Community Relief Event – Monday February 1, 2021 – 1:00pm
We are excited to inform you that tomorrow Monday February 1, we will be hosting our first Community Relief Event for 2021. We are honored to partner up with UFW, Friends of Field Workers, El Rio School District, County Schools Federal Credit Union, Dignity Memorial, and Ventura County Behavioral Health (Logrando Bienestar). The event will take place from […]
UFW Union Booted by Cal Ag Labor Board from Gerawan Farming
By Chriss Street The United Farm Workers (UFW) were booted on Thursday as the union representatives for 3,000 workers at Gerawan Farming by the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) after a court battle that lasted half a decade. According to the Los Angeles Times, the decision is a crushing defeat for the UFW, founded by Cesar Chavez […]
Farmworkers and the New Civil Rights Struggle – Decertification of Bad Unions
Summary: It’s a basic civil right: the ability of union members to get rid of a union if it no longer serves its members effectively. Today, that right is being denied to a group of farmworkers in California by officials who refuse to count the votes the workers cast in a decertification election. That denial […]
