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News Releases
- 06/29/2016 Tom Steyer joins farm workers, UFW’s Rodriguez, Bishop Soto by raising alarm over 100°-plus temps in summer harvest seasons
- 06/23/2016 UFW: U.S. high court’s deadlocked ruling over immigration will return to a full panel; ‘we will never forget’ politicians who caused needless suffering
- 06/07/2016 More on passing of Helen Chavez, who helped her husband, Cesar Chavez, give birth to and sustain America’s first enduring farm workers union
- 06/06/2016 Passing of Helen Chavez, who helped her husband, Cesar Chavez, give birth to and sustain America’s first enduring farm workers union
- 06/01/2016 Farm workers’ heroic efforts to pass overtime fall short
- 05/26/2016 Cesar Chavez called Monsignor Gene Boyle to be a priest of the farm worker movement
- 05/22/2016 Saturday & Sunday, May 21-22 in Bakersfield: Recent union gains for farm workers plus new global initiatives to protect workers focus of UFW convention that hears Gov. Jerry Brown Saturday and President Bill Clinton Sunday
- 05/21/2016 Overwhelming vote for UFW by blueberry workers at McFarland ranch with 627 workers
- 05/19/2016 Remarks by Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Senator Robert Kennedy and president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, at UFW pre-convention dinner on Thursday, May 19, 2016.
- 05/19/2016 UFW links present-day farm worker activism with historic 50-year commemorations
- 05/19/2016 Exciting new UFW initiatives for farm workers across state & national borders
- 05/19/2016 UFW improving farm worker lives through proactive union work
- 05/19/2016 Saturday & Sunday, May 21 & 22 in Bakersfield: UFW convention spotlights recent union gains for farm workers plus new global initiatives to protect workers
- 05/19/2016 7 p.m. Thursday, May 19 in Bakersfield: RFK daughter Kerry Kennedy, Little Joe Hernandez, Martin Sheen, Antonio Villaraigosa spotlight UFW pre-convention dinner
- 05/18/2016 3 p.m. Thursday, May 19 in Keene: Kerry Kennedy, RFK’s daughter, to visit Keene, pay respects at Cesar Chavez’s gravesite
- 05/18/2016 UFW files for speedy union election as strike by 400-plus blueberry workers in McFarland enters its third day
- 04/20/2016 UFW wins election to represent 240 farm workers at Ventura County vegetable & nursery companies
- 04/19/2016 EPA Takes Next Step Toward Banning Toxic Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
- 04/18/2016 Monday in D.C. & Salinas: UFW Foundation members from Arvin to Salinas rally so immigrant children and parents of citizens & lawful residents can apply for protection from deportation
- 04/16/2016 Farm labor board rules Gerawan guilty of ‘extensive’ and ‘illegal misconduct’ in violating state labor law
- 04/15/2016 11 a.m. Sunday in Delano: Farm workers march to honor Chavez legacy, stop Trump & push overtime pay
- 04/10/2016 Happy Birthday Dolores Huerta
- 04/08/2016 10 a.m. Sunday in Oxnard: Farm workers march to celebrate Chavez legacy, stop Trump and push for overtime pay
- 04/08/2016 12 noon Sunday at downtown L.A. Cathedral: Archbishop Gomez’s Cesar Chavez mass 50 years to the day after historic UFW march
- 03/31/2016 Sunday in Central, Coastal & Sonoma valleys: Farm workers march to honor Chavez birthday, stop Trump and push for overtime pay