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News Releases
- 03/31/2016 Sunday in Central, Coastal & Sonoma valleys: Farm workers march to honor Chavez birthday, stop Trump and push for overtime pay
- 03/23/2016 Why did Gerawan immediately send peach workers back to work after pesticide incident?
- 03/17/2016 Original marchers assemble to mark 50 years to the day Delano-to-Sacramento trek changed America
- 03/15/2016 Gerawan farm workers deliver petition demanding ag commissioner immediately investigate latest pesticide spraying incident
- 03/08/2016 Assemblywoman Gonzalez Proposes Overtime Equality for Farmworkers and Hillary Clinton Agrees
- 03/03/2016 UFW endorsement cites Clinton’s record of consistent support for farm workers & immigration reform
- 02/23/2016 More than 75,000 People Urge EPA to Ban Seven Dangerous Neurotoxic Pesticides
- 02/11/2016 Honoring slain Imperial Valley lettuce striker 37 years after he became a martyr for the UFW
- 01/19/2016 Farm workers ‘hopeful’ over U.S. high court taking case on President Obama’s immigration executive action
- 01/18/2016 Unveiling landmark safety bill aimed at stemming deaths & rising injury numbers on WA state dairies pushed by UFW, state labor & faith groups
- 01/05/2016 More than 80,000 People Urge EPA to Ban Dangerous Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
- 12/27/2015 Honoring Juan Huerta’s pioneering sacrifice and service for Salinas Valley farm workers
- 12/03/2015 ‘Nonie’ Graddy gave the farm workers some of the most important years of her life
- 11/19/2015 Activists support President Obama’s executive action protecting some immigrants from deportation, back continuing push for implementation
- 11/11/2015 11/11/15: Message from UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez: Remembering Latino vets on Veterans Day
- 11/10/2015 In 2-1 Decision, Fifth Circuit Upholds Preliminary Injunction in Texas v. U.S.
- 11/10/2015 Statewide UFW drive to get farm workers millions in back pay for unpaid rest periods and unpaid ‘nonproductive time’
- 11/04/2015 Over Half a Million People Sign Petition to NBC Studios, Telling Lorne Michaels, SNL, and NBC That Donald Trump’s Racism Is Not Funny
- 10/20/2015 UFW Foundation and Kern Coalition for Citizenship Leaders Join in National Actions to Demand the 5th Circuit Court to Rule on Administrative Relief
- 10/20/2015 U.S. EPA Administrator and UFW President will tour Stockton, Calif. farm, discuss enhanced Worker Protection Standard with farm workers
- 09/28/2015 Farm workers win long-fought battle for pesticide worker protections under new EPA rules
- 09/28/2015 Remarks by Arturo S. Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers of America, Telephone news conference announcing new EPA pesticide rules for farm workers
- 09/23/2015 UFW President Arturo Rodriguez & Cesar Chavez’s son, Paul Chavez, at White House arrival for Pope
- 09/23/2015 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joins grape strike veterans 50 years after his father; workers from big union ranches thank ’65 strikers for the gains of today
- 09/18/2015 Excerpts from Independent state judge’s ruling: Growers gave Silvia Lopez $20,000 for decert; Lopez’s ‘virtual sabbatical’ to get rid of the UFW; Gerawan let Lopez block roads to sign petitions