For the first time, they could qualify as employees and enjoy benefits and rights that have been off-limits for years.
A law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Labor Day faces a referendum driven by corporate franchisors.
Long waits for care, understaffing lead 2,000 workers to give walkout notice.
But where they don’t, millions of workers are stuck at the record-low federal floor.
With the health giant again under scrutiny by California regulators for alleged denial of care, many therapists are leaving for private practice.
When it comes to wages, baseball’s billionaires give stadium workers peanuts.
An interview with Roy Bahat, the renegade venture capitalist who believes in labor unions.
Wildland firefighters have been sounding the alarm on a lack of accessible housing. Is anyone listening?
A store in Anaheim, California becomes the latest to organize amid a national wave of dissent against the java giant.
The view from Lemon Hill, a working-class community where stress and anxiety rule the day.
The organic and vegetarian meal maker is facing a litany of complaints from employees over workplace abuses.
After teetering for weeks at the edge of a strike, Kroger and Albertsons employees approve a new union contract.
L.A. County’s labor federation, spurred by the pandemic, will launch a massive mutual aid initiative to address hunger, housing insecurity and other community needs.
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.