A California judge has temporarily blocked a hearing from taking place in a dispute between one of the state’s most influential agricultural companies and the country’s biggest farmworkers’ union. Kern County Superior Court Judge Bernard C. Barmann Jr.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A California judge has temporarily blocked a hearing from taking place in a dispute between one of the state’s most influential agricultural companies and the country’s biggest farmworkers’ union.
Kern County Superior Court Judge Bernard C. Barmann Jr. issued a preliminary injunction late Thursday halting the hearing and a push by the United Farm Workers to negotiate a labor contract for nursery workers at the Wonderful Co.enacted in California in 2022 aimed at making it easier for farmworkers to form labor unions by no longer requiring them to vote in physical polling places to do so.
At least four other groups of farmworkers have organized in California under the 2022 law, which lets the workers form unions by signing authorization cards. California has protected farmworkers’ right to unionize since the 1970s. Agricultural laborers are not covered by federal laws for labor organizing in the United States.
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