Steven Greenhut: Farmworkers Battle Unions and Bureaucrats

The California Agricultural Labor Relations
Board, whose objective enshrined in the labor code is to ensure
“the right of agricultural employees to full freedom of
association, self-organization, and designation of representatives
of their own choosing,” is doing no such thing, according to Steven
Greenhut. The board gave short-shrift to about 50 workers who
filled the board’s auditorium last Tuesday during its public
meeting. The assembled farmworkers were treated politely but their
long-standing concerns—that they are being denied the right to
select their own labor representatives—have been ignored. Neither
the governor nor any legislative leaders have been there to help
them.

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