So I took a job at a midwestern vineyard this past winter as a marketing and social media coordinator. This is a unique workplace that has a tasting room staff, marketing/event team, and vineyard labor crew all on-site.
Whenever the time comes for wine bottling or grape harvest, the management sends out emails expecting EVERYONE to be on hand to help. Today, me and all the rest of the marketing team have worked 4+ hours in scorching heat harvesting grapes along with the tasting room staff and vineyard crew.
My question is, do I have any sort of agency or negotiating power regarding this physical labor? It's a small family-owned business and the culture revolves around you just being okay with doing this kind of labor occasionally. It's definitely not what I took the job to do, and I am interested in knowing if what they are doing is legal/if there are any actions I can take.