New 28-page complaint from ALRB chief prosecutor details Gerawan’s anti-UFW campaign

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New 28-page complaint from ALRB chief prosecutor details Gerawan’s ‘intensive and ongoing’ drive since 2012 to prevent workers from ‘ever’ winning a union contract

Decertification "leader" Sylvia Lopez’s anti-union role began before starting work at Gerawan in June 2013; complaint details that she missed 75 percent of work over the next four months without penalty in company-spawned bid to get rid of the UFW

In a blistering new 28-page complaint—tantamount to an indictment—the chief prosecutor for the Agricultural Labor Relations Board detailed how the UFW’s renewed attempt to negotiate a union contract with Gerawan Farming “in October 2012 sparked an intensive and ongoing campaign by Gerawan to: undermine the UFW’s status as its employees bargaining representative; to turn it employees against the union; to promote decertification of the UFW; and to prevent the UFW from ever representing its employees under a collective bargaining agreement.”

The consolidated complaint, the fifth since last year, was issued on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, by ALRB General Counsel Sylvia Torres Guillen, who said in a news release that, “No employee in the fields should be coerced by their employers when it comes to deciding whether union representation is best for them. The Agricultural Labor Relations Act ensures that agricultural employees can select a collective bargaining representative free from employer interference.”

The complaint specifies a long chronology of serious, multiple and repeated violations of California farm labor law that have been outlined in the four earlier complaints, three from 2013 and one issued in April 2014.

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