pictsweet negotiations stall
- 12/20/2001 Ventura County Star: UFW distributes holiday gifts to farm-worker families
- 12/12/2001 The Monitor (TX): UFW protests lawmaker’s support for free trade bill
- 12/11/2001 Yakima Herald (WA): Farm Workers Protest Lack of Help
- 12/11/2001 UFW leaders, activists confront Hinojosa for ‘abandoning working family constituents’
- 12/11/2001 Tri-City Herald (WA): Ag workers protest labor agency
- 12/04/2001 Farm workers picket big Visalia nursery demanding job security in new UFW contract
- 12/04/2001 Fresno Bee: 1 Nursery workers demonstrate
- 11/30/2001 Los Angeles Times: Grape Grower Sued Over Harassment-Labor: EEOC brings action against Coastal Valley Management on behalf of female farm workers.
- 11/14/2001 Arizona Daily Star: County OKs Chavez holiday
- 10/20/2001 Farmworker &Latino activists launch biggest Valley registration drive as 250 attend all-day training conference
- 09/29/2001 Salinas Californian: Pension surprises retired ag worker
- 09/29/2001 Santa Cruz Sentinal: Farmworker finds pension pays off: $73,000, so far
- 09/28/2001 Retired Filipino-American farm worker to receive $73,357 pension check; UFW appeals to others who may not know about benefits
- 09/19/2001 The Monitor: Cornyn: Social Security card not needed for driver’s license
- 09/18/2001 One week later… Immigrant community, workers, labor and religious leaders to gather in heart of L.A.’s immigrant community and issue call for unity
- 09/14/2001 Saturday & Sunday in Calif., Ariz., Texas & Washington state: Farm workers organize nine events in four states honoring victims of terrorist attacks and statement from the farm workers’ movement on tragic terrorist attack against the United States
- 09/14/2001 Saturday & Sunday in Calif., Ariz., Texas & Washington state: Farm workers organize nine events in four states honoring victims of terrorist attacks and statement from the farm workers’ movement on tragic terrorist attack against the United States
- 09/12/2001 Statement from the farm workers’ movement on terrorist attack against the United States