California farmworkers are marching 335 miles for the right to vote in union elections by mail 📝 Solcyre Burga (sol_cyre)
“Being able to vote by mail at home enables them to get assistance from a family member or a friend who is literate in the language that the ballot is printed in,” Fisk tells TIME.During the pandemic, the U.S. was swept by a wave of unionization efforts at big employers like Starbucks and.
a method of union voting akin to political elections that allow absentee ballots. Farmworkers would be able to decide between voting at a polling place, by mail, or by dropping it off with the ALRB. This would bring it in line with how union votes are conducted by the National Labor Relations Board , the federal agency that protects the labor rights of most private sector employees.It’s illegal to intimidate workers who try to form a union.
And as Strater suggests, the evidence of difficulty is in the numbers. UFW’s current membership rests at less than 8,000 union members nationwide, although California alone boasts more than 400,000 farmworkers.
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