Hundreds of CA Farm Workers Walk Off Job to Protest Union Grab

Hundreds of CA Farm Workers Walk Off Job to Protest Union Grab

by Ben Shapiro 30 Sep 2013

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/30/Hundreds-farm-workers-protest-union

In Fresno County, California, some hundreds of workers have walked away from their jobs at Gerawan Farming in protest at the United Farm Workers, a union that the workers have been forced to join by the state of California. The union has attempted to seize some three percent of each worker’s paycheck based on a union vote two decades ago. The union has been completely inactive at Gerawan Farming since it was established. Workers at Gerawan make $10 per hour and receive health benefits. That is significantly higher than industry standard, and the union simply wants employee cash based on negotiations that never involved the union. “They’re not asking us if we want it or not, they’re forcing us to have a union and we don’t want that,” said Silvia Lopez, one of the employees. “We have a right to vote to choose.”

United Farm Workers

Arturo S. Rodriguez is the president for the United Farm Workers, and a leadership council member for Change to Win.

Note: Eliseo Medina is a leadership council member for Change to Win, and the secretary-treasurer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Tom Woodruff is a leadership council member for Change to Win, and the EVP for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Stephen Lerner was an organizer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and an organizer for the United Farm Workers.

Anna Burger was the chair for Change to Win, the secretary-treasurer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and a director at the Economic Policy Institute.

Mary Kay Henry is a leadership council member for Change to Win, the president for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and a director at the Economic Policy Institute.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Economic Policy Institute, People for the American Way, and the Center for American Progress.

George Soros is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was a supporter for the Center for American Progress.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Economic Policy Institute, the Center for American Progress, the Alliance for Justice, and the American Constitution Society.

Dolores Huerta is a director at People for the American Way, was a 2012 elector (CA) for the Electoral College, and a co-founder for the United Farm Workers.

Melody C. Barnes was the EVP for the Center for American Progress, the domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama administration, a principal for the Raben Group, and is Barack Obama’s golf partner.

Robert Raben is the president for the Raben Group, a director at the Alliance for Justice, was a director at the American Constitution Society, and an assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Raben Group was the lobby firm for Change to Win, the Morehouse School of Medicine, and is the lobby firm for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.

Arturo S. Rodriguez is a leadership council member for Change to Win, and the president for the United Farm Workers.

Janet Reno is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society, and was the attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Eric H. Holder Jr. was a board member for the American Constitution Society, an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, is a trustee at the Morehouse School of Medicine, and the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration.