California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation as part of a rare agreement to allow farmworkers to unionize under a process known as “card-check” but not through mail-in ballots.The endorsement comes as Biden is set to visit Michigan on Tuesday to walk the picket line in support of United Auto Workers strikers.
Biden, however, was criticized when he signed a bill last December to block a railroad strike and forced workers to accept agreements that many of them. “It was tough for me,” Biden said at a White House signing ceremony last year, adding that the bill was necessary to avoid a work stoppage ahead of the Christmas holiday.
Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Biden’s 2024 campaign manager, said in a statement that Biden “is a real fighter for workers, for Latinos, and for every human’s dignity.” Cesar Chavez — who is Chavez Rodriguez’s grandfather — and co-organizer Dolores Huerta founded the National Farm Workers Assn., which in 1966