Act Now: Tell your US Rep farm workers deserve overtime
News Releases
- 11/29/2010 UFW joins DREAM students to call on Congress to pass AgJOBS and DREAM Act legislation this year
- 11/22/2010 Interfaith groups urge grocery chain to help end abuse of indigenous farm workers at Thanksgiving prayer service
- 11/19/2010 Monday in Los Angeles: National report documents conditions of immigrant women in the U.S. food industry, highlights the need for AgJOBS
- 11/16/2010 National report documents conditions of immigrant women in the U.S. food industry, highlights the need for AgJOBS
- 11/03/2010 UFW: Jerry Brown’s victory marks ‘the end of an era’ of immigrant bashing and disrespecting the contributions of Latinos in California
- 11/02/2010 UFW President and hundreds of farm workers walking to get-out-the-vote
- 11/02/2010 UFW President Arturo Rodriguez at Jerry Brown event in Oakland: After two-week drive by hundreds of farm workers for Brown, Boxer and other Democratic candidates
- 11/01/2010 UFW President and hundreds of farm workers join gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown at get-out-the-vote rally in Salinas today
- 10/29/2010 Hundreds of farm workers rally Latino voters for Jerry Brown in Kern; gubernatorial candidate to stump in Bakersfield Saturday
- 10/28/2010 Dozens of farm workers form human billboard in San Francisco in statewide drive to turn out Latino voters – UFW rallies Latino vote for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown
- 10/21/2010 Dozens of farm workers rally Latino voters for Jerry Brown in Santa Rosa; kick off UFW statewide get-out-the-vote campaign
- 10/15/2010 UFW asks to meet with California Lt. Gov. Maldonado after reports of unsafe conditions at his farm
- 10/13/2010 Chemical Threat: Groups Call for Pesticide Ban – Consumers, Parents, Health Advocates, Farm Workers and Others Target Widely Used Pesticides Linked to Attention and Learning Problems
- 10/05/2010 Farm workers tell Meg, ‘I am Nicky,” urging billionaire not to use them and then throw them away
- 09/24/2010 Statement of Arturo S. Rodriguez President of United Farm Workers of America Before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law ‘Protecting America’s Harvest’
- 09/24/2010 Farm Worker Movement Mourns Passing of Famed photographer George Ballis, who chronicled the UFW
- 09/23/2010 Stephen Colbert, UFW’s Rodriguez ask U.S. citizens to take farm jobs, urge Congress to pass immigration reform and AgJOBS Testifying at ‘Protecting America’s Harvest’ congressional hearing
- 09/23/2010 United Farm Workers’ Take Our Jobs Update September 24, 2010
- 09/17/2010 Hundreds of farm workers rally Latino voters for Jerry Brown in San Jose and Gilroy
- 09/16/2010 UFW awards ‘Si Se Puede’ scholarships to 12 Central Coast college students, children of union members, during awards ceremony banquet
- 09/15/2010 UFW Joins Faith, Civil Rights and Immigrant Leaders to Introduce Way Forward for Immigration Reform
- 09/07/2010 Eulogy for Manuel Vasquez, by Arturo S. Rodriguez, President United Farm Workers of America, September 7, 2010—Delano, Calif.
- 08/21/2010 Remarks by Arturo S. Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers of America Memorial Service for Stephen Rivers August 21, 2010—Los Angeles
- 08/20/2010 United Farm Workers Statement on New State Heat Illness Regulations
- 07/29/2010 Salinas UFW delegation takes off to Phoenix, Arizona without ‘papers’ to challenge SB 1070 anti-immigrant law