Commentary
Quoting President Biden, Los Angeles Times California columnist Anita Chabria recently tried to make Assembly Bill 2183, the farm union bill, appear pro-democracy, when it’s actually anti-democracy. The bill is by Assemblyman Mark Stone (D-Monterey Bay).
For votes to unionize agricultural workers, the bill would replace a democratic system of anonymous ballots with a public, card-check system under which workers could be intimidated. According to Stone’s own description of his bill, “AB 2183 would modernize the ALRA [Agricultural Labor Relations Act] to allow farm workers to choose if they want to vote at a physical location, or vote by mailing or dropping off a representation ballot card to the Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) office.”…