Posted on 08/13/2025 3:08:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
One of California’s largest agricultural employers plans to close a Central Valley grape nursery by the end of the year after laying off hundreds of employees, including many supportive of a United Farm Workers effort to unionize the workforce.
Wonderful Co., owned by billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick, plans to shut down the majority of the nursery in Wasco, northwest of Bakersfield, and donate the farm to UC Davis, representatives for the company and the university confirmed this week.
The move comes as Wonderful Nurseries remains locked in a battle with the UFW after the union last year petitioned to represent workers growing grapevines, using a new state “card check” law that made it easier for organizers to sign up workers. Company officials said their decision was unrelated to that.
“The decision to wind down Wonderful Nurseries was purely a business decision and in no way, shape or form related to our ongoing litigation with the UFW or the fraud so many farmworkers reported by the union,” Wonderful Co. spokesman Seth Oster said.
In February, Wonderful Nurseries President Rob C. Yraceburu said in an email to employees that the state’s agricultural industry has seen tens of thousands of orchard and vineyard acres abandoned or removed. The table and wine grape industry is in a major downturn, meaning nurseries such as theirs have seen “significantly decreased sales and record losses, with no expectation of a turnaround anytime soon.”
Yet some labor experts and Wonderful employees are questioning the timing of the layoffs, which started just five...
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GOOD! Whatever the hell it takes to SHUT DOWN UNIONS.
Point 2, Directive 10-289?
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Those employees had a good thing going for several years.
Then, a few of the workers got a little too greedy, and everybody suffered a loss.
This family which owns the farm probably has many other properties to keep the money coming in. They won’t suffer too much. Not in the long run.
Bad news: UC Davis will own it which means the Commiefornia taxpayers will incur all the expenses but reap none of the profits (if there are any) and the workers will get Unionized.
I don’t care if we lose CA grapes. I only drink wine from Australia. Nice chardonnay, very well priced. (red wine raises your blood pressure.). Wine manager at my store says there are better chardonnays and I can afford them, but I really love the one i buy. 1 glass at 5 every night and that’s when my cat gets her chicken in gravy. Truly happy hour at our house. Purr, purr.
Am surprised all the Epstein, Epstein, Epstein conspiracy theorists on Free Republic didn’t pick up on this delicious irony and corrupt connection between Gov. Handsome and Wonderful Co.
Going Galt?
Retire to the Gulch?
...who IS John Galt?
F unions. I hope those not in favor of unions took care of the trouble makers.
Lovely post, Veto!
I feel the same way about my bourbon and my dog.
Either way...screw the unions.
..........”Either way...screw the unions”
Or as an old friend used to say, “Why wish them well? Unscrew them.”
Every type of wine I have ever tried tastes like vinegar.
These are the same people that own 80% of the water in California.
UC DAVIS !?
ACADEMIC COMMIES
this is one more blow to agriculture production.
I doubt uc Davis will grow anything there
Spit
Alcohol in general tastes like a very bitter grapefruit.
When you drive down the San Joaquin Valley on Hwy 5, there are miles of destroyed farms and orchards. There are signs: Pelousy Caused Drought. Guv Newscum BRAGS about destroying dams, trying to create a permanent Kalifornia drought.
"Chinatown" wasn't a movie, it was a blueprint.
They tried the union thing with us once years and years ago in the late 80s. The bus arrived and the workers refused to get off unless they got double the pay, my husband told them to stay on the bus and go home.
When they returned the next day to pick the workers told my husband that they beat up the union organizer for causing them to lose a day of work.
I love a happy ending...
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