Fact-checking the farmworker union debate

Plus surveillance, législative records, lobbyist photographs, and the quote of the week

Farmworker union Familias Unidas Por La Justicia and farm owners packed the Legislature’s hearing rooms last week to testify about SB 6045 and HB 2409, which would give farmworkers more collective bargaining rights. Here’s an Observer fact-check on some claims made during those hearings.

“Striking during harvest would threaten the small window of time fa…