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News Releases
- 03/19/2014 Chavez family, UFW hope Wednesday White House screening of Cesar Chavez helps inspire the nation
- 03/19/2014 Immigration Reform Supporters including UFW, UFW Foundation Crash Rep. Goodlatte’s Party in Los Altos Hills
- 03/18/2014 House Republicans All Too Happy to Take Anti-Immigrant Votes but Refuse to Fix Broken Immigration System
- 03/14/2014 United Farm Workers and UFW Foundation to host fundraising screenings of new Cesar Chavez film
- 03/13/2014 Pesticide-contaminated communities call for ban
- 02/26/2014 National “Fast for Families” bus tour arrives in Bakersfield to urge Congress to keep families together and pass immigration reform
- 02/20/2014 UFW Reacts to Gov. Brown’s Agricultural Labor Relations Board Appointment
- 02/14/2014 UFW leader, farm worker to join President Obama during visit to California’s drought-stricken Ag lands
- 02/13/2014 Gerawan workers deliver ‘have a heart’ Valentine’s Day card asking for jobs and money they are owed
- 02/11/2014 ‘Shirley Temple Black got Cesar Chavez to deliver one of his most memorable speeches’
- 02/04/2014 Gerawan denied many of its farm workers minimum wage and overtime pay plus paid rest breaks, according to a major federal class-action lawsuit
- 02/04/2014 Gerawan says it pays the highest wages in the industry; class-action lawsuit alleges it doesn’t even pay many of its farm workers the minimum wage
- 02/04/2014 Remarks by Paul F. Chavez, President Cesar Chavez Foundation CHCI screening of ‘Cesar Chavez’ Washington, D.C.—February 4, 1014
- 02/04/2014 Remarks by Arturo S. Rodriguez, President United Farm Workers of America, CHCI screening of “Cesar Chavez”, Washington, D.C.—February 4, 1014
- 01/30/2014 UFW vows to keep pressure on Congress to pass immigration reform as House GOP immigration framework is revealed
- 01/29/2014 UFW encouraged by President Obama’s continuous commitment on immigration reform but asks House GOP to act on legislation
- 01/28/2014 Farmworkers and Advocates to Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers: Be Bold on Immigration Reform
- 01/24/2014 Immigration Reform “Office Hours”
- 01/24/2014 Farm worker advocates, interfaith leaders to hold prayer for immigration reform outside Congressman McCarthy’s office
- 12/23/2013 Workers protest today over Gerawan’s failure to recall union supporters for pruning
- 12/17/2013 Gerawan Farms workers to deliver holiday greetings card to employer with a wish: implementation of their union contract
- 12/10/2013 Farm workers urge U.S. Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Greg Walden to support immigration reform with path to citizenship, demand protection for workers’ families and end deportations
- 12/05/2013 Applying Nelson Mandela’s thoughts to our movement
- 12/04/2013 Who’s working the hardest for America? Farm workers pose that question to Congressman McCarthy and Republican leadership, as they ask them to “Do Your Jobs” and schedule a vote on immigration legislation
- 12/02/2013 California Immigrant Rights Groups Launch ‘11 Days for 11 Million” Sit-In, Fast in Front of Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy’s Bakersfield Office