Farm Press Staff
September 24, 2021
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Calif. Office of Emergency Services
Farm groups are cheering California Gov. Gavin Newsom's veto of a United Farm Workers-backed bill that would have allowed farmworkers to vote by mail or drop box in union elections.
Western Growers and other groups argued that Assembly Bill 616 by Assemblyman Mark Stone, D-Monterey Bay, would have undermined the secret ballot election process that lies at the heart of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act.