Conservative Majority Rewrites the Fifth Amendment to Bar Union Organizers from Farms
Sitting in their air-conditioned offices with stewards who serve coffee and tea on request, a majority of our Supreme Court justices have come to an awful decision. They ordered an essential class of workers into slave-like isolation—unseen, unheard and unprotected—as they toil in scorching heat harvesting crops.
The justices, exploiting a single incident, turned back the clock on farmworker rights nearly a half-century.
In an under-reported 6-3 decision, the justices drop-kicked the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975 into the trash bin. That California law gave farmworkers access to labor organizers. The court decision assures farm owners that they once again reign over their employees like plantation owners in the antebellum South, just without bullwhips.
“It seems like a return to indentured servitude,” Rev. Richard Witt, executive director of the Rural and Migrant Ministry in New York State, said after the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 23 decision in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid.
https://www.dcreport.org/2021/07/17/a-supreme-court-ruling-thats-right-out-of-the-19th-century/
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Thank you, Delores Huerta 🍃 Cesar Chavez
'1973 boycott of grapes led to the passage of the 1975 California Agricultural Labor Relations Act'
...She (Huerta) built upon that success and led the table grape boycott efforts of the late 1960s that led to a collective bargaining agreement in 1970. The 1973 boycott of grapes led to the passage of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975.
https://aflcio.org/2019/3/21/womens-history-month-profiles-dolores-huerta
Delores Huerta led the activistsim & Built It All Up,
Susan Sarandon led the activism to "Burn It All Down"
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A Pitiful Embarassment of Priviledge helped bring this disastetous ruling:
Here's Sarandon talking to Delores Huerta like she talks to her maids.
Supreme Court mattered..you fking gullible idiots