Despite the long delay to raise resort workers’ wages close to $20 an hour, their 2018 victory inspired labor collaboration driving current strikes.
The lowest income Californians are more likely to have lingering symptoms, and more likely to lose jobs.
All sides must bargain in “good faith,” but U.S. labor laws do not say what that means, and penalties are weak.
The end of pandemic relief programs is returning millions of children to poverty.
A California settlement compels the state’s largest health care provider to spend $150 million on behavioral health services.
Cuts and turnover, even more than pay, make their jobs impossible, they say.
Once known for strong employee-management relations, its workers now say staffing and pay need to rise to attract and retain the staff Kaiser needs.
The bill passed by the California Legislature would have limited benefits to keep state payments manageable.
California requires a minimum of three sick days, the least among 15 states. A bill to raise it to five days is opposed by the business...
Governor could leap past politics and sign unemployment bill just to keep striking workers in an uneven game.
Likely all Los Angeles workers, says a new study of pay and expenses. But the political will is not yet there.
As insurers reject coverage amid soaring anxiety and depression, a bill to help children and teens is quietly killed.
When one conference declined to cancel, a union walkout helped drive other concessions.
Weak labor laws allow the coffee giant to avoid contract talks.
Unionizing is not against the law; but the law is against unionizing.
Low-income working families and people of color continue to be hit hardest.
Outdated 1935 federal labor act makes violations hard to prove, penalties easy to pay.
With employers stalling, unions seek to build public pressure by spotlighting CEO pay and corporate excess.
Health insurance CEOs pocket millions while citizens can’t pay the out-of-pocket.
With consolidation and industry diversification, corporate studio and hotel owners have more money to wait out strikes.