Resnicks’ Amazing shutters farm that the UFW aimed to unionize
Closure of California Grape Nursery Sparks Controversy One of the major farm employers in California is set to shut down its Central Valley Grape Nursery by the year’s end. This move follows the recent layoffs of hundreds of employees, many of whom supported unionizing efforts among farm workers. Wonderful Co., owned by billionaires Stewart and […]
Judge grants Wonderful’s request for temporary halt to UFW unionization effort
After more than a month of deliberation, a Kern County Superior Court judge sided with Wonderful and issued a preliminary injunction temporarily halting the contentious bargaining process between the agricultural giant and the state's largest farmworker union. In his ruling Thursday, Judge Bernard C. Berman said Wonderful's lawsuit against the state's relatively new farmworker organizing […]