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15th November 2013, 19:55
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Take action! Tell ALRB to stand up to Gerawan bullying and give workers their UFW contract (http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9cc5/14552b18/47bcf0ce/2b4419d6/4230263058/VEsF/)
TAKE ACTION NOW
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http://action.ufw.org/gerawan1113
UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez and twenty Gerawan worker leaders were in Sacramento yesterday, November 13, 2013. They held a press conference pointing to three official state complaints issued against Gerawan as well as election objections the UFW filed yesterday laying out fresh legal violations by the employer. They are now publicly requesting that the labor board members not cave into bullying and instead implement the union contract hammered out by a neutral state mediator providing Gerawan workers with improved pay, benefits and other protections.
Can you join them virtually by taking action today?
http://action.ufw.org/gerawan1113
* Great news. We have a new system that makes it easier to participate.
After you take action, please ask your friends and family to take action too. You can send them an e-mail, post this campaign on your Facebook and/or Twitter page by clicking here or by going to http://action.ufw.org/page/share/gerawan1113
Background:
-- Gerawan Farming Inc., America’s largest grape and tree fruit grower, tried to bully state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg over his legislation to expand farm workers’ right to binding mediation when growers refuse to negotiate, by attacking him in TV ads described as dishonest. (http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=254668)
--According to complaints — tantamount to indictments — issued by the Agricultural Labor Relations Board General Counsel, the giant Fresno-based company then bullied its workers by illegally instigating and supporting two attempts to decertify the United Farm Workers. Both attempts were rejected by the ALRB regional staff, which issued three formal complaints over five months prior to November, accusing Gerawan of multiple serious violations of state law.
--Then, just as the three members of the ALRB were about to implement a decision from a neutral state mediator handing Gerawan workers their first-ever union contract, the board members - in an unprecedented move - overrode the ALRB regional staff and allowed a decertification election to proceed even though the ALRB field staff ruled after a thorough investigation that it would be “impossible” to conduct a free and fair election because of Gerawan’s illegal activities.
--To see more information you can read the 3 complaints by clicking the below links:
ALRB 10/31/13; ALRB 10/30/13; ALRB 9/25/13
Please take action today. Tell the three farm labor board members not to cave into Gerawan's bullying and instead implement the union contract hammered out by a neutral state mediator providing Gerawan workers with improved pay, benefits and other protections. The law says when the contract has been finalized, "the board shall issue an order confirming the mediator's report and order it into immediate effect."
http://action.ufw.org/gerawan1113
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Take action! Tell ALRB to stand up to Gerawan bullying and give workers their UFW contract (http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9cc5/14552b18/47bcf0ce/2b4419d6/4230263058/VEsF/)
TAKE ACTION NOW
http://action.ufw.org/page/-/gerawanalrb.jpg
http://action.ufw.org/gerawan1113
UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez and twenty Gerawan worker leaders were in Sacramento yesterday, November 13, 2013. They held a press conference pointing to three official state complaints issued against Gerawan as well as election objections the UFW filed yesterday laying out fresh legal violations by the employer. They are now publicly requesting that the labor board members not cave into bullying and instead implement the union contract hammered out by a neutral state mediator providing Gerawan workers with improved pay, benefits and other protections.
Can you join them virtually by taking action today?
http://action.ufw.org/gerawan1113
* Great news. We have a new system that makes it easier to participate.
After you take action, please ask your friends and family to take action too. You can send them an e-mail, post this campaign on your Facebook and/or Twitter page by clicking here or by going to http://action.ufw.org/page/share/gerawan1113
Background:
-- Gerawan Farming Inc., America’s largest grape and tree fruit grower, tried to bully state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg over his legislation to expand farm workers’ right to binding mediation when growers refuse to negotiate, by attacking him in TV ads described as dishonest. (http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=254668)
--According to complaints — tantamount to indictments — issued by the Agricultural Labor Relations Board General Counsel, the giant Fresno-based company then bullied its workers by illegally instigating and supporting two attempts to decertify the United Farm Workers. Both attempts were rejected by the ALRB regional staff, which issued three formal complaints over five months prior to November, accusing Gerawan of multiple serious violations of state law.
--Then, just as the three members of the ALRB were about to implement a decision from a neutral state mediator handing Gerawan workers their first-ever union contract, the board members - in an unprecedented move - overrode the ALRB regional staff and allowed a decertification election to proceed even though the ALRB field staff ruled after a thorough investigation that it would be “impossible” to conduct a free and fair election because of Gerawan’s illegal activities.
--To see more information you can read the 3 complaints by clicking the below links:
ALRB 10/31/13; ALRB 10/30/13; ALRB 9/25/13
Please take action today. Tell the three farm labor board members not to cave into Gerawan's bullying and instead implement the union contract hammered out by a neutral state mediator providing Gerawan workers with improved pay, benefits and other protections. The law says when the contract has been finalized, "the board shall issue an order confirming the mediator's report and order it into immediate effect."
http://action.ufw.org/gerawan1113
OUR E-MAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED. Please add our new email [email protected] to your safelist/address book so that our messages don’t get trapped in your spam filter. If you have questions about how to do this, drop us an e-mail.
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Check out the UFW's Social Networking pages. Click to visit our Facebook, YouTube, Twitter pages. Become our "friend" and follow us.
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