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News and Events
- 01/11/1999 Hispanic Li: Latino leaders assist workers frozen out of jobs
- 12/22/1998 San Jose Mercury Ne: Berry pickers to share $283,000, grower settles suit over unpaid labor
- 12/21/1998 UFW’s Rodriguez to announce $283,000 for 491 Reiter berry workers from settlement of federal class action suit alledging work without pay
- 12/17/1998 Clergy report on Watsonville-area strawberry worker abuses, join UFW’s Dolores Huerta in launching drive among Bay Area congregations
- 12/08/1998 Monterey Hera: Environmentalist decry cutting pesticide buffers
- 12/01/1998 Veteran Labor Journalist David Bacon, December, 1998: Judge overturns company union victory in Watsonville
- 11/21/1998 San Jose Mercury Ne: State shrinks buffer zone for use of pesticides
- 11/20/1998 Gov.-elect Davis names UFW’s Rodriguez to ‘elite panel’ crafting policy on water and agricultural matters
- 11/19/1998 Modesto Bee: UFW calls for Gallo action
- 11/18/1998 Telegram-Tribune: Growers and workers preparing for another season of unrest
- 11/18/1998 Metro Santa Cr: Inspired by grower funding of front groups…
- 11/18/1998 Telegram-Tribune: Gallo history not an issue, Cal Poly says
- 11/18/1998 Associated Press: Growers and workers preparing for another season of unrest
- 11/12/1998 Chavez’s successor rallies support for West Coast berry workers cause among labor, political & religious leaders
- 11/10/1998 Farm labor board expected to uphold ruling invalidating strawberry vote
- 11/10/1998 Santa Cruz County Sentin: Coastal Berry Union Ballot is Invalidated
- 11/10/1998 Santa Cruz County Sentin: Records back UFW claims: Growers aided fight against union
- 11/10/1998 San Francisco Chronicle: Judge Quashes Workers’ Vote for Strawberry Union 162 employees missed in election
- 11/08/1998 San Diego Union Tribu: 3 decades after Chavez hunger strike, UFW wages old battle
- 11/02/1998 Los Angeles Tim: Where Have We Seen That Centrist Style Before? By GEORGE SKELTON
- 11/02/1998 Celebrities, Latino labor & political leaders form East L.A. ‘human billboard’ line for Davis on day before the election
- 10/17/1998 East L.A. students help turn out new immigrant Latino voters in breakthrough labor drive
- 10/15/1998 Metro Santa Cruz: IN DEEP WITH THE DOLPHIN GROUP
- 10/15/1998 Metro Santa Cruz: STRAWBERRY SHORT CHANGE: A year ago, the UFW filed suit alleging strawberry growers were providing financial support for ‘worker’ front groups. New evidence totes up grower efforts to keep the UFW out of the fields.
- 10/15/1998 San Francisco Chronicle: 4 Part Immigration Seri: NAFTA Gives Mexicans New Reasons to Leave Home