{"id":63904,"date":"2018-09-19T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-gerawan-statement-on-the-results-of-the-november-5-2013-decertification-election\/"},"modified":"2018-09-19T21:56:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T01:56:02","slug":"declaracion-de-gerawan-acerca-de-los-resultados-de-la-eleccion-de-descertificacion-del-5-de-noviembre-de-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/declaracion-de-gerawan-acerca-de-los-resultados-de-la-eleccion-de-descertificacion-del-5-de-noviembre-de-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerawan Statement on the results of the November 5, 2013 decertification election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p>FRESNO,\u00a0California, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 19, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Our employees have been <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/prima.com\/assets\/uploads\/files\/Summary-of-History.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">waiting since <span class=\"xn-chron\">November 2013<\/span><\/a> for their votes to be counted. After <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/H6FhtYHpNHE\" rel=\"nofollow\">a historic struggle<\/a>, they achieved that right today, in spite of the efforts by the UFW and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/35cbbf3f001\/8cdb45d2-514e-4f6e-8781-1562e6bf7ab2.pdf?ver=1502902202000\" rel=\"nofollow\">millions of taxpayer dollars spent by the Agricultural Labor Relations Board<\/a> to deny them that right.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgfd37left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgfd37left\" title=\"Gerawan Farming (PRNewsFoto\/Gerawan Farming)\" style=\"HEIGHT: 267px; WIDTH: 400px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Gerawan Farming (PRNewsFoto\/Gerawan Farming)\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/216284\/gerawan_farming.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gerawan.box.com\/v\/DecertVoteTally9-18-18\" rel=\"nofollow\">final vote count<\/a> was 1,098 &#8220;No Union,&#8221; and 197 for the UFW.\u00a0 The employees overwhelmingly rejected the UFW as their bargaining representative \u2013 by a 5 to 1 margin \u2013 in spite of the ALRB&#8217;s last-minute, election day refusal to count approximately 640 ballots challenged by the UFW.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>A secret ballot election is intended to embody and reflect the workers&#8217; fundamental right to choose their representation. That right is at the heart of what the Agricultural Labor Relations Act is designed to protect and promote. Today&#8217;s vote tally leaves no doubt what our employees want.\u00a0 It is a ringing endorsement of their right to choose, and a repudiation of concerted, unlawful, and anti-democratic efforts to deny them that right.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>We call on the UFW and the ALRB to respect the choices of farmworkers, to certify the results of the election, and to decertify the UFW.\u00a0 We call on the Legislature and the Governor to take immediate steps to ensure that the ALRB&#8217;s violation of the basic human rights of farmworkers never occurs again in <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg41edleft\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg41edleft\" title=\"Gerawan Farming\" style=\"HEIGHT: 266px; WIDTH: 400px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Gerawan Farming\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/216285\/gerawan_farming.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg2bf9left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg2bf9left\" title=\"Gerawan Farming Logo\" style=\"HEIGHT: 128px; WIDTH: 400px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Gerawan Farming Logo\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/157126\/gerawan_farming_logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Photo &#8211;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/216284\/gerawan_farming.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/216284\/gerawan_farming.jpg<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>Photo &#8211;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/216285\/gerawan_farming.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/216285\/gerawan_farming.jpg<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>Logo &#8211;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/157126\/gerawan_farming_logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/157126\/gerawan_farming_logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Gerawan Farming<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p>FRESNO,\u00a0California, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 19, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Our employees have been <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/prima.com\/assets\/uploads\/files\/Summary-of-History.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">waiting since <span class=\"xn-chron\">November 2013<\/span><\/a> for their votes to be counted. After <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/H6FhtYHpNHE\" rel=\"nofollow\">a historic struggle<\/a>, they achieved that right today, in spite of the efforts by the UFW and the &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}