In September 2002, Governor Gray Davis signed the first major amendments to the 1975 Agri-cultural Labor Relations Act in 27 years. Under these amendments, if a farm employer and certified union are unable to negotiate a first collective bargaining agree-ment within 6 months, a mediator can impose an agreement. The number of contracts in California agriculture has declined precipitously since the mid-1980s, and we are skeptical that mandatory mediation will sharply increase the number of workers employed on farms under collective bargaining agreements.

AgJOBS: New Solution or New Problem?

Urban Farmers: A Profile of the California Nursery and Floral Industry.

ARE Faculty Profile: Maximilian Auffhammer

Making Room for the Environment in California Water Policy: Ten Years of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act.

Mandatory Mediation for Farmworkers: A New Era in Farm Labor?; California Horticulture: Current Trade and Policy Issues; Do Polluters Head Overseas? Testing the Pollution Haven Hypothesis.