A new state bill seeks to find out what we don’t know about the jobs we want to have.
A ground-breaking state law could raise work standards for fast food employees while keeping them safe.
“Hungry at the Table” singles out pay and conditions at grocery giant, whose profits have soared during the pandemic.
Major hotel chains are considering making daily room cleaning an exception rather than the norm.
Without adequate oversight, there is little incentive for employers to protect workers during wildfire season.
Union members say a long-running partnership between Kaiser employees and management is under attack.
Assembly Bill 616 would have made it easier for California farmworkers to vote to unionize by allowing them to fill out and mail ballots as absentees.
Even as retail and hospitality workers see pay hikes, the wealthiest Americans got even bigger raises during the pandemic — widening income inequality even further.
Photojournalist David Bacon documents the harsh lives of farmworkers in the San Joaquin Valley.
Pressure and potential legislation in California could change Amazon’s approach to workforce protection and burnout across the U.S.
The bureaucratic battles over cart permitting have high stakes for Los Angeles’ 10,000 vendors.
Representatives could end what critics say is an outdated, “exploitative and discriminatory” legal framework.
As the state gradually emerges from the pandemic, an economic hangover lingers over the wine industry.
For millions in the Golden State, economic inequality brings a different kind of peril to daily life.
In the poorest state in the nation, a push to cancel federal support for those out of work.
As American wealth gets concentrated among a smaller number of cities and corporations, many communities are fighting to hold on.
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act would likely lead to enormous increases in the number of workers brought to the U.S. by growers.
The crushing defeat of an organizing drive at Amazon points to the formidable legal barriers facing America’s labor movement.
A unionization vote could have far-reaching consequences for Amazon and America’s labor movement.
Los Angeles must develop a food-vending cart that meets its health code — or change the health code, say street vendors and advocates.