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News and Events
- 03/04/1998 UFW to hand out tens of thousands in relief and $9,000 cash to valley farm worker flood victims from Phoenix radio station listeners
- 03/02/1998 Politi: UFW wins Kroger’s support
- 02/27/1998 Chavez’s brother brings Ca berry pickers appeal to a top buyer of Driscoll strawberries
- 02/25/1998 Two UFW-backed bills seek greater voice for farm workers and the public in water policy making
- 02/19/1998 Bakersfield : “Veggi Libel” measure still alive in assembly
- 02/19/1998 LA Weekly, Week of February 19, 1998: Hunger Haunts the Farm Workers-Aid comes late after the freeze; many go wanting
- 02/01/1998 ’98 strawberry orgainizing drive builds on last year’s victories
- 01/26/1998 Santa Cruz judge hands UFW two victories against growers and industry ‘front groups’
- 01/01/1998 Ms. Magazine, January/February: For a life of labor championing the rights of farm workers: Dolores Huerta, Woman of the year Women farm workers stand up to bias
- 12/23/1997 Three new UFW contracts include big Central Valley nursery plus first table grape grower since ’95
- 12/18/1997 Associated Press Child Labor Series : States do little to protect kids
- 12/17/1997 Associated Press Child Labor Series : No help for injured child laborers
- 12/16/1997 Associated Press Child Labor Series : Chemicals jeopardize child laborers
- 12/15/1997 Associated Press Child Labor Series : Child labor’s speak to AP
- 12/14/1997 Associated Press Child Labor Series : America’s secret child labor
- 12/12/1997 UFW sues Pajaro district for refusing to release public records on grower’s water use
- 12/09/1997 Associated Press Child Labor Series 1: From Fields and factories, Children’s voices emerge
- 12/01/1997 George Magazine, December 1997: Picking a fight
- 11/25/1997 NYC: Human billboards’ on bridges alert Thanksgiving commuters to abuses at huge Driscoll strawberry firm
- 11/17/1997 U.S. News & World Repo: Strawberry Fields and the Legacy of Cesar Chavez
- 11/05/1997 UFW: ALRB chair Stoker should quit, hearings just ‘platform to advance his political aims’
- 10/18/1997 Sacramento B: UFW attacks Lungren’s ‘guest worker’ plan
- 10/17/1997 Based on myth, Lungren guest worker idea would ‘cripple’ Latino farm workers
- 10/13/1997 UFW Co-Founder will join with 100’s of Gallo vineyard workers in announcing formal union charges against the huge Sonoma winery
- 10/12/1997 Cesar Chavez Plaza dedication draws UFW founder’s family and successor