Please Help the D’Arrigo Workers Who Never Give Up

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Any objective list of America’s worst employers would have to include D'Arrigo Brothers. We can’t possibly list all the ways D’Arrigo Bros., one of America’s largest and most successful growers, has mistreated its farm workers. It would take too long and make you angry. Since voting for the UFW 30 years ago, D'Arrigo's 1,500 workers have never given up fighting for their rights. With UFW help, they have protested, demonstrated, and even gone on strike. They have challenged the company in court. Slowly but surely, they are winning. They urgently need your help to push on to victory.

Efren Fraide, has worked picking broccoli for D'Arrigo for 25 years.

"We have given our best years to this company and during this whole time, the company, instead of raising our wages, they have cut our wages. For all these years, the company has refused to negotiate a fair contract and bargain in good faith with us.

“In the year 2000, we put charges against them for negotiating in bad faith. In 2005, the Judge found them guilty and ordered them...to pay us loss of wages and benefits from 2000 on and up to date...they appealed his decision...The ALRB agreed with the Judge’s decision.

"On July 27, 2006, again we got together with the company and once again they came to negotiations proposing to freeze our wages for three years more. It is very obvious that this company is not interested in the suffering of its workers...They have always stepped all over us and they are stepping all over the law, too."

Thanks to friends like you, we won the passage of a California law that requires binding mediation when companies like D’Arrigo refuse to negotiate an initial contract with a union. Now we must use that law to get D'Arrigo to negotiate in good faith a contract or have the ALRB impose a contract under the mediation law.

Please help fight for the D’Arrigo workers. Send a donation today of $10, $15, $30, $50, $100 or even $250. D’Arrigo is a huge company, with teams of lawyers. With your help we can get these workers the contract they deserve. Thank you.