Readers React: L.A. City Council overreaches on Fresno County farm workers
To the editor: As a management consultant, I have worked with Gerawan Farming on and off for almost 30 years. I know its operations well, and I know many of the company’s employees. (“L.A. City Council backs union contract for Fresno farmworkers,” Oct. 22)
The Gerawans are an immigrant family from Lebanon who many years ago started by farming several acres of peaches in Reedley, Calif. Today they are one of the county’s leading growers and processors of stone fruit and table grapes.
The working conditions at Gerawan Farming are excellent, and its wage scales exceed those of the United Farm Workers. It has provided many jobs for other immigrant families.
The Los Angeles City Council has no business interfering with an enterprise in Fresno County. The council’s motive is obviously to gain favor with the UFW, a big campaign contributor.
The council members should spend their efforts and their constituent’s resources on Los Angeles.
Kenneth Cleveland, Malibu
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