Gerawan Farming v. Agricultural Labor Rel. Bd.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Gerawan Farming Gerawan is a family owned farming business that has been in operation since 1938. Gerawan grows, harvests and packs stone fruit and table grapes on about 12,000 acres of farmland located in Fresno and Madera Counties, employing several thousand direct-hire workers and farm labor contractor employees.3 As was the case in the proceedings below, Gerawan’s petition for review presents a description of its operations and business model, presumably because of its concern that

Gerawan makes many of the same arguments in its related appeal, Gerawan Farming, Inc. v. ALRB, case No. F068676, which we have consolidated herewith for purposes of this opinion. The appeal in case No. F068676 is from the superior court’s denial of a petition for writ of mandate by which Gerawan sought to set aside the Board’s order directing the parties to the MMC process. We discuss case No. F068676 herein following our discussion of the issues raised in the petition for review (i.e., case No. F068526). In a brief filed with the Board, Gerawan estimated that in 2012 it employed approximately 5,100 direct-hire workers, plus an additional 6,300 farm…