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    How California's farm labor shortage made friends of old rivals

    by Geoffrey Mohan, Los Angeles Times Jul 09, 2018 5 minutes

    D'Arrigo Bros. and the United Farm Workers once took more than 25 years to reach a contract, and for many years afterward they communicated mostly through court filings and job actions.

    But the top leafy green grower in California's Salinas Valley and the national union founded by Cesar Chavez just inked a three-year contract amid fanfare and pledges of a new era of cooperation.

    The deal came after the aging patriarchs on both sides - family scion and company President John D'Arrigo and longtime UFW President Arturo Rodriguez - engaged in months of personal diplomacy this year, each seeking to relieve the economic pressures that threaten their viability, including a shrinking farm labor force.

    "Arturo and I, you know, we're getting too old to fight," said D'Arrigo, 60, whose grandfather co-founded the company

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