[Southeastern PA is one of the great mushroom growing capitals. Most mushroom farms in the region are still moderately-sized, family owned and/or operated business. Started and staffed by Italian immigrants many decades ago, now they are largely staffed by Spanish-speaking immigrants and their decendants.]
If find it hard to believe that a group of Mexican mushroom farm workers would reject unionization without some negative campaigning from ownership and/or management:
Employees of Cardile Bros. Mushroom Packaging voted Friday, 81-59, against the proposal.Eight members of the Workers Committee of Cardile Mushrooms said they planned to appeal to the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, accusing supervisors at the Chester County plant of interfering with the election by campaigning against unionization.
At the Avondale office of the Kaolin Workers Union, the workers said through a Spanish-language interpreter that they had sought better working and living conditions, higher wages, and benefits including health care and paid holidays and vacations.
The Kaolin Workers Union, the bargaining group at Kaolin Mushroom Farm, is the only union of mushroom workers in the state.
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