ALRB

INTRODUCTION

In early 2024, the United Farmworkers of America (UFW) sought to be certified as the exclusive bargaining representative for the employees of Wonderful Nurseries, LLC (Wonderful), an agricultural company involved in the grape industry in the Central Valley. The UFW utilized a new statutory procedure contained in Labor Code section 1156.371 in order to seek certification by filing with the Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB or Board) what is referred to as a “Majority Support Petition” (sometimes referred to by the parties as an MSP), demonstrating that a majority of Wonderful’s employees supported unionizing with the UFW as their bargaining representative. Wonderful vigorously opposes this unionization effort. It filed objections in front of the ALRB as part of the statutory procedure under section 1156.37, making a plethora of claims of impropriety by the UFW in its unionization efforts. Wonderful claims to have submitted a large number of declarations to the ALRB disputing whether various workers were misinformed or misled, and contesting whether the workers actually support the UFW acting as their bargaining representative. The UFW, for its part, allegedly…