UFW settles suit with former field organizers

The United Farm Workers union, which represents nearly 10,000 workers, has proposed to pay $1.3 million in back wages, penalties, and legal fees to 24 former field organizers who sued the union in 2013, reports the Los Angeles Times. “The suit alleged that the UFW regularly required” the organizers “to work more than eight hours… » Read More

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