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Festival Returns After Two Years — 08/23/2022
Increased Costs Cancels Parade, UMOS Mexican Independence Day Festival Continues — 08/11/2022
WI DWD and UMOS Awarded $3Million to Increase Access to Unemployment Insurance — 06/16/22
Kenosha Community Outreach Event — 03/25/22
Lupe Martinez, CEO, Op-Ed: Human Trafficking Happens Everyday — 1/27/2022
Clarke County Press January is Human Trafficking Month — 1/21/2022
Past News Articles
2021
Klement’s Sausage Supports UMOS Food Pantry — 12/28/2021
UMOS Announces Hispanic of the Year Award Recipients — 12/17/2021
TMJ4 I-TEAM Story: Labor trafficking crimes a reality in Wisconsin — 11/03/2021
MilMag Interview: Lupe Martinez’s Journey From Farm to (Boardroom) Table — 10/15/2021
Multi-Agency Community Outreach Event — 09/21/2021
Klement’s Sticks It To Hunger on National Snack Stick Day — 08/26/2021
UMOS Cancels Parade and Festival — 07/28/2021
Notable Minority Executives – Lupe Martinez — 03/01/2021
Charting UMOS’s Evolution, from Migrant Advocacy Group to $62 Million Agency — 02/25/2021
Two Milwaukee Organizations Win Grants to Address Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault — 02/18/2021
2020
UMOS Awarded Grants to Assist Employers and Job Seekers in 6 Additional Counties — 12/13/2020
Advocate Aurora Health Gives 500,000 Dollars More In Grants to Improve Milwaukee — 11/13/2020
UMOS to be Awarded Over $25 Million Texas Contract — 10/30/2020
UMOS Presents Annual Corporate Awards — 10/26/2020
Department of Labor Awards Contract to Assist Farmworkers in Illinois — 10/6/2020
Funding For Farm Workers — 09/03/2020
UMOS Cancels, Postpones Events — 08/26/2020
2019
UMOS Expands Services Statewide to Victims of Human Trafficking — 11/14/2019
Recipients Honored At Hispanic Awards Banquet — 10/22/2019
Job-Training Program Offers Inmates a Lucrative New Career — 10/03/2019
How Lupe Martinez Went from a Migrant Worker to a CEO — 10/03/2019
Ready Before Release — 09/25/2019
UMOS Mexican Independence Parade and Festival — 09/11/2019
Picnic and Public Hearing — 08/14/2019
UMOS Awarded $3 Million Grant — 08/02/2019
Men Forced to Work as Part of Human-Trafficking Scheme— 05/29/2019
2018
UMOS and LOTUS receive 800K Federal Award — 11/21/2018
Mujer UMOS Secure Grant — 10/2/2018
Brides Walk to Kick Off Domestic Violence Awareness Month — 10/02/2018
Packers Present Lupe Martinez With Hispanic Heritage Award — 09/14/2018
Consul of Mexico to Perform El Grito — 09/06/2018
Farmworker Justice to Honor Lupe Martinez — 08/13/2018
UMOS Farmworker Appreciation Day Picnic and Public Hearing — 08/01/2018
2017
UMOS Awarded Human Trafficking Grant — 11/06/2017
Martinez Inducted into Farmworker Advocate Hall of Fame — 10/11/2017
Parade Celebrates Mexican Independence— 09/12/2017
UMOS Mexican Independence Parade and Festival — 08/29/2017
UMOS Hosts Annual Farmworker Appreciation Day — 08/08/2017
Media Advisory – Public Hearing — 08/04/2017
Nominations Sought for UMOS Hispanic Awards Banquet — 07/07/2017
UMOS Opens Florida Office — 06/27/2017
UMOS to Host Cerveceros Tailgate at Miller Park — 05/15/2017
2016
UMOS Offers Services to Farm Workers — 11/03/2016
UMOS Honors Outstanding Hispanics — 11/02/2016
UMOS Remembers Victims of Domestic Violence — 10/19/2016
Consul of Mexico To Perform El Grito — 09/06/2016
UMOS Holds Annual Hearing and Picnic — 08/11/2016
UMOS Mural Project – WTMJ-4 News — 08/10/2016
UMOS Mural Project – Fox 6 News — 08/10/2016
UMOS Mural Project – CBS 58 News-Telemundo — 08/10/2016
Wisconsin Council on Migrant Labor — 08/07/2016
Tammy Baldwin Stronger Way Act — 08/03/2016
Labor Department Awards — 07/07/2016
Historic Partnership Established — 06/28/2016
MAFO Board Elects Officers — 05/04/2016
A Statement from Lupe Martinez on Assembly Bill 450 — 02/25/2016
Milwaukee Agencies Participate in National Black HIV AIDS Awareness Day — 02/02/2016