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News and Events
- 07/20/1999 Florida’s largest mushroom producer signs contract with United Farm Workers
- 06/23/1999 Associated Pre: Study: Some California farmworkers at risk from pesticide poisonings
- 06/23/1999 San Francisco Chronic: State Slammed On Pesticide Regulation: Environmentalists’ report says farmworkers risk poisoning
- 06/11/1999 L.A. Week: UFW Can’t Sell the Union Label: The UFW loses strawberry vote – to a group that walks and talks like a company union
- 06/09/1999 Sacramento B: Peter H. King: The strawberry picker in the faded red shirt
- 06/09/1999 San Francisco Bay Guardi: Field of schemes The UFW may have been defeated by a company union — and the state labor board is looking the other way.
- 06/07/1999 San Francisco Chronic: Why Strawberry Fields Have Been Barren for UFW/Many factors in union’s loss last week in Watsonville vote
- 06/06/1999 San Francisco Examin: UFW labors to find growth
- 06/02/1999 San Jose Mercury Ne: Runoff necessary for Coastal Berry
- 06/02/1999 Associated Pre: Berry pickers head to the polls again
- 06/01/1999 Veteran Labor Journalist David Bacon, June, 1999: Charges of company unionism mar vote at Coastal Berry
- 05/31/1999 Manuel Chavez: Older brother of late UFW leader Cesar Chavez dies after battle with pancreatic cancer
- 05/28/1999 San Jose Mercury Ne: UFW trails in election – Berry workers: Union remains determined despite apparent defeat.
- 05/27/1999 Associated Pre: Berry Pickers’ Union Votes Counted
- 05/24/1999 Associated Pre: Union elections scheduled for berry workers
- 05/24/1999 Coastal Berry pickers vote Tuesday in Oxnard,Wednesday in Monterey & Santa Cruz counties
- 05/22/1999 Ventura County St: UFW files second petition for election
- 05/21/1999 Ventura County St: Workers rally for UFW election
- 05/21/1999 San Jose Mercury Ne: Growers agree to halt funding `company unions’
- 05/20/1999 San Francisco Chronic: UFW Wins `Company Unions’ Dispute
- 05/19/1999 As strawberry pickers prepare to vote in a new election, 20 berry growers and groups settle UFW suits over illegally funding ‘worker committees’
- 05/19/1999 San Jose Mercury Ne: UFW seeks new election
- 05/19/1999 Bakersfield Californi: Fruits of their labors
- 05/19/1999 San Francisco Chronic: UFW Tries Anew to Win Over Berry Workers
- 05/19/1999 Ventura County St: Coastal Berry may face UFW vote