Los Angeles Times Business Columnist Michael Hiltzik has penned a column on two Beverly Hills Billionaires who want to kill a California State Law that protects Farm Workers: L.A.-based Wonderful Company - the world’s largest pistachio and almond grower, the purveyor of Fiji Water, Pom pomegranate juice and Justin wines, and owner of the Teleflora flower service - wants you to know that it’s committed to “sustainable farming and business practices” and sees its Employees as “a guiding force for good.”  The company’s owners, Beverly Hills billionaires Lynda and Stewart Resnick, say their “calling” is “to leave people and the planet better than we found them.”  But here’s another side of the company: Since February, it has been engaged in a ferocious battle with the United Farm Workers (UFW) over the UFW’s campaign to Unionize more than 600 Wonderful Nurseries Workers in the Central Valley.  If it succeeds, California’s legal protections for Farm Workers could be rolled back to conditions that prevailed before César Chavez’s campaigns for Farm Unionization in the 1960s.

To Directly Access This Labor News Column, Go To: Hiltzik: The billionaire Resnicks say they're harmed by a labor law - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

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