While we usually focus on local news in our updates, these two victories for farmworkers in Washington and California are highly significant.
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In Washington, three years of organizing have led to a historic victory for workers at Sakuma Brothers Farms. The campaign included a boycott of Driscoll’s berries and several actions in the Portland area. Last week, workers voted overwhelmingly (192-55) to join a union, and are demanding a contract guaranteeing a $15 minimum wage and sick leave.
Meanwhile, in California, farmworkers are finally on track to receive the same overtime pay that workers in other industries receive: time and a half for more than eight hours in a day or 40 hours in a week. Farmworkers are still unfairly excluded from most of the rights enshrined by the FLSA, but this bill signed into law last week represents a major victory.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article101400142.html