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News Releases
- 04/18/1999 Salinas: Six years after his death, Cesar Chavez’s followers honor the legendary UFW founder by marching to continue his legacy and work
- 04/17/1999 N.Y.: Six years after his death, Cesar Chavez’s followers honor the legendary UFW founder by marching for strawberry worker rights
- 04/17/1999 L.A.: Six years after his death, Cesar Chavez’s followers honor the legendary UFW founder by marching to continue his legacy and work
- 04/13/1999 Senate Committee Supports New California Holiday In Honor of Cesar Chavez
- 03/31/1999 Leaders from labor, politics & entertainment mark Cesar Chavez’s birthday by passing the UFW founder’s legacy on to next generation
- 03/31/1999 UFW founder’s March 31 birthday marked as Caltrans chief Jose Medina, Dolores Huerta and farm worker supporters unveil Cesar Chavez Street signs on 101
- 03/29/1999 Lofgren Backs Movement to Designate March 31st a Federal Holiday in Honor of Cesar Chavez
- 03/29/1999 Cesar Chavez’s son marks UFW founder’s birthday by discussing what happened to the movement in the six years since his father’s death
- 03/18/1999 Biggest food giveaway in Tulare County as 1,500 citrus worker families receive aid through UFW & USDA
- 02/11/1999 First of six 18-wheel Vons trucks with food and baby supplies heads from L.A. store to stricken Valley citrus belt
- 02/09/1999 UFW: Stricken citrus workers awaiting relief from President Clinton’s disaster declaration
- 02/02/1999 State Health & Welfare Secretary Grantland Johnson, Deputy Assistant of the U.S. Department of Labor Theodore Mastroianni, other top state & U.S. officials to hear relief appeals from 400 citrus workers
- 01/21/1999 UFW hands out 10 tons of food to rural farm worker freeze victims underserved by relief efforts
- 01/19/1999 Strawberry workers victims of violence at sit-in protest over ALRB’s refusal to prosecute; UFW’s Huerta decries 16 years of agency inaction
- 12/21/1998 UFW’s Rodriguez to announce $283,000 for 491 Reiter berry workers from settlement of federal class action suit alledging work without pay
- 12/17/1998 Clergy report on Watsonville-area strawberry worker abuses, join UFW’s Dolores Huerta in launching drive among Bay Area congregations
- 11/20/1998 Gov.-elect Davis names UFW’s Rodriguez to ‘elite panel’ crafting policy on water and agricultural matters
- 11/12/1998 Chavez’s successor rallies support for West Coast berry workers cause among labor, political & religious leaders
- 11/10/1998 Farm labor board expected to uphold ruling invalidating strawberry vote
- 11/02/1998 Celebrities, Latino labor & political leaders form East L.A. ‘human billboard’ line for Davis on day before the election
- 10/17/1998 East L.A. students help turn out new immigrant Latino voters in breakthrough labor drive
- 10/10/1998 Sacramento hosts a unique Kennedy-Chavez photo exhibit; families of the two men mark 30 years since RFK’s assassination
- 09/21/1998 Vineyard workers hand UFW first election victory in Mendocino Co.
- 09/14/1998 Coastal Berry workers demand action from ALRB against ‘sham’ election
- 09/05/1998 UFW to announce new contracts as Labor Day weekend convention in Fresno focuses on farm worker organizing and political goals