The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a property rights challenge to a 45-year-old California labor law that allows union organizers to go on farmland to speak with workers at the start of their day or during a lunch break. Several growers backed by the California Farm Bureau contend the law should be struck down as unconstitutional because it amounts to the government taking private property. Since the 1930s, federal labor laws have protected workers and their right to organize and join a union. A second company, Fowler Packing Co. in Fresno, joined the suit after refusing access to union organizers. “The access regulation is not a permanent physical taking” of property, and therefore does not violate the Constitution, said Judge Richard Paez for the 9th Circuit panel.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 13, 2020 23:17 UTC