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United Farm Workers
United Farm Workers news and analysis from The Nation
January 12, 2021
In California’s agricultural heartland, farmworkers are fighting back against expensive rents, substandard housing, and economic disenfranchisement.
October 18, 2017
Toxic smoke, destroyed homes, and fears of deportation are hitting immigrant communities all at once across Northern California.
October 3, 2016
Months of strikes and organizing in Washington led to the first U.S. farmworker union in years.
March 31, 2016
In 1952, Fred Ross appeared at Chavez’s door. The meeting changed Chavez’s life—and farmworker history.
April 9, 2014
The new film turns decades of organized struggle into the inspiring tale of one man.
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April 1, 2014
A new film about the labor leader reduces him to a caricature and ignores his true strengths as an organizer.
January 25, 2012
A Q&A with Frank Bardacke, whose new book Trampling Out the Vintage complicates the legend and legacy of Cesar Chavez.
January 5, 2012
The UFW had two souls—the strike, and the boycott.
January 21, 2006
Cesar, who was always good at symbols, saved his best for last: a simple pine box, fashioned by his brother's hands, carried unceremoniously through the Central Valley town he made famous.
March 25, 1978
A report on the enormous number of farm workers displaced by the farming machines developed at the University of California.
