Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, and shall also have the right to refrain from any or all of such activities except to the extent that such right may be affected by an agreement requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of continued employment as authorized in subdivision (c) of Section 1153.
Cal. Lab. Code § 1152
Rights of Agricultural Employees
Known as the Alatorre-Zenovich-Dunlap-Berman Agricultural Labor Relations Act
The act spans §§ 1140–1166 (77 sections).
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case 21 Cal. 3d 551 - Belridge Farms v. Agricultural Labor Relations Board (1978)
Most recently applied in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid (June 2021)
Added by Stats. 1975, 3rd Ex
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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