News and Updates
Sarbanand Farms Included in “Dirty Dozen” Employers of 2018
April 26th, 2018 It’s Workers’ Memorial Week and National COSH have released their annual Dirty Dozen report and Sarbanand Farms is Included. Based on information from workers, unions, COSH groups, safety advocates and allies, they have documented stories...
read morePublic records reveal extent of Sarbanand Farms’ significant violations of Agricultural Employment Standards
By Sandy Robson Originally Posted at The Searchlight Review April 23, 2018 In a February 1, 2018 letter sent to Robert Hawk, CEO of Sarbanand Farms, LLC, Deibi Sibrian, Industrial Relations Agent with Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I)...
read moreEast and West Coast Farmworkers Unite for Labor Rights
By Jake Clapp Originally Posted at Rochester City Newspaper In the summer of 2013, migrant farmworkers on a berry farm in Skagit County, Washington, about an hour north of Seattle, began to organize against poor working and housing conditions and for better wages. The...
read moreThe Fruit of Our Labor
By Edgar Franks February 1, 2018 Originally Published in The Progressive In the thick of Donald Trump’s first year as President, the U.S. labor movement scored an improbable victory. The workers are mostly indigenous Mixtec and Triqui immigrants from Mexico, living in...
read moreFUJ Message to Supporters about Berry Boycott
Dear Supporters, As of September 4th, 2016 Familias Unidas por la Justicia called for an end of the Driscoll boycott, and all boycott activities. Out of respect for the collective bargaining process with Sakuma Farms please do not contact past, present or potential...
read moreFood Justice Forum Explores Issues of Migrant Labor
On August 6, 2017, Honesto Silva Ibarra, a farmworker in Sumas, died after exposure to brutal working conditions—inadequate food and water, as well as high temperatures and dangerous levels of air pollution from forest fires. The unnecessary death of this...
read moreFamilias Unidas por la Justicia Testimony to the WA House Labor & Workplace Standards Committee
LEGISLATIVE WORK SESSION OF NOVEMBER 16TH, 2017 WA State House of Representatives Labor and Workplace Standards Committee On November 16, 2017, Familias Unidas por la Justicia President Ramon Torres was able to make a presentation before the Washington State House...
read moreHistoric Union Contract Signed by FUJ and Sakuma Bros. Berry Farm
Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ) members turned out on the evening on June 15th to overwhelmingly ratify the tentative collective bargaining agreement presented by their negotiations committee. After an overview of the contract the Mixteco and Triqui hand...
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read moreFamilias Unidas por la Justicia and Sakuma Bros. Berry Farm Reach Historic Tentative Agreement on a Union Contract
The tentative agreement was reached yesterday June 10, 2017 at 7:00pm. This is a great victory for all our members that harvest berries at Sakuma Farms and we are ready to start the berry season later this month with full collective bargaining rights in place.
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