Posted on 05/17/2011 7:25:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The United Farm Workers Union is just a Jerry Brown autograph away from salvation. The UFW which has seen its membership decline from more than 70,000 in the seventies to roughly 27,000 (including part time and seasonal workers) today is ready to fill its ranks and coffers through ‘card check.’
The Sacramento Bee reports that the California Assembly passed the ‘card check’ bill on Monday.
The measure, Senate Bill 104, cleared the Assembly by a vote of 51-26 with Republicans opposed. It now goes to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, who has not yet announced whether he will sign it.
Proposed by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, the bill would let farmworkers bargain collectively if a majority of employees submit petition cards to the Agricultural Labor Relations Board.
Not surprisingly the bill was sponsored by the United Farm Workers. If Governor Brown should sign the bill into law, then workers would be stripped of their right to have secret-ballot elections which have helped shield individual workers from the sort of intimidation and reprisals that have been eagerly embraced by aggressive union organizers.
Will the UFW organize the workers who toil for Nancy Pelosi at her family’s Napa Valley vineyard?
May 17, 2011
I doubt it. I'm sure Nancy and her husband will pay well (or use some less savory means) for an exemption.
California should be put on a suicide death watch the way they do in jails
It will drive San Joaquin farmers towards other crops and mechanized production.
No more illegals.
Unionization will kill the illegal alien job market.
Ta ta. Home to Oaxaca
Naw, this will boost small business. Imagine how many Juan’s 10 Minute Union Card shops will pop up.
California Assembly = Incompetence at it’s highest level
Next the Democrats will pass a law allowing unions to randomly pick names out of the phonebook and MAKE them join a union.
“You vill joint und you vill like it!”
Most illegal immigrants don’t actually work in the field for starters,those that do are the ones who can’t afford to pay Union dues.It will just mean they will need people even more desperate then Mexicans to work the fields.
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