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News and Events
- 06/10/2000 Bakersfield Californian: Pesticide sprayed on workers; 24 taken to emergency room
- 06/08/2000 Bakersfield Californian: Hearings of farm labor violations proceed without presence of United Farm Workers
- 06/06/2000 UFW & labor help kick off battle for new amnesty law as some 1,000 workers attend a ‘town hall’ meeting in Fresno
- 06/05/2000 Santa Rosa Press Democrat: UFW may seek Gallo boycott
- 06/04/2000 UFW Pres. Rodriguez leads Sunday march targeting drive to win a contract at Gallo
- 06/03/2000 UFW & labor help kick off battle for new amnesty law as some 1,000 workers attend a ‘town hall’ meeting in Salinas
- 06/02/2000 Sacramento Bee: Bill targeting farm labor violations stalls: workers would have been able to sue grower
- 06/01/2000 Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Gallo farm workers allege mistreatment
- 06/01/2000 UFW backs Speaker Hertzberg’s plan to move farm labor contractor issue to conference committee
- 05/31/2000 Mushroom worker kids leads hundreds marching down Oxnard streets for a better life with a UFW contract
- 05/31/2000 Hearing with state pesticide chief into plight of Earlimart victims from 11/3 mass poisoning incident
- 05/31/2000 Los Angeles Times: Field Workers need this shield
- 05/31/2000 Whittier Daily News: Assemblyman refuses to back farmworkers
- 05/31/2000 Bakersfield Californian: Farm workers target lawmakers over bill
- 05/31/2000 Bakersfield Californian: Larger spraying buffer sought
- 05/30/2000 Farm worker sit ins protest Assemblymembers Flores & Reyes ‘betrayal’ over key bill to end ‘worst abuses’
- 05/30/2000 Farm worker sit ins protest Assemblyman’s Calderons’ ‘betrayal’ over key bill to end ‘worst abuses’
- 05/30/2000 UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta details Gallo farm labor contractor abuses of vineyard workers in Sonoma County
- 05/27/2000 San Francisco Chronicle: Fairness for farmworkers
- 05/26/2000 Los Angeles Times: UFW Toils in a new field: Cities
- 05/08/2000 UFW Pres. Rodriguez, 200 farm workers lobby Monday at Capitol for minimum disability benefits
- 05/05/2000 Petaluma nursery workers vote for UFW on ‘Cinco de Mayo’
- 05/05/2000 UFW wins first major stake in California strawberry industry at Coastal Berry Co.
- 05/05/2000 Los Angeles Times: Labor Board Gives UFW a Victory in Oxnard Agriculture: United Farm Workers wins right to represent more than 700 strawberry pickers. Officials say it marks first time in 20 years they have had union leadership.
- 05/04/2000 Associated Press: FARM SCENE: Farmer union and rival share representation of berry workers