Amicus briefs came from a host of right-wing legal bodies, including the Mountain States and Southeastern Legal Foundations, the Pelican and Cato institutes, and even the Republican attorneys general of Oklahoma, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas. Hassid, attracted more than the predictable support of the California and American Farm Bureaus.

The suit filed by the PLF, Cedar Point Nursery v. For them, workers didn't even have the right to talk.' 'Growers had it all, and their workers none. 'This was all about power and who had it,' he says. remembers being arrested several times in Santa Maria for taking access. Former United Farm Workers organizer Fred Ross Jr. Growers have always hated the access rule, and many at first refused to obey.

They can talk only for an hour before and after work and during lunch, and can take access for only a total of 120 days during a year. The board requires that the union give notice to the employer before taking access, and that organizers not disrupt work. According to the labor board's handbook, 'The access regulations of the Agricultural Labor Relations Board are meant to insure that farm workers, who often may be contacted only at their work place, have an opportunity to be informed with minimal interruption of working activities.' The access regulation, which took effect after the passage of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act in 1975, allows union organizers to come onto a grower's property in the morning before work to talk with workers.

Read more Capital & Main: Organizing Lettuce Workers, 1976 It fought hard for the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the high court. The foundation is a conservative libertarian group that holds property rights sacred and campaigns against racial equity. Not long before Donald Trump's election in 2016, the Pacific Legal Foundation filed suitagainst California's farmworker access rule in federal court on behalf of two companies - Cedar Point Nursery in Siskiyou County and the Fowler Packing Company in Fresno. This article originally appeared on Capital & Main.

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