But it's not the way the UFW says it is. Violators, he said, should be and are handled by state regulators. The UFW has made little progress with Navarro's workers, but it is moving ahead at Coastal Berry, one of the state's largest growers of strawberries. Contract negotiations would begin only if the union were to win a secret-ballot election among workers at Coastal Berry, which employs about 1,500 people at peak season. Such an election will not happen this year.
Some Coastal workers are clearly pleased with the idea of the union.
We are doing fine without them. The workers had just voted in the union.