0:08 all right labor unions
0:12 uh the california ag labor relations act
0:14 of 1975 provides farm workers the
0:17 ability to unionize i've already told
0:19 you that previously
0:22 but it required secret ballot elections
0:24 to avoid intimidation
0:26 that was a huge step now you can vote in
0:29 secret before you had to vote out in the
0:32 open which opened you up to retaliation
0:35 by both sides whichever way you
0:38 voted if you voted against the union you
0:40 could be intimidated by the union if you
0:42 voted for the union you could be
0:46 intimidated by the uh the um
0:47 um anti-union
0:49 anti-union uh
0:51 uh people
0:52 people
0:54 card check was which is part of the
0:58 national labor relations act of 1935
1:01 was used to unionize in 1975
1:04 prior to 1975 so card check like its
1:09 name implies is a vote on a card
1:11 with your name
1:13 right out in the open everybody knows
1:14 how you voted
1:17 card check is not secret and therefore
1:19 intimidation is
1:21 not only possible
1:24 it happened a lot
1:26 people would get intimidated
1:29 through fear through overt acts people
1:31 would get beat up
1:34 all kinds of bad things
1:36 have happened over the years with labor
1:41 card check system was approved in
1:44 california legislature but vetoed by
1:46 arnold schwarzenegger
1:49 he said no this card check system
1:51 doesn't make sense he doesn't want to
1:52 bring back
1:56 the potential for intimidation by having
1:59 a card check system
2:02 after jerry brown vetoed card check in 2011
2:04 2011
2:07 he approved card check in another bill
2:10 in october of 2011
2:13 but only as a remedy
2:16 uh if an investigation shows that an
2:19 employer has demonstrated unfair labor practices
2:20 practices intimidation
2:22 intimidation uh
2:23 uh
2:26 coercion that renders unlikely the possibility
2:27 possibility
2:31 of a valid secret
2:33 in other words
2:36 if the secret ballot which is the law of
2:38 the land here in california the secret ballot
2:40 ballot
2:43 appears to have been
2:45 manipulated in some way through
2:48 intimidation or unfair practices if
2:50 there's something went on and
2:54 it doesn't look like that ballot
2:55 was valid
2:57 then card check
3:00 now legally can be
3:03 brought into play so that people who
3:06 want to stand up and say yes union
3:08 no union they can do it but they have to
3:11 do it publicly only if there is some
3:13 sort of
3:15 problem and to my knowledge there have
3:18 been no test cases and we have never had
3:22 card check used since october of 2011
3:25 uh till today i don't think it there has
3:27 been could have slipped under the radar
3:28 that i didn't see but
3:34 fair employment and housing act in
3:36 california provides minimum wage standards
3:38 standards
3:40 rules for overtime pay now yes greater
3:43 than 10 hours per day in agriculture
3:46 is the way it used to be but
3:50 please note that it is now over eight hours
3:51 hours
3:56 as of 2020 that just finished phasing in
4:00 completely from 2016 to 2020 so now it
4:02 officially is eight hours not 10 as it
4:06 says here on the slide unless
4:10 you're in a union that negotiated for
4:12 overtime after 10 hours which is fine if
4:14 you have a union contract this still
4:18 holds true with a lot of union contracts
4:20 meal periods are guaranteed rest periods
4:22 are guaranteed
4:25 and certain provisions for access to
4:27 cool clean fresh water
4:30 bathrooms sanitary facilities
4:33 to wash your hands shade
4:36 during breaks and meals etc
4:38 the equal opportunity employment act of 1972
4:41 1972
4:44 is designed to ensure fair treatment to
4:46 all segments of society
4:50 without regard to race religion color
4:53 national origin or sex
4:54 and you might ask yourself what the heck
4:57 we had the uh
5:00 civil rights act of 1957
5:03 another civil rights act to make
5:06 uh tons of discriminatory practices
5:07 illegal in
5:11 1964 i think it was and here it is eight
5:13 years later we still need to patch
5:16 things up and create stronger rules because
5:22 equal opportunity
5:23 is not
5:25 always the reality uh
5:26 uh fairness
5:28 fairness
5:31 the lack of prejudice
5:34 and bias against people because of who
5:34 they are
5:37 color of their skin
5:42 on the books
5:45 all of the discriminatory practices are illegal
5:46 illegal
5:48 in reality
5:53 it still happens all the time
5:57 so in 1972 it was a shorter list in 1995
5:59 i think this must still be president
6:02 clinton it was amended to have uh 14 grounds
6:03 grounds
6:06 not only physical impairment you're
6:07 you're
6:09 have some sort of disability your
6:11 marital status political beliefs or
6:14 activities your race religion sex
6:16 societal status is a person age role in
6:19 business dealings lawful sexual activity
6:22 physical features pregnancy position or
6:25 past positions held as employment and
6:27 association with any person who was
6:30 identified by reference to any of the 13
6:32 other listed grounds
6:34 trying to catch it all and we still
6:37 can't catch it all
6:38 what if somebody's
6:42 how transgender which is a big topic recently
6:43 recently
6:47 um to which i say give me a break
6:50 we're all human
6:52 you shouldn't be able to discriminate
6:55 for any of these things
6:58 even if it isn't explicitly listed in
6:59 in
7:00 the law
7:02 so that's just the beginning
7:09 in labor law
7:12 but these are the things that jim bogart
7:14 thought were
7:22 in his guest lecture before he retired so
7:23 so
7:28 another module
7:30 and these videos will be right here once
7:31 i'm done
7:33 instructor outline notes on jim bogart
7:37 labor law so this again
7:40 is my own personal outline when i was
7:41 watching him
7:44 deliver his speech now i created the
7:46 powerpoint based on this outline
7:50 so this is not his powerpoint that you
7:52 just saw the only thing that was his was
7:54 the first slide that showed grower
7:56 shipper association and
7:57 and
8:01 that list of i don't know 20 30 different
8:02 different labor
8:03 labor
8:04 and employment related laws
8:06 laws
8:10 but this is there for you to help study
8:18 you know it's just a word document
8:20 um and then you've got a summary paper
8:23 to do on this with two
8:26 powerpoint files so in assignments
8:29 like all of your summaries i want a
8:31 two-page minimum there is some overlap
8:33 but you're going to do it on both the
8:35 powerpoint files the first genera
8:37 generic labor law
8:41 powerpoint plus jim bogart the former
8:49 and that is it
