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News Releases
- 08/26/1998 UFW suspends 26-day strike after death of David D’Arrigo
- 08/21/1998 World’s largest rose grower breaks ground on new $5 million, 150-job rose packing plant & signs new UFW contract
- 08/18/1998 L.A. City Council to pass resolution backing D’Arrigo workers in 3rd week of strike against huge vegetable grower
- 08/18/1998 Jackson to D’Arrigo: ‘time for you to sign a union contract is long overdue’
- 08/12/1998 D’Arrigo strikers appeal for support in S.F.’s Italian & Asian communities
- 08/09/1998 D’Arrigo workers use Sunday march to rally support for walkouts
- 08/07/1998 Nearly 400 D’Arrigo workers continue walkouts; harvesting halted as more strikebreakers leave fields Friday
- 08/06/1998 Scabs leave D’Arrigo fields as walkouts continue in push for contract; UFW filing charges of bad faith bargaining
- 08/05/1998 Biggest walkouts in years hit Salinas vegetable industry; D’Arrigo workers demanding UFW contract halt harvest
- 07/31/1998 Over 300 D’Arrigo vegetable workers walk off the job protesting bad faith bargaining
- 07/31/1998 “Union” Election at Coastal Berry in Doubt as ALRB Gets Evidence That At Least 162 Workers Never Had Opportunity to Vote
- 07/28/1998 Press Release from Senator Hilda L. Solis: Labor Committee Chair to Convene Oversight Hearing on ALRB Election Procedures Tied to Anti-Union Violence
- 07/28/1998 Joint labor committee in legislature to start hearings on ALRB behavior in Coastal Berry vote
- 07/28/1998 Workers at Largest North Coast Vegetable Farm Vote Overwhelmingly for UFW
- 07/24/1998 Strawberry Workers Strike Coastal Berry to Protest Sham Election And Company Union Tactics. Company’s San Andreas and Jensen ranches shut down as workers converge on company headquarters
- 07/23/1998 Statement of John J. Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO, on the “union” election at Coastal Berry Co.
- 07/23/1998 Statement from Arturo S. Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO-“Rule by terrorism” in Coastal Berry Co. election
- 07/23/1998 UFW: Sham Election Won’t Stop Strawberry Workers From Organizing a Union to Improve Their Lives. Workers want a real voice for better working and living conditions, not violence and pressure tactics
- 07/22/1998 State ‘surrenders to extortion’ in Coastal Berry Co. election
- 07/22/1998 Press Release from Senator Hilda L. Solis: Lawmakers investigating ALRB response to grower violence and control of election push at largest berry ranch
- 07/21/1998 Sacramento: Central coast farmworkers camp out at ALRB urging rejection of violence and ‘sham’ election bid by big berry grower.
- 07/21/1998 Salinas: Central coast strawberry workers hold vigil at ALRB urging rejection of violence and ‘sham’ election bid by big berry grower.
- 07/20/1998 Sweeney, Rodriguez link violence & ‘sham’ election bid to anti-union Coastal Berry Co. managers; canceled checks connect berry industry giants to ‘front’ groups
- 07/20/1998 Workers link violence & election bid to anti-union Coastal Berry Co. managers
- 07/15/1998 Supporters of ‘Stop the Salt, Save Our Jobs’ measure announce it has made fall ballot; water district board will also take up UFW-backed plan