Also. . .

* The California Agricultural Labor Relations Board set a date of Dec. 7 to hear objections filed in an election to represent pickers at the nation’s largest strawberry grower. Workers at Coastal Berry Co. in Oxnard and Watsonville cast ballots in June in the contest pitting the United Farm Workers union against Coastal Berry Farm Workers Committee. The committee won the battle at the ballot box, but the UFW filed 234 objections; the board has dismissed 135 of those.

* Ford Motor Co. named Donald Winkler chairman and chief executive of its Ford Motor Credit Co. financial-services unit, succeeding Philippe Paillart, who resigned last week.