Rather than recognize their workers choice to unionize the growers banded together to sue the state and stop the law. They target the fact that many workers who want to unionize are H2A workers. They want to overturn the whole law and strip ALL NY farm workers of their rights.
Link for the interested: jacobin.com/2024/02/new-....
A lawsuit filed by New York growers challenges the right of farmworkers on H-2A visas to unionize. Win or lose, the lawsuit is posing an obstacle to the state’s farmworkers, who only won the right to ...
The worst part is this cynical grower-backed strategy could work. An injunction was issued, so new organizing campaigns are stuck. Contract negotiations froze. There is no motion on ULP claims to protect workers from retaliation. Every day of this causes irreparable harm.
