If these employees hadn’t had a contract in ~20 years, and, in effect NEVER had a contract, I don’t understand why they didn’t attempt to decertify the UFW local long ago. It doesn’t make sense. There were PLENTY of years where these employees could have quietly gathered signatures on a decertification petition (before the union aggressively sought to deduct dues from them due to presumably losing 90% of its members).
I’m having trouble figuring out why this farm organized in the first place if the wages, benefits and working conditions were so great.
On the surface, some of the complaints behind the recent barrage of ULPs the union has filed *seem* frivolous, in light of this employer having better wages and benefits than the vast majority of CA farms. It will be interesting to hear which of these charges (if any) actually stick.