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News and Events
- 09/26/2000 San Francisco Chronicle: Editorial – Bills, Bills and More Bills
- 09/24/2000 Los Angeles Times: Dark Days At Mushroom Plant, Contract Struggle Hurts Both Sides
- 09/22/2000 Los Angeles Times: Everything’s Coming Up Roses for a Grower and Its Workers
- 09/22/2000 Bakersfield Californian: Pesticide drift leads to settlement
- 09/21/2000 Cardinal Mahony blesses new Lady of Guadalupe rose produced by UFW members
- 09/21/2000 Poisoning victims respond as biggest pesticide misuse settlement in state history is made public
- 09/20/2000 Yakima Herald Republic: Flat Top Ranch Strikers Settle, Resume Work
- 09/17/2000 Santa Rosa Press Democrat: UFW relishes good year
- 09/17/2000 Seattle Times: Farm Workers’ co-founder joins hunger strike
- 09/13/2000 Ag Alert : Governor’s approval expected on new farm labor legislation
- 09/07/2000 Sacramento Bee: Help for farm workers: AB 2862 — a real tribute to Cesar Chavez
- 09/06/2000 Los Angeles Times: Wash. Workers Seek to Reap More Fruit for Their Labors
- 09/04/2000 Fresno Bee: Valley man voted into No. 2 post
- 09/03/2000 UFW chooses new No. 2 officer; four others added to union’s expanded executive board
- 09/03/2000 Fresno Bee: Governor heralds changes: Davis signs 3 key farm labor bills before addressing 1,000 at the UFW meeting in Fresno.
- 09/03/2000 Farm workers end longest-ever harvest-time strike
- 09/03/2000 Fresno Bee: Dolores Huerta eases out of farm-labor role: Key UFW leader opts to devote time to other projects, including Al Gore’s presidential bid
- 09/03/2000 Associated Press: Calif. governor signs farmworker safety bills, addresses UFW convention
- 09/02/2000 Los Angeles Times: UFW Wins Contract With Gallo
- 09/01/2000 Associated Press: Gallo reaches agreement with United Farm Workers; pay raises in store for general laborers
- 09/01/2000 Gov. Davis headlines UFW convention as Labor Day weekend gathering focuses on amnesty, fall election & organizing
- 09/01/2000 UFW convention will name union’s political fund for Joe Serna Jr.
- 09/01/2000 Lt. Gov. Bustamante addresses dinner at UFW’s Labor Day weekend convention
- 08/30/2000 Ventura mushroom workers take demands for UFW contract to busy East L.A. intersection, talk about boycott
- 08/25/2000 Ventura County Star: Pictsweet workers threaten boycott