"The employer, the company it always respects us like fieldworkers, like humans," said Sylvia Lopez, a farmworker. "They have our benefits, they have discounts, we have bonus. We have everything; it's perfect."
The farmworkers are protesting because last November they took a vote to decertify their contract with the UFW. The ballots were handed off to the ALRB, which has yet to count them.
"All they want is their votes counted, and they want Governor Jerry Brown -- who established the ALRB - to just simply count their votes. That's all they want," said Jesse Rojas, a farmworker rights activist.
An attorney with the ALRB says they can't count those votes yet, saying they believe Gerawan Farming coerced and paid the field workers into the decertification.
"It's not as simple as counting the ballots; we cannot count the ballots until the evidence is heard at a hearing before a judge. And after that hearing the board -- the ARLB -- will decide whether the election stands," said Arcelia Hurtado, attorney for the ALRB.
A judge in Fresno will hear this issue on September 29. He'll decide whether Gerawan Farming violated the law or if the farmworkers' decertification vote will count.