{"id":5084564,"date":"2018-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/teresa-romero-a-mexican-immigrant-is-united-farm-workers-first-female-president\/"},"modified":"2018-09-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T04:00:00","slug":"teresa-romero-a-mexican-immigrant-is-united-farm-workers-first-female-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2018\/09\/17\/teresa-romero-a-mexican-immigrant-is-united-farm-workers-first-female-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Teresa Romero, A Mexican Immigrant, Is United Farm Workers&#039; First Female President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nFifty-two years after Dolores Huerta negotiated the <a href=\"https:\/\/ufw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Farm Workers<\/a> union\u2019s first successful collective bargaining agreement, Teresa Romero will become the first woman to serve as its president.<br \/>\nRomero, 60, will take over the job when the current president, <a href=\"https:\/\/ufw.org\/about-us\/executive-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arturo Rodr\u00edguez<\/a>, steps down in December. She becomes only the third person to hold the job. Before Rodr\u00edguez, the late civil rights leader C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez served as the UFW president.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tc tl-m ad-container\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"taboolaReadMoreBelow\">The UFW said Romero is the first Latina and first immigrant woman to head a national union in the United States.<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes I still pinch myself,&#8221; Romero said Tuesday in a phone call with NBC News. &#8220;This is what C\u00e9sar (Ch\u00e1vez) used to call \u2018la causa.\u2019 It\u2019s not 8-5 work. You give your heart and life to it.&#8221;<br \/>\nOriginally from Mexico, Romero came to the U.S. on a temporary visa and stayed. The 1986 immigration bill signed by President Ronald Reagan allowed her to become a legal resident and eventually a U.S. citizen.<br \/>\nRomero said she takes over the UFW with the union in a position of strength, even though membership in unions has been on the decline.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tc tl-m ad-container\"><\/div>\n<p>The union won protections from heat illness for all farmworkers in California. They now have the right to clean and cold water, to take breaks and to take them in shade. It also has been able to secure overtime for farmworkers in the state. It is working to secure those rights for farmworkers nationally.<br \/>\nThe union has been able to win pesticide protections for farmworkers nationally, she said.<\/p>\n<section class=\"inlineVideo___3ZAlE\">\n<div class=\"background___MJluj\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em><strong>To read full article, please visit:\u00a0https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/teresa-romero-mexican-immigrant-will-be-united-farm-workers-first-n904481<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Fifty-two years after Dolores Huerta negotiated the United Farm Workers union\u2019s first successful collective bargaining agreement, Teresa Romero will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1001],"tags":[1425],"ppma_author":[565],"class_list":["post-5084564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ct-business","category-ma-business","category-ri-business","tag-dolores-huertasufwm-immigrant-farm-workersunited-farm-workers"],"acf":[],"mb":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Jermaine Smith","author_link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/author\/jay\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"&nbsp; 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