Members of the United Farm Workers marched hundreds of miles in support of a bill to help them organize. Newsom and the union are at an impasse over provisions in the bill.
It was California Farm Worker Appreciation Day, and the farm laborers and their supporters arriving at the state Capitol were disappointed but not defeated — pretty much summing up 60 years of history for the struggling union that represents them.
“This march is not in vain,” Huerta, now 92 years old, told the crowd as she tried to keep the energy positive. But it looks like it might be. When Huerta began this journey in her 20s, farmworkers had no voice, and certainly no power. They felt invisible, she said, and in the rooms where decisions are made, they were.
Or everyday people like Rachel Ricketts, who pushed her 7-month-old daughter in a stroller while Joaquin, her 8-year-old son, held a poster urging Newsom to sign. Ricketts’ grandfather was a farmworker. She runs a vintage boutique.
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