Threats & Intimidation in Union Election
WBAI Radio, 11.09.2005 23:10
Farmworkers Demand Investigation of Grower Threats & Intimidation
in Union Election with a Representative of United Farmworkers of America
Workers voted Sept 1 in a state-conducted secret ballot election on whether to be represented by the United Farm Workers. Citing widespread
threats and intimidation against Giumarra Vineyards Corp.,the United Farm
Workers formally filed objections to the election. Giumarra workers are
traveling to Sacramento to demand the Agricultural Labor Relations Board
investigate the objections and invalidate the election. 171 challenged ballots
would determine the outcome of the election.
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Giumarra Vineyards Corp.,
is the world’s largest table grape grower with 4,000 peak season workers
in Kern and Tulare counties. Two farm workers who died from extreme heat
since last year labored at Giumarra. Workers have many other long-standing
grievances including being forced to labor eight hours a day on their knees
with no umbrellas to protect them against the sun, low pay and speedups.
This is the largest farm worker organizing drive since the 1970s.
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