Justices strike down California rule allowing unions access to farms

Kern growers applaud high court ruling challenging California labor law

Kern County growers welcomed — and the United Farm Workers union shrugged off — a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that sided with California agriculture businesses in their challenge to a state regulation giving unions access to private property in…

High court backs businesses challenging California labor law

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with California agriculture businesses that objected to a state regulation giving unions access to farm property in order to organize workers.As a result of the ruling, the businesses' attorney said, California will have to modify or abandon the regulation put in place in 1975 after the efforts of labor leader Cesar Chavez.The justices ruled 6-3 along ideological lines for the agriculture businesses. It's ano…

In a narrow ruling, Supreme Court hands farmworkers union a loss

Farmworkers harvest curly mustard in a field on Feb. 10 in Ventura County, Calif. The Supreme Court handed the farmworkers union a loss Wednesday in a ruling about union organizers' access to farm property. (Patrick T. Fallon/)The Supreme Court on Wednesday tightened the leash on union representatives and their ability to organize farmworkers in California and elsewhere. At issue in the case was a California law that allows union organizers to e…

High Court Rejects California Law Letting Unions Enter Private Land to Organize Farmworkers

Farmworkers pick broccoli in the Salinas Valley. Photo by Chris StoneThe U.S. Supreme Court again tightened the reins on organized labor on Wednesday, declaring in a case brought by two fruit companies that a decades-old California regulation that let union organizers enter agricultural properties without an employer’s consent violated constitutional property rights.The 6-3 ruling, with the court’s conservative justices in the majority, overturn…

Supreme Court issues blow to unions in California case about farm property rights

The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision Wednesday ruled that a California law allowing union organizers access to farms to organize workers is unconstitutional because it in effect deprives farm owners of their property rights without just compensation.

High court backs businesses challenging California labor law

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with California agriculture businesses in their challenge to a state regulation that gives unions access to farm property in order t…