Former Farmworker: WA Card-Check Unionization Plan Bad For Workers, Farmers

Some experts are warning that the new card-check collective bargaining system proposed in Washington state won’t be the good deal for workers that proponents promise.

Alma Torres-Jones, a former farmworker who now operates her own family’s orchard, tells Dillon she fears that both farmers and farmworkers aren’t aware of the quickly-moving proposal, and won’t have time to consider the plan’s true impacts and likely negative consequences for workers as well as farms.