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The United Farm Workers and the California Farm Bureau are supporting the bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which would create a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s undocumented farmworkers.
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The labor organizer – a Mexican American with radical views on immigration, who swore by nonviolence but subsidized an illegal border patrol operation – was a man of many contradictions.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the United Farm Workers’ bill to change how farmworkers vote in union elections. Although labor rights activists are calling the bill a step toward progress, growers are frustrated and disappointed.
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The United Farm Workers’ voting rights bill passed out of the state legislature this week. The union is now hosting 24 hour vigils throughout the state to pressure the governor to sign the bill. One of them is in downtown Fresno.
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Thousands of supporters rallied behind the marchers in the final mile of their pilgrimage. The bill they support made its way to Newsom’s desk Monday afternoon.
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As the United Farm Workers’ march made its way into Fresno County from Malaga to Calwa this week, Bishop Joseph V. Brennan of the Fresno Diocese and members of the Catholic Church walked alongside them.
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Farmworkers from across the state have set off on a 335-mile trek to Sacramento to show support for a voting rights bill
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Farmworkers throughout California will start marching up the Central Valley this week to support a voting rights bill.
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The United Farm Workers is among the most high-profile unions in the state, despite a decades-long struggle to grow its ranks. To get a better sense of the challenge to recruit members, we speak with Philip Martin, UC Davis professor emeritus of agricultural and resource economics.
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The late Ricardo Favela was the child of farmworkers in Dinuba who went on to become a prominent artist, teacher and activist who helped found the Royal…