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News and Events
- 08/03/2001 Bakersfield Californian: UFW chief rallies support for proposals
- 08/02/2001 Kennedy & Berman introduce UFW bills to legalize 500,000 undocumented farm workers
- 07/21/2001 Sacramento Bee: Davis gets legislation to stiffen farm laws
- 07/20/2001 Sacramento Bee: Bush rekindles immigration debate
- 07/19/2001 San Francisco Chronicle: Hard work, fair pay (opinion page)
- 07/19/2001 Strengthened’ UFW farm labor contractor bill seeks beefed up enforcement for cheating workers
- 07/14/2001 Ventura County Star: Rabbi group backs UFW in Pictsweet action
- 07/13/2001 Orange County Register: New guest-worker plan triggers controversy: Immigration advocates say it is a needless complication.
- 07/13/2001 Top U.S. rabbi presents check in Oxnard, uses D.C. connections to promote Pictsweet mushroom boycott
- 07/12/2001 Latino, church, farm worker advocates blast growers for betraying compromise plan to legalize undocumented farm laborers
- 07/11/2001 The Monitor: Former UFW member receives pension
- 07/10/2001 Retired Texas farm worker will get $13,000 pension check from United Farm Workers fund; others may not know about union benefits
- 07/01/2001 Knight-Ridder Publications: 7/01 Op-Ed by UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez Historical proposal for farm worker legislation
- 06/28/2001 Ventura County Star: Mushroom farm faces new ALRB labor complaint
- 06/28/2001 Los Angeles Times: Labor Board Files Action on Pictsweet
- 06/27/2001 New York Times: Unions Say Labor Department Is Ignoring Wage Requirements
- 06/27/2001 ALRB prosecutors charge Pictsweet refused to bargain, used pay and jobs to oppose union contract for workers
- 06/26/2001 The Monitor : UFW protests Perry’s denial of immigrant driver licenses
- 06/07/2001 Sacramento Bee : Court approves deal to pay farm workers — 2 years late
- 06/05/2001 More than 100 to create “human billboard” to turn out Los Angeles’ Latino voters
- 05/27/2001 Sacramento Bee : Farm labor’s dangers detailed
- 05/26/2001 Sacramento Bee : Farm labor abuses alleged
- 05/20/2001 Sacramento Bee : “Dirt Cheap”: It’s a story that won’t go away. Thousands of California farm workers still aren’t even being paid minimum wage. Worse yet, some aren’t being paid at all. This three part series documents how growers, labor contractors, wealthy landowners, financial institutions, state regulators, legislators and even the governor have failed to follow, enforce or enact laws to protect those whose labor makes California’s fields, orchards and vineyards golden.
- 04/24/2001 Sacramento Bee : UFW backs bill to curb wage abuse
- 04/24/2001 Bakersfield Californian: Cesar Chavez statue unveiled