You get a knock at the door. A union organizer demands you sign a card, to unionize your company. You inform them, this is not what you want. Then you are informed everyone will know you hate the union and your fellow workers. You are told storing of being isolated, tires slash (“we would never do that”) and promotions will end. You bowling buddies will no longer talk to you. You cave and sing—then you find out the union owns your paycheck, you work when the union allows you to work. You can be on strike for days and weeks, because the union will not allow you to work. That is what the “card system” is about.
“Last year the ALRB announced that UFW submitted 327 authorization cards for employees at the Wasco facility. With Wonderful employing around 600 people there, UFW had a majority.
- But around 150 Wonderful employees came out and told the ALRB that they did not understand that the cards they were signing at the time were to unionize. They also accused UFW of using $600 in federal relief to fraudulently bait them into signing the cards.
The big picture: The group of Wonderful employees have joined a federal lawsuit filed by Wonderful Nurseries against the ALRB to challenge rules that have led to UFW becoming the monopoly bargaining unit on behalf of the employees.”
No election. Fraud in getting you to sing. That is how the modern union in California operates—with the support of the State government. Hopefully the Trump Labor Department will indict these unions and union leaders. Close down corruption by the unions.
Employees want to join Wonderful’s lawsuit challenging Calif.’s union-friendly Ag law
United Farm Workers submitted cards to the state last year for employees at Wonderful Nurseries, becoming the monopoly bargaining power.
by Daniel Gligich, The Sun, 2/5/25 https://sjvsun.com/ag/employees-want-to-join-wonderfuls-lawsuit-challenging-calif-s-union-friendly-ag-law/
Employees at Wonderful Nurseries in Wasco are hoping to intervene in a federal lawsuit to fight against a California law that they say would force them under United Farm Workers.
A group of 20 employees of the company’s Wasco facility filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit after UFW conducted a card check unionization campaign last year.
Driving the news: In 2022, the California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2183, known as the card check law, which allows farmworkers to unionize by signing cards-offsite rather than via state-supervised elections.
- Unions have the power to not notify employers of their actions due to the law.
- Once enough authorization cards have been signed, unions are able to file petitions with the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) and the employer.
Flashback: Last year the ALRB announced that UFW submitted 327 authorization cards for employees at the Wasco facility. With Wonderful employing around 600 people there, UFW had a majority.
- But around 150 Wonderful employees came out and told the ALRB that they did not understand that the cards they were signing at the time were to unionize. They also accused UFW of using $600 in federal relief to fraudulently bait them into signing the cards.
The big picture: The group of Wonderful employees have joined a federal lawsuit filed by Wonderful Nurseries against the ALRB to challenge rules that have led to UFW becoming the monopoly bargaining unit on behalf of the employees.
- Wonderful claims in the lawsuit that UFW agents fraudulently obtained the authorization cards from employees.
- Further, the group of 20 employees also filed a proposed intervenors’ complaint regarding rights they say were violated by the ALRB.
What they’re saying: [T]he Employees seek this Court’s immediate intervention to protect their fundamental liberty interests, especially their freedom of association between and amongst themselves, and with their employer, and their rights to be free from State-compelled monopoly representation by a labor organization not legitimately chosen by a majority of employees, and from State-mandated payment of union dues or fees,” the lawsuit reads.
- Wonderful Nurseries employee Claudia Chavez said in a statement that UFW officials deceived the employees in order to gain power.
- “Instead of just letting us vote in secret on whether we want a union, they went around lying and threatening to get cards and now are cracking down on anyone who speaks out against the union,” Chavez said.
