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Labor organizers gathered with former workers outside the Windmill Mushroom Farm in Sunnyside to protest what they say are ...
United Farm Workers endorses Biden, says he’s an ‘authentic champion’ for workers The union on Tuesday said the Democratic president has proven throughout his life that he's an "authentic ...
In the Trump era, it is predictably under attack. Teresa Romero is the president of the United Farm Workers.(David Bacon) Lelo spoke so many times to so many members of the legislature that ...
A federal district court in California issued on Tuesday a preliminary injunction barring U.S. Border Patrol from using ...
Under President Trump, immigration enforcement has pushed into farm country. In Washington state in March, plainclothes ICE agents detained a farm labor organizer named Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino, ...
Kennewick, Wash.-based farm labor consultant Erik Nicholson, a former United Farm Workers national vice president, said he was encouraged Trump talked about legalizing farmworkers, but the ...
The United Farm Workers is boycotting Windmill Farms, the Canadian-based company that owns a mushroom farm on Midvale Road in Sunnyside, as workers there seek a union. The group and community ...
Several immigrant advocacy groups including the United Farm Workers union filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to pause a federal order requiring most alien residents to register with the federal ...
Teresa Romero, president of the United Farm Workers, said “vague comments to help our farmers and hotels have no detail and no factual basis.” “If there is a real desire to protect the farm ...
and the difference that he made in people’s lives and farm workers lives, it’s something that we should continue to do,” said Teresa Romero, president of United Farm Workers. “He was a ...