Some community members noted that farmworkers work hard to sustain their families and the country’s food supply with their labor, so it’s disheartening to see white or white-passing people take the ...

UFW President Teresa Romero has been awarded with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, ... Davies focuses on bringing her interests in music, art and culture to L.A. storytelling.

Today, the union has 20 UFW contracts in California and about 6,000 members nationwide, down from an estimated 60,000 in the 1960s. But the new organizing method could be key to rebuilding numbers.

Like many unions, UFW has struggled to organize over the last few decades, its membership dwindling from 60,000 to around 6,000. Even with legal protection, farmworker organizing is often slow ...

The city of Modesto wants to charge the United Farm Workers marchers to use facilities at César E. Chavez Neighborhood Park, named after the UFW co-founder.