Wonderful Co. Challenges California Farmworker Unionization Law in Court
The agricultural giant seeks to halt the state's card-check system, arguing it undermines employer rights and due process.
- Wonderful Co. has filed a lawsuit against California's Agricultural Labor Relations Board to stop the enforcement of a new unionization law.
- The law allows farmworkers to unionize by signing authorization cards without a secret ballot, which Wonderful claims is unconstitutional.
- The company faces a June 3 deadline to reach a collective bargaining agreement with the newly certified union at its nurseries.
- The United Farm Workers, which recently unionized Wonderful's nursery workers, argues the company's lawsuit is an attempt to disempower workers.
- The case could potentially escalate to the U.S. Supreme Court due to its constitutional implications.