A ballot measure to raise pay to $23 an hour could help workers in labor negotiations and boost the local economy.
Despite the long delay to raise resort workers’ wages close to $20 an hour, their 2018 victory inspired labor collaboration driving current strikes.
All sides must bargain in “good faith,” but U.S. labor laws do not say what that means, and penalties are weak.
When one conference declined to cancel, a union walkout helped drive other concessions.
With employers stalling, unions seek to build public pressure by spotlighting CEO pay and corporate excess.
With consolidation and industry diversification, corporate studio and hotel owners have more money to wait out strikes.
On the day Flying Food Group employees in L.A. had planned to picket, they found exit doors wouldn’t open.
A first look at a new law meant to give laid-off hotel and other hospitality workers a shot at jobs lost during the COVID crisis.
She has heard no plan for a federal relief package that might somehow lessen her burden. And, hotel worker Liliana Hernandez says, the whole notion of a vaccine getting the country back on track might be way too late for her and her colleagues. In a state of inequity, relief remains elusive.
The Trump administration’s failure to respond to the health crisis has led to job losses that could take decades to rebuild.
Will Gov. Newsom sign a bill that would require employers to rehire service workers laid off in hotels, airports and event centers?
Mark Kreidler speaks to Keisha Banks, an events server at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont Hotel, about layoffs and Assembly Bill 3216.
Mark Kreidler speaks to Marlene Mendoza, a server of 32 years at Los Angeles International Airport for HMS Host.
A new Los Angeles program distributes farm-fresh food to struggling families.
Today veteran journalist Mark Kreidler begins a new weekly column covering the coronavirus and its social impacts.
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The coronavirus story involves governmental response times and political spin. But economic inequality issues also play a large part.
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The recent media spotlight on sexual harassment in Sacramento and Hollywood has created an opportunity to address the plight of low-wage workers.
While the sexual harassment stories of high-profile women capture headlines in the mainstream media, the everyday abuse suffered by low-wage workers in the service industry has largely gone unnoticed.
The Pew Research Center says that among millennials who head households, more live in poverty than do households led by previous generations — and that national support for unions is largely driven by millennials.
The stories of the more than 800,000 men, women and children working in California’s fields—one-third of the nation’s agricultural work force—are rarely heard. A new book, Chasing the Harvest, presents oral histories of people whose lives have been shaped by California agriculture.