After more than a month of deliberation, a Kern County Superior Court judge has sided with Wonderful Co. and issued a preliminary injunction that will temporarily halt a contentious bargaining process between the agricultural giant and the state's largest farmworker union. In a ruling issued Thursday, Judge Bernard C.
's certification. Under the provisions of the card-check law, the UFW's efforts to bargain with the company on behalf of its nursery workers moved forward, even as Wonderful's appeal of the certification works its way through the 's administrative hearing process, while the lawsuit moved forward in Kern County court. In a statement released Thursday evening, Rob Yraceburu, president of Wonderful Nurseries, said the company was 'gratified' by the court’s decision to pause the certification process until the constitutionality of the card check law can be 'fully and properly considered.