What California vineyard workers want

California, by value the largest producer of agricultural goods in the United States, is in the midst of a staggering agricultural labour shortage which seems only to be getting worse. In 2019, 56% of farms in California said that they were unable to hire the amount of labour they needed; 20% of those surveyed were wine grape growers.

What is responsible for the lack of agricultural labour?

At last count, 92% of the agricultural labour force in California was Latino and nearly 80% was foreign-born. It is not an...