SEATTLE — Workers rallied outside fruit processor Columbia Reach Pack in Yakima, Washington, June 11 to celebrate their strike victory. “The most important thing we won is that the company recognized and signed an agreement with the committee” elected by…
YAKIMA, Wash. — Fruit packing plant workers continue their weekslong strikes for higher wages and safer working conditions at Columbia Reach Pack here and at Matson Fruit in Selah, Washington. Strikers at Matson returned to work after the bosses said…
YAKIMA, Wash. — “Good News at Monson,” farmworkers’ union Familias Unidas por la Justicia announced May 22. For the first time since workers began striking at fruit packing plants around Washington’s Yakima County a workers’ committee elected by the strikers…
YAKIMA, Wash. — A walkout that began May 7 by workers at Allan Brothers Inc., a fruit processor in Naches, has become a strike wave running through packing plants in this major fruit growing and processing region. As of May…
