

The law will help protect against voter suppression and retaliation, since unionization votes would be kept private from employers, they argue. That has led to heightened fear among farmworkers that seeking unionization could get them fired, or even deported, advocates of the new measure say. Migration from Mexico and Central America in the following decades created a work force comprising primarily undocumented workers. and its supporters said the law was needed because of how farmworker demographics had shifted since the 1970s, when many farmworkers were U.S. Economy on Edge: As recession fears persist, troubles in the state’s most powerful sectors - including tech companies and supply chain logistics - have struggled to keep their footing.

