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News Coverage
- 12/02/2002 Modesto Bee – 1 Obscure board key to new farm labor law
- 11/16/2002 Los Angeles Times- UFW Pensions Catch Many by Surprise
- 11/04/2002 Prospect Magazine – The Left Coast Goes Lefter: Even Gray Davis gets swept along
- 10/20/2002 The Sacramento Bee – Chavez, Steinbeck:The ties that bind
- 10/03/2002 Los Angeles Times 1 UFW Used Brinkmanship to Win 2 Laws – Labor: The union’s legislative team cornered Gov. Davis into signing mediation bills.
- 10/02/2002 Los Angeles Times 1 Pickers in Ventura Hope New Law Resolves Dispute – Agriculture: At the Pictsweet Mushroom Farm, held up as a symbol of union battle, workers look to mandatory mediation for a contract.
- 10/01/2002 San Francisco Chronicle 1 Farmworkers get boost from Davis – Flurry of action on bills as midnight deadline arrives
- 10/01/2002 Associated Press 1 Gov. Gray Davis signs farmworker mediation bills
- 09/23/2002 Washington Post: Farm Worker Pacts Stir Calif. Conflict – Governor Caught Between Union, Growers
- 09/19/2002 Sacramento Bee: New postage stamp pays tribute to farm workers’ late champion
- 09/18/2002 San Francisco Chronicle: Study criticizes pesticide laws – It says harvesters lack protection
- 09/09/2002 Los Angeles Times: COMMENTARY – Davis Is Caught in Jaws of Two Latino Demands
- 09/09/2002 Los Angeles Times: CAPITOL JOURNAL – Lawmakers’ Own Roots Support Farm Workers
- 09/04/2002 Vida en el Valle: UFW celebrates its past with an eye toward future
- 09/02/2002 Fresno Bee: UFW resigned to bill’s compromises
- 09/01/2002 Ventura County Star: Editorial: A fair deal for UFW, growers
- 09/01/2002 Bakersfield Californian: Davis in jam over farm legislation
- 09/01/2002 Associated Press: Legislature makes new concessions to Davis in farmworker bill
- 09/01/2002 Fresno Bee: UFW yields on labor bill – Changes limited to five years, cap put on cases
- 08/31/2002 Fresno Bee: Governor faces two hard decisions on UFW contracts
- 08/30/2002 Associated Press: Assembly OKs revised bill UFW hopes Davis will sign
- 08/30/2002 Associated Press: Farm workers union agrees to remove binding arbitration from bill
- 08/30/2002 San Francisco Chronicle: Revised farm labor bill expected to win passage
- 08/29/2002 LA Weekly Growing Pains – What the governor sows, he will reap
- 08/29/2002 San Jose Mercury News United Farm Workers offer Davis a compromise UNION WILLING TO RELY ON MEDIATORS INSTEAD OF BINDING ARBITRATION