[mobglob-discuss] Fw: Pictsweet victory, Help Gallo workers

[Paul Browning]

Pictsweet victory, Help Gallo workers
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From: United Farm Workers 
To: Paul Browning 
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:23 PM
Subject: Pictsweet victory, Help Gallo workers


                    United Farm Workers 
           
                        Now Pictsweet has settled, tell Gallo of Sonoma to grant its vineyard workers basic health care benefits! 


                        Farm workers at Pictsweet Mushroom Farm in Ventura, Calif. have won their 17-year battle for a United Farm Workers union contract. It is the first time California farm workers have benefited from a landmark 2002 state law providing for binding mediation when growers drag out negotiations. The UFW and the Pictsweet workers express their gratitude to all who helped them over the year with their support both on- and off-line. 


                        On Feb. 13, the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board adopted a report from a state mediator deciding the terms of a union contract for Pictsweet mushroom workers who have labored without a union contract since 1987. Pictsweet officials decided not to appeal the decision. 


                        "How fitting that Pictsweet mushroom workers are the first California farm workers to benefit from the historic binding mediation law that allowed them to end their 17-year nonviolent fight for a union contract," declared UFW President Arturo Rodriguez as he officially called off the union's more than three-year long boycott of Pictsweet mushrooms. 


                        One of the benefits Pictsweet mushroom workers won is complete family health care benefits paid for by the company. 


                        Now that Pictsweet has settled, urge Matt and Gina Gallo and Gallo of Sonoma to stop denying health coverage to the 75% of their farm workers supplied by farm labor contractors. All Gallo of Sonoma farm workers deserve health benefits through their UFW union contract.  


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            Los Angeles Times - February 18, 2002 - Pictsweet Workers Win Contract: A new state law helps resolve the dispute at the Ventura mushroom farm, where crews had labored for 17 years without a union pact. 


            La Opinion - Miercoles, 18 de febrero de 2004 - Fin a pugna sindical de 17 anos: Acuerdo entre trabajadores agricolas y la compania Pictsweet 


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