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UPDATE – Siblings, I wanted to give you some important information and clarification for tomorrow’s rally and march in support of our Sibs at UFW. First of all, this is not a protest against the French Laundry! Sometimes you have to take advantage of a moment in time to make changes for a lifetime, and the spotlight of the Governors moment is perhaps the only way our Siblings can get an audience. And the owner realizes this is not an attack on his business or why would he have brought the picketing workers his famous cookies?

The organizers of the rally and march have been working with the Sheriff and Mayor to ensure that everyone participating in the event will be as safe as possible and the community impacts kept to a minimum. So they have decided to move up the time to

1 pm to accommodate a walk in support of Alzheimer’s that will be using the same route which will allow those supporters to be as safe as possible. They are asking that participants of the rally arrive as close to 1 pm as possible to avoid confusion.

Organizers and the Sheriff would like to encourage everyone to park at the Church a block away from the rally and has graciously agreed to allow us to use their parking lot to accommodate our members and lessen the impact to local residence and business.

Parking at Yountville Seventh Day Adventist Church

19210 Finnell Rd

Yountville Ca.

Be safe and have a wonderful weekend. Hope to see you tomorrow.

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Siblings, as if you need a reason to visit the beautiful Napa Valley, we have a critical one for visiting the French Laundry in Yountville this Saturday at noon. Our Siblings at the United Farm Workers are marching to the Laundry in Yountville, to protest the Governor’s veto of their bill which would have made it easier to vote to organize. Kind of ironic, isn’t it? Our members worked their butts off for the past four months urging their Sisters and Brothers to turn in the vote by mail ballots sent to their homes, which made it easier to vote to keep the Governor in office, much to chagrin of big business and the far right, only to have him veto legislation that would allow working families the same right.

So join me and our Labor Siblings at the French Laundry this Saturday at high noon to show Gavin that we are behind the essential workers who came to his rescue during the pandemic!

Here is a message from UHW and more information on the bill:

To our Sisters and Brothers,

UFW President Teresa Romero is on the march and asked that I share this with you. Farm workers are marching to the French Laundry to protest Governor Newsom’s veto of our bill that would have made it easier to vote in union elections. He didn’t meet with us, or you when we requested meetings in June and July. Maybe he will be at the French Laundry Restaurant. We welcome your members and leaders to join us at the French Laundry Restaurant, 6640 Washington St. Yountville Ca. in the Napa Valley at 12 noon Saturday. We will then march the 5 1/2 miles to Newsom’s Plump Jack Winery.