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News Releases
- 09/01/2000 UFW convention will name union’s political fund for Joe Serna Jr.
- 09/01/2000 Gov. Davis headlines UFW convention as Labor Day weekend gathering focuses on amnesty, fall election & organizing
- 08/30/2000 Ventura mushroom workers take demands for UFW contract to busy East L.A. intersection, talk about boycott
- 08/18/2000 Chavez’s family and UFW successor at bill signing, hail Chavez holiday as unique
- 08/18/2000 UFW kicks off drive to register Latinos & farm workers in Salinas
- 08/10/2000 UFW reply to Bush’s farm worker & Latino appeal: ‘look beyond rhetoric to policies’
- 08/10/2000 Statement from Cesar Chavez’s widow, Helen, on passage of state Chavez holiday bill
- 08/03/2000 UFW: Should W. be compared to Cesar Chavez with $3.35 Texas farm worker minimum wage?
- 06/06/2000 UFW & labor help kick off battle for new amnesty law as some 1,000 workers attend a ‘town hall’ meeting in Fresno
- 06/04/2000 UFW Pres. Rodriguez leads Sunday march targeting drive to win a contract at Gallo
- 06/03/2000 UFW & labor help kick off battle for new amnesty law as some 1,000 workers attend a ‘town hall’ meeting in Salinas
- 06/01/2000 UFW backs Speaker Hertzberg’s plan to move farm labor contractor issue to conference committee
- 05/31/2000 Hearing with state pesticide chief into plight of Earlimart victims from 11/3 mass poisoning incident
- 05/31/2000 Mushroom worker kids leads hundreds marching down Oxnard streets for a better life with a UFW contract
- 05/30/2000 UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta details Gallo farm labor contractor abuses of vineyard workers in Sonoma County
- 05/30/2000 Farm worker sit ins protest Assemblyman’s Calderons’ ‘betrayal’ over key bill to end ‘worst abuses’
- 05/30/2000 Farm worker sit ins protest Assemblymembers Flores & Reyes ‘betrayal’ over key bill to end ‘worst abuses’
- 05/08/2000 UFW Pres. Rodriguez, 200 farm workers lobby Monday at Capitol for minimum disability benefits
- 05/05/2000 UFW wins first major stake in California strawberry industry at Coastal Berry Co.
- 05/05/2000 Petaluma nursery workers vote for UFW on ‘Cinco de Mayo’
- 05/03/2000 Some 200 farm workers Wednesday urge passage of contractor bill
- 04/29/2000 Thousands of school kids join families honoring Cesar Chavez’s legacy 7 years after his passing with 2nd L.A. Walk-a-thon
- 04/06/2000 Chavez family and UFW leader join Senator Polonco to unveil additions to Cesar Chavez holiday bill
- 03/31/2000 As his birthday nears, school kids learn about Cesar Chavez as speakers fan out across greater Los Angeles area
- 03/16/2000 UFW expresses gratitude for Mayor Serna’s $120,000 gift