Act Now: Tell your US Rep farm workers deserve overtime
News Releases
- 01/04/2017 Abused workers turned to UFW for help: Federal lawsuit filed alleges forced labor at rural Idaho dairy
- 12/19/2016 UFW endorses Perez to head DNC, citing ‘a different kind of candidate’ who ‘is not afraid of a fight’
- 12/08/2016 Central Valley residents urge state officials to protect schoolkids from hazardous pesticides
- 11/09/2016 UFW’s Arturo S. Rodriguez: ‘Making progress will be more difficult, but our practice of organizing for the long term will let us continue to win justice’
- 11/04/2016 UFW endorses Darren Soto for U.S. Congress
- 11/04/2016 UFW’s Arturo S. Rodriguez in Shafter & Delano to begin four-day door-to-door campaign to voters
- 10/25/2016 Farm worker movement marks Larry D. Itliong Day
- 10/24/2016 Gerawan agrees to settle charges it broke the law in 2013 by refusing to provide accurate worker addresses to the UFW
- 10/24/2016 Farm workers mourn passing of Tom Hayden
- 10/12/2016 UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez, US Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez to discuss labor rights, Latino issues to mark Hispanic Heritage Month
- 10/05/2016 UFW endorses Kamala Harris for U.S. Senate
- 09/27/2016 UFW sister organization participates in National Voter Registration Day in Kern and Tulare county rural areas
- 09/21/2016 Farmworker Advocates Call For Suspension of Highly Toxic Pesticide
- 09/13/2016 Overtime bill a precedent. Victory for farm workers
- 09/13/2016 Farm workers gather to celebrate Gov. Brown signing overtime into law
- 08/30/2016 Press Release from Asm. Gonzalez: Farmworker Overtime Bill Heads to Governor
- 08/29/2016 Hundreds of farm workers return to state Capitol for a vote on overtime pay
- 08/25/2016 250-plus farm workers from broad array of crops in every major Calif. ag region give up a day’s wages to lobby for overtime pay after eight hours
- 08/16/2016 Legislators and Faith Leaders Lead 24-Hour Fast for Farmworker Overtime
- 08/03/2016 Tom Steyer joins UFW to distribute water bottles to farm workers
- 08/02/2016 U.S. ambassador joins UFW president, Nicaraguan coffee farm owners to learn how union-company collaboration is raising worker wages by 50% in five years
- 08/01/2016 UFW will ‘sound the alarm’ on suspected heat deaths of farm workers in Kern County area
- 07/20/2016 Workers protest their firing by vineyard because they asked for a pay raise
- 07/01/2016 Senate Committee Approves Farmworker Overtime Bill (Calif.)
- 06/30/2016 State prosecutors hit Gerawan with fresh complaint