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In response to the outcome of Gerawan Farming’s UFW decertification election, Western Growers President and CEO Tom Nassif issued the following statement:
“It took a decision of California’s highest court to force, once and for all, the ALRB (Agriculture Labor Relations Board} to do the right thing and count the votes of Gerawan Farming’s workers. With a resounding vote against the union,
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we now know the reason behind the ALRB’s delay tactics, which lasted nearly five years. The ALRB knew or believed the outcome of the vote was No Union and was attempting to shield the UFW from the humiliation of its irrelevance. It is clear that the UFW does not represent the voice of California’s farm workers, and the results of this election must compel the State of California to stop acting as a surrogate of the UFW and move instead to guarantee justice for all agricultural workers.”
Assemblyman Jim Patterson released the following state- ment after ballots counted by the Agriculture Labor Relations Board revealed that 2,600 Gerawan farmworkers did indeed vote overwhelmingly in 2013 to decertify the UFW as their union.
“If your vote truly is your voice, then today is proof that the voices of thousands of California farmworkers have been si- lenced for five years. The Governor of this state, the members of the Agriculture Labor Relations Board – chosen by him, and the United Farm Workers union, have done everything in their power to stop these votes from being counted.
"For the farmworkers who have continued the fight to have their votes counted after many defeats and disappointments -
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On Tue., Aug. 7, several local medical professionals do-
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I would also like to thank the following WAMS staff for their help and support with the event:
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Gerawan votes are finally counted
Results are a win for Garawan employees and a defeat for the UFW and the ALRB
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justice has finally been served. Their voices have been heard loud and clear.”
And, Dan Gerawan had this to say:
"Our employees have been waiting since November 2013 for their votes to be counted. After a historic struggle, they achieved that right today, in spite of the ef- forts by the UFW and the millions of taxpayer dollars spent by the Agricultural Labor Relations Board to deny them that right.
"The final vote count was 1,098 'No Union,' and 197 for the UFW. The employees overwhelmingly rejected the UFW as their bargaining representative – by a 5 to 1 mar- gin – in spite of the ALRB’s last-minute, election day refusal to count ap- proximately 640 ballots challenged by the UFW.
"A secret ballot election is intended to embody and reflect the workers’ fundamental right to choose their representa- tion. That right is at the heart of what the Agricultural Labor Relations Act is designed to protect and promote. Today’s vote tally leaves no doubt what our employees want. It is a ringing endorsement of their right to choose, and a re- pudiation of concerted, unlawful, and anti-democratic efforts to deny them that right.
"We call on the UFW and the ALRB to respect the choices of farmworkers, to certify the results of the election, and to de- certify the UFW. We call on the Legislature and the Governor to take immediate steps to ensure that the ALRB’s violation of the basic hu- man rights of farmworkers never occurs again in California."
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