UFW bill passes CA Senate & moves on to Assembly. Take action NOW! UFW bill passes CA Senate & moves on to Assembly. Take action NOW! If you live outside of CA go to: http://action.ufw.org/sb25nat If you live in CA go to: http://action.ufw.org/sb25 If you live outside of CA go to: http://action.ufw.org/sb25nat If you live in CA go to: http://action.ufw.org/sb25 Farm workers won a key victory last week when SB 25 passed the California state Senate. It now goes to the state Assembly. The bill would close legal loopholes and stop elaborate games growers use to deny their workers union contract protections. It is critical that this bill now pass the Assembly. Assemblymembers Rudy Salas, Isadore Hall and Jose Medina's votes are crucial to make this happen. Can you please send them your message today to let know how important it is to pass SB 25? Here's why SB 25 is needed: • One of California's biggest vegetable growers refused to bargain for a United Farm Workers contract over 32 years after workers voted for the union. They finally won their contract only after a UFW-sponsored law passed in 2002 letting farm workers bring in neutral mediators to hammer out union agreements when growers refuse to negotiate. Since that first union contract expired in 2010, the grower has delayed renegotiating the contract. • During the 1980s, 54 growers employing about 10,000 union members protected by UFW contracts allegedly went out of business and changed corporate identities to deny farm workers representation by the UFW—and this practice continues today. • In March 2012, the UFW asked the state Agricultural Labor Relations Board to order a large tomato grower into binding mediation under the 2002 law. The tomato grower refused to implement the decisions of the mediator and the ALRB so the workers could have a UFW contract. The ALRB says it lacks legal authority to go to court to make the company honor the law. SB 25, by state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) and also sponsored by the UFW, would provide for binding mediation when growers refuse to renegotiate existing union contracts. It would also stop companies from using corporate restructuring to deny farm workers the union representation for which they voted. And it would close a loophole in the 2002 binding mediation law that leaves the state powerless when growers ignore orders to implement union contracts. Please take action today by sending your message of support for SB 25 to these crucial Assemblymembers. If you live outside of CA go to: http://action.ufw.org/sb25nat If you live in CA go to: http://action.ufw.org/sb25 After you sign the pledge, please ask your friends and family to sign too. 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