Joshua Solomon reports in the Times Union that workers at least five upstate New York farms have voted to join the United Farm Workers union, but the farms are trying to stop them. The New York Farm Bureau and owners at the farms where the unions have formed say temporary workers with H-2A visas cannot organize or bargain collectively. Now New York’s Public Employment Relations Board will decide, using the 2019 changes to the state’s farm labor laws as a partial guide. Their decision, which will affect nearly 10,000 temporary visa workers, may be appealed to the courts. The Legal Aid Society, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a brief with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board saying, “This could carry the effect of introducing a subclass of workers subjected to diminished working standards and would lead to the depreciation of market wages for agricultural workers across the board, the exact outcome the H-2A regulations attempt to avoid." Read more about this story in the Times Union.