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10th February 2014, 21:17
Tell Gerawan to have a heart: Sign the online Valentine's day card today!
Tell Gerawan to have a heart:
Sign the online Valentine's Day card today!
Tell Gerawan to have a heart:
http://action.ufw.org/gerawanvalentine
This Thursday, farm worker leaders representing thousands of fellow Gerawan Farming Inc. employees will present a giant-sized Valentine's Day card to company management. The card will ask the Gerawans to “have a heart” by rehiring pro-union laborers who were not recalled to their jobs when the pruning began last fall and by giving all Gerawan workers millions of dollars the grower is estimated to owe them in pay increases by implementing a union contract ordered by the state of California. Please join these workers virtually by signing our online Valentine's day card today!
The workers will visit the farm's corporate offices in Fresno, ask to speak with a Gerawan official and deliver the Valentine's Day card.
The United Farm Workers filed formal charges in December with the Agricultural Labor Relations Board over the huge grower’s refusal to recall workers, including UFW leaders among the work force, during the pruning season that began last fall because of their support for the union. The normal practice was for the employees to be recalled to their jobs in the pruning in late October or November. The UFW sent a list of eligible workers to Gerawan, asking that they be recalled. . Most have not been put back to work.
The Valentine's Day card will also call on Gerawan to implement its workers' first UFW contract. The ALRB ordered that the three-year contract immediately go into effect on November 19, 2013, but Gerawan has illegally refused to implement it, thereby denying its workers the right to finally enjoy the benefits of union representation and hard fought improvements at their workplace. Gerawan was paying general laborers $9 an hour in 2013; it’s now paying $10 because of UFW negotiations. But if Gerawan were to implement the contract now, it would be paying $10.25 per hour and that rate would jump to $10.75 per hour next month.
Please join this action virtually by signing the online Valentine's Day card today!
http://action.ufw.org/gerawanvalentine
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/gerawanvalentine
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Tell Gerawan to have a heart:
Sign the online Valentine's Day card today!
Tell Gerawan to have a heart:
http://action.ufw.org/gerawanvalentine
This Thursday, farm worker leaders representing thousands of fellow Gerawan Farming Inc. employees will present a giant-sized Valentine's Day card to company management. The card will ask the Gerawans to “have a heart” by rehiring pro-union laborers who were not recalled to their jobs when the pruning began last fall and by giving all Gerawan workers millions of dollars the grower is estimated to owe them in pay increases by implementing a union contract ordered by the state of California. Please join these workers virtually by signing our online Valentine's day card today!
The workers will visit the farm's corporate offices in Fresno, ask to speak with a Gerawan official and deliver the Valentine's Day card.
The United Farm Workers filed formal charges in December with the Agricultural Labor Relations Board over the huge grower’s refusal to recall workers, including UFW leaders among the work force, during the pruning season that began last fall because of their support for the union. The normal practice was for the employees to be recalled to their jobs in the pruning in late October or November. The UFW sent a list of eligible workers to Gerawan, asking that they be recalled. . Most have not been put back to work.
The Valentine's Day card will also call on Gerawan to implement its workers' first UFW contract. The ALRB ordered that the three-year contract immediately go into effect on November 19, 2013, but Gerawan has illegally refused to implement it, thereby denying its workers the right to finally enjoy the benefits of union representation and hard fought improvements at their workplace. Gerawan was paying general laborers $9 an hour in 2013; it’s now paying $10 because of UFW negotiations. But if Gerawan were to implement the contract now, it would be paying $10.25 per hour and that rate would jump to $10.75 per hour next month.
Please join this action virtually by signing the online Valentine's Day card today!
http://action.ufw.org/gerawanvalentine
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/gerawanvalentine
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.
Check out our website at: www.ufw.org and keep up with the latest news.
Check out the UFW's Social Networking pages. Click to visit our Facebook, YouTube, Twitter pages. Become our "friend" and follow us.
If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for the UFW List Serve.
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United Farm Workers, P.O. Box 62, Keene, CA 93531, http://www.ufw.org