A Year Later, New York's First Farm Workers Union Struggles to Secure Its First ContractDocumented
Pindar Vineyard farm workers say management has repeatedly stalled in negotiating a fair contract
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Pindar Vineyard farm workers say management has repeatedly stalled in negotiating a fair contract
A union representing about a dozen farm workers and their supporters protested outside of Pindar Vineyards’s outlet store in Port Jefferson over the weekend. They want to pressure winery owners to negotiate a contract with their union.
Starbucks, newsrooms and farms are some of the places where organizing is beginning to take hold.
Agricultural workers in New York just formed the state’s first farmworker union, but a new law guaranteeing overtime protections and organizing rights has been delayed.
Farmworkers have been historically excluded from labor protections since The New Deal. Here's the story behind New York's first farmworkers union.