'This is your victory,' UFWPresident Teresa Romero told farmworkers who led the fight for free and fair union elections.
The agreement includes a cap on the number of unionization petitions over the next five years and will allow state regulators to better protect worker confidentiality and safety, Newsom's office said. It would do away with an option for workers to unionize through mail-in voting that is contained in the current language, but keeps a 'card check' election process."
In a video, Romero told those who led and supported the fight for free and fair union elections that"this is your victory." Although Newsom disappointed farmworkers by announcing near the end of their march that he"cannot support an untested mail-in election process," labor organizers around the state—with an assist from Biden and other top Democrats—continued to hold rallies and eventually won important reforms.:"This victory belongs to every farmworker who marched and sacrificed.
The effort to secure free and fair union elections follows"years of dwindling union membership among California farmworkers," thenoted."There are more than 400,000 agricultural workers in the state," but the percentage who are unionized is"statistically zero," according to recent estimates based on data from a 2020 Bureau of Labor Statistics survey.
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