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News Releases
- 01/30/2019 New Jersey lawmakers, governor should reject minimum wage bill because of its racist exclusion of farm workers from protections all other workers would enjoy
- 01/24/2019 Remembering Nan Freeman 47 years after the young Jewish woman gave her life for farm workers
- 01/17/2019 Feinstein-Lofgren bill grants right to apply for legal status to farm workers ‘who feed America and all of us’
- 01/14/2019 Victory: Striking citrus workers got their bin rate back, but vow to continue working on other issues
- 01/14/2019 Hundreds of striking citrus workers at Delano packing plant pressing the Wonderful Company over cutting their pay and other grievances
- 01/09/2019 UFW applies to intervene in ag lobby lawsuit against U.S. Department of Labor seeking to lower pay for farm workers
- 11/13/2018 Farm Workers Excited about Possibility of Speaker Pelosi
- 11/10/2018 Kerry Kennedy, RFK’s daughter, moved during 50-year anniversary of farm workers medical plan named for her father at East San Jose church tied to history of Chavez & Kennedy
- 11/07/2018 Mourning Don Adan, an ‘unsung hero’ who ‘gave himself totally from his heart to the UFW’
- 09/28/2018 Cesar Chavez ‘never saw anything like’ organizer Janis Peterson; services set for fearless UFW organizer & pioneering education innovator
- 09/26/2018 Premiere raspberry workers protesting at Well-Pict cooler in Watsonville, demanding grower honors state-ordered contract
- 09/20/2018 UNITED FARM WORKERS BEGIN 5 DAY FAST FOR RECONCILIATION AT DARIGOLD HEADQUARTERS IN SEATTLE
- 09/18/2018 As Climate Heats Up, Public Calls for Worker Protections From Heat
- 09/17/2018 Seattle City Council Passes Resolution in Support of Dairy Workers
- 09/17/2018 Seattle Councilmembers Join Faith & Labor Leaders Standing With Darigold Farm Workers and Condemning Darigold Dairies’ Treatment of Workers
- 09/07/2018 ALRB orders one of state’s largest raspberry growers to honor a UFW contract; Central Coast workers win 15 percent pay hikes, health, pension, eight-hour overtime and an array of other benefits
- 09/05/2018 State judge orders back pay for four worker leaders Gerawan illegally refused to recall because they backed the UFW
- 09/05/2018 Farm worker sons & daughters receive the UFW ¡Si Se Puede!® scholarships
- 08/31/2018 Delano: Son of farm worker receiving the UFW ¡Si Se Puede!® scholarship
- 08/30/2018 Santa Rosa: A daughter of farm worker receiving UFW ¡Si Se Puede!® scholarship
- 08/29/2018 Livingston: Sons and Daughters of farm worker receive UFW ¡Si Se Puede!® scholarships
- 08/28/2018 UFW’s Arturo Rodriguez stepping down, replaced by first Latina & immigrant woman president of a U.S. national union
- 08/24/2018 Son and Daughter of farm worker receive UFW ¡Si Se Puede!® scholarships
- 08/13/2018 Passing of Chavez sculptor & movement supporter Bea Goldstein
- 08/09/2018 Court slams EPA failure to protect children and farmworkers from toxic pesticide