In California, he said, a similar division of roles would be worked out, with the UFW taking the lead role in organizing. Among families living in Washington’s Yakima Valley, Muehlenkamp said, there is often one person employed in the fields and another working in a packing warehouse-making a joint organizing drive by the two unions a logical strategy.
The task of organizing the 40,000 or more apple pickers working in the fields would go to the UFW. He estimates that as many as 13,000 workers are employed in such jobs.
“It’s an important measure of what we want to do with our new approach in the American labor movement.”īob Muehlenkamp, the Teamsters’ organizing director, said his union recently began its drive to recruit packers and other warehouse workers in Washington’s apple industry.
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