By Michael C. Saqui The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) General Counsel is attempting to bring back the dead by advancing a joint employer standard that hasn’t been used in 30 years. This threatens not only big franchisors like McDonald’s, but also processing plants, coolers and companies that use temp agencies, farm labor contractors, ...
By Robert Shuler We know that agriculture must have water to produce food and fiber. Whether it’s vegetables or livestock, cotton or strawberries, agriculture cannot survive without water. These are obvious statements that all of us in agriculture understand very well. Sadly, the public and many political decision makers don’t understand this fact. Especially these ...
By Russell McGlothlin The enactment of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 (“SGMA”) was a bold first step toward managing California groundwater. SGMA requires local agencies to elect to be “groundwater sustainability agencies” or “GSAs” to develop “groundwater sustainability plans” or “GSPs” for the state’s most at-risk basins. If local…