Supreme Court Rules Against Union Organizers Access to California Farms – WSJ

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court struck down a California regulation granting union organizers access to farmworkers on agricultural fields, ruling Wednesday that the 1975 measure violated growers private-property rights.

The decision, by a 6-3 vote along the court s conservative-liberal divide, erases a major victory that Cesar Chavez s farmworker movement achieved in the 1970s, when they argued the nature of agricultural labor made it too difficult to reach workers outside the fields.

The decision reinforces the high court s commitment to private-property rights, which conservative members have viewed as under threat from overreaching regulations intended to protect environmental, recreational and, in this case, labor interests over the objection of property owners.

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