Wine Country Gazette ·
Healdsburg: Rodney Strong workers seek Teamsters union
Rafael Malfavon has spent 10 years moving wine through the warehouse at Rodney Strong Vineyards, and he says the pay still leaves him deciding "whether I buy food or new shoes." Now he and what the union calls a majority of the Healdsburg winery's production workers are mounting one of the few large-scale union drives California wine has seen in more than 40 years.