Act Now: Tell your US Rep farm workers deserve overtime
News Releases
- 07/29/2010 Salinas UFW delegation takes off to Phoenix, Arizona without ‘papers’ to challenge SB 1070 anti-immigrant law
- 07/28/2010 UFW Praises Federal Judge for Blocking Key Parts of SB 1070, Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Bill
- 07/28/2010 UFW Stands by Family Seeking Justice in Heat Stroke Death of Teen Farm Worker at Farmington vineyard (Scroll down to see statement from Merlyn Calderon, UFW National Vice President)
- 07/28/2010 UFW on overtime bill veto: Excluding farm workers from overtime was wrong then, it is wrong today
- 07/19/2010 Farm workers, led by UFW president & Sen. Florez, hand deliver overtime bill to Gov. Schwarzenegger (With video and statement by UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez)
- 07/16/2010 UFW Laments The Death of a Farm Worker Who Died While Laboring in an Arvin Vineyard
- 07/07/2010 UFW President Joins Stephen Colbert in Calling on Jobless Citizens to Replace Immigrant Farm Workers
- 07/06/2010 Feds Sue to Stop Arizona’s ‘Misguided’ immigration law Implementing A Local Immigration Law Is The Wrong Approach
- 07/01/2010 President Obama: Deporting undocumented farm workers would be ‘intolerable’
- 06/25/2010 Opening of world-class conference center fulfills Chavez’s dream of training new generations of activists
- 06/24/2010 UFW’s national ‘Take Our Jobs’ campaign invites U.S. citizens to replace immigrant farm workers
- 06/23/2010 ‘Take Our Jobs’ Campaign Calls on Jobless Citizens to Replace Immigrants Farm Workers
- 06/08/2010 Viva Stephen Rivers!
- 06/02/2010 UFW joins labor leaders traveling to Arizona without ‘papers,’ challenge local authorities to arrest them on day anti-immigrant law goes into effect
- 05/13/2010 Members of the local clergy join workers at Giumarra vineyard praying for no more heat deaths as weather gets warm
- 04/29/2010 Saturday in Salinas with UFW Pres. Rodriguez & Bishop Garcia Farm workers, church leaders, allies at May Day UFW protest calling for immigration reform
- 04/29/2010 UFW, farm workers, church leaders observe May Day with a prayer for immigration reform
- 04/23/2010 UFW: Polarizing anti-immigrant bill targets Latinos and farm workers
- 04/22/2010 Fast and prayer vigil on anniversary of Cesar Chavez’s death calls on huge grower to end abuse of farm workers
- 04/19/2010 Faith and Community Leaders Speak Out Against SB 1070
- 04/18/2010 FARM WORKERS, LABOR UNION MEMBERS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF CESAR CHAVEZ
- 04/10/2010 Federal Court Rejects Agribusiness Attack on Obama Administration Rules on Agricultural Guestworkers
- 04/09/2010 UFW members, farm workers join over ten thousand to rally in Downtown Las Vegas for immigration reform
- 03/31/2010 Response from Chavez Family & UFW President Following White House Meeting with President Obama
- 03/31/2010 On Cesar Chavez Day, Farmworker & Health Advocates Petition U.S. EPA to Cancel Carcinogenic Pesticide