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Labor/Employment,
California Supreme Court

Nov. 28, 2017

Farm workers’ union scores twin state high court victories.

In a win for farm laborers, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday that agricultural employers cannot use a defense that a union “abandoned” contract talks for many years as grounds for the employer to avoid a contract imposed by a state agency.

In a win for farm laborers, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday that agricultural employers cannot use a defense that a union “abandoned” contract talks for many years as grounds to avoid a contract imposed by a state agency.

The longstanding rule that a farmworkers’ union is certified until its membership decertifies it still holds, the court said, both during the usual course of negotiations and in a post-negotiation “mandatory me...

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