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Cali’s wage shame
There’s a dirty little secret in California’s glamorous wine country. At a time when dozens of California wines are selling for more than $100 a bottle, when producers are building multimillion-dollar monuments to their own egos and to impress wine nerds who run up thousand-dollar wine bills at a dinner for four, California farm unions are in danger of losing the battle that would give vineyard workers a decent living wage. (Vineyard workers and grunt labour in California wineries are virtually all Hispanic.) ...
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