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News Releases
- 02/07/2007 Statement by Arturo Rodriguez, UFW President/UFW Foundation Board Chair to Workers at Freeze Meetings
- 02/05/2007 Suit Filed to Speed Phase-out of Deadly Pesticides
- 01/17/2007 UFW fights to ensure all hard-hit California farm workers receive relief from devastating freeze
- 01/11/2007 New Congress brings new opportunities for UFW to help enact historic AgJOBS bill with local events in California
- 01/10/2007 New Congress brings new opportunities to enact historic earned legalization for farm workers
- 12/26/2006 Attorney General to Farm Worker Movement: ‘all the allegations deemed by our office to require investigation were found to be without merit’
- 12/16/2006 UFW condemns U.S. immigration raids, urges comprehensive immigration reform
- 12/06/2006 Cesar Chavez inducted into Calif. Hall of Fame; Chavez family, UFW leader joins Gov. Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver
- 11/30/2006 Election Victory at Threemile Canyon Farms
- 11/21/2006 On eve of Thanksgiving, Krug-Mondavi workers turn in more than 17,000 signatures of consumers pledging to support boycott
- 11/01/2006 Farm workers settle lawsuit for $3.5 million; UFW president and elected officials urge D’Arrigo to also resolve sex and bad-faith bargaining actions
- 10/06/2006 Settlement announced for Kern County farm worker whose death inspired Gov. Schwarzenegger to issue heat reg.
- 09/11/2006 UFW unveils Camp Justice, targeting farm workers’ poor pay and conditions
- 09/01/2006 Two retired farm workers get more than $36,000 in pension checks; UFW appeals to workers who may not know they qualify
- 08/15/2006 Joint committee hearing 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Capitol: How did support for UFW at largest U.S. table grape company go from 74.5% to 48% in one week?
- 07/13/2006 A year after four valley farm workers died from extreme heat, new radio ads educate laborers about rights under state rules
- 07/05/2006 UFW: ‘Complete victory’ in binding mediation law ruling; hope for end to grower resistance in contract talks
- 06/27/2006 Grape workers demand Giumarras halt crippling and discriminatory practices
- 06/22/2006 Permanent vigil begins at Napa Valley winery by soon-to-be-fired Krug-Mondavi workers
- 06/20/2006 FARM WORKER WOMEN TO JOIN EEOC SEX BIAS SUIT AGAINST VALLEY GRAPE GROWER
- 06/15/2006 Soon-to-be fired Krug-Mondavi workers call for nationwide boycott of wine labels
- 06/15/2006 CA issues the first permanent heat regulation in the nation;
- 06/02/2006 Napa Valley wine workers ask Krug-Mondavi to avoid nationwide boycott
- 05/10/2006 UFW & coalitions that organized rural May 1 protests unveil lobbying drive to enact genuine immigration reform
- 05/01/2006 Much of California’s fresh fruit and vegetable harvest is shut down today