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CA Congressmen Urge Gov. Newsom to Protect Wildfire Prevention Goat Herds

August 5, 2026 6:00 amAugust 5, 2026 6:01 am

Mid-July, the Globe reported that a business-killing labor bill in the California Legislature is coming for the state’s goat herders. As hard as that is to believe, the back story is important: After many failed attempts to unionize more agricultural...

California Labor and Democrats Driving Wildfire Reducing Goat Herders Out of Business

July 14, 2026 6:30 amJuly 14, 2026 6:31 am

After many failed attempts to unionize more agricultural workers in California, Gov. Jerry Brown instead signed into law Assembly Bill 1066 in 2016 by then-Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), and sponsored by the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union, to require...

Gubernatorial Rivals Agree: California Got This Farmworker Law Wrong

April 2, 2026 6:30 amApril 2, 2026 12:54 pm

Political agreement is rare. What happened this week at Fresno State demands attention. On April 1, 2026, Republican and Democratic candidates for governor shared the stage and acknowledged a hard truth: California’s elected leaders got it wrong. The Legislature and...

The ‘Dirty Dozen’ Gets It Wrong About California Produce

January 27, 2026 4:43 pmJanuary 27, 2026 4:43 pm

Every year, headlines warn shoppers about the so-called “Dirty Dozen,” a list that suggests common fruits and vegetables are coated in dangerous chemicals. Those stories generate fear, but they consistently ignore the facts. In California, the science tells a very...

Gov. Newsom Signs Bill to Eliminate Vote-by-Mail Elections and Secret Ballots for Farm Workers

May 16, 2023 7:26 amJune 13, 2025 7:12 am

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 113 authored by the Committee on Budget, into law Monday to eliminate vote-by-mail in elections by farm workers for union certification. This will usher in a “card check” system in which United Farm Workers labor...

New Overtime Law for Agriculture Workers Was Never About the Workers

January 9, 2023 8:10 amJanuary 10, 2023 3:42 pm

After many failed attempts to unionize more agricultural workers in California, Gov. Jerry Brown instead signed into law Assembly Bill 1066 in 2016 by then-Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), to require overtime pay of time-and-a-half for farm employees working more than eight...

UFW Labor Union Trying to Force Unionization on All Calif. Farm Workers

August 30, 2022 8:14 am

It’s deja-vu all over again. Assembly Bill 2183 authored by Assemblyman Mark Stone (D-Monterey Bay) and sponsored by the United Farm Workers to allow farmworkers to vote by mail in union elections, will go to Gov. Gavin Newsom a year after he...