UFW AIMS PROTEST AT COASTAL BERRY; PICKETING IS SET FOR MONDAY.Byline: David Greenberg The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Daily News Staff Writer Fearing a boycott would result in layoffs of strawberry workers the United Farm Workers The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) is a labor union that evolved from unions founded in 1962 by César Chávez, Philip Vera Cruz, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong. This union changed from a workers' rights organization that helped workers get unemployment insurance to that of is trying to protect, the union will set up a picket line Monday to protest labor practices by a Watsonville, Calif.-based farming company. On Friday the union filed 61 objections with the labor board, taken from sworn declarations A sworn declaration (also called a sworn statement or a statement under penalty of perjury) is a document that recites facts pertinent to a legal proceeding. by more than 200 workers in Watsonville and Oxnard. The UFW UFW United Farm Workers (union) UFW United Factory Warehouse is claiming that Coastal Berry used coercion and violence to form an in-house union and it failed to notify 162 Oxnard workers - many pro-UFW - of the vote. ``That petition was gathered under the auspices of violence and employer participation, which is against the policies of the (state Agricultural Labor Relations Board),'' said Dolores Huerta Dolores C. Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is the co-founder and First Vice President Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (UFW). She was born in the miningtown of Dawson, New Mexico where her father, Juan Fernandez, was a miner, field worker, union activist , the UFW's co-founder and its secretary-treasurer. The union is calling for the labor board to nullify nul·li·fy tr.v. nul·li·fied, nul·li·fy·ing, nul·li·fies 1. To make null; invalidate. 2. To counteract the force or effectiveness of. the election, which formed the in-company union called Coastal Berry Farm Workers Committee. The protest is scheduled to take place at the Mill Valley, Calif., offices of American Capital Strategies, which owns Coastal Berry farms, the largest strawberry grower in a state that produces 1.1 billion to 1.3 billion pounds of the fruit annually. Huerta expressed concern, however, over whether the labor board will side with the UFW when it makes its ruling later this month. She said Antonio Barbosa, executive secretary of the labor board, indicated at a legislative hearing Tuesday that he might not accept the objections because the UFW was ``not a party of interest.'' Barbosa said he did not recall making such a statement, but added, ``That is an issue that is going to have to be researched.'' Besides nullification nullification, in U.S. history, a doctrine expounded by the advocates of extreme states' rights. It held that states have the right to declare null and void any federal law that they deem unconstitutional. of the election, the UFW wants eight men who allegedly assaulted workers on behalf of Coastal Berry management terminated in accordance with the company's policy, Huerta said. She said the UFW does not want to call a boycott because similar actions in the past have resulted in companies shutting down their operations and laying off workers. ``Strawberries have a very short life in the field,'' Huerta said. |
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