Many of the state’s largest school districts have contracts that expire June 30. The California Teachers Association is coordinating strategies across 32 districts.
The union and health care provider are split over pension and prep time issues.
Head of the California Immigrant Policy Center said the state’s leaders and people are ready to stand against deportations and nativism.
Preventing price gouging on rents and predatory evictions are looming challenges for public officials.
Chamber of Commerce, Restaurant Association claim the law, which labor unions say is meant to prevent coercion, violates free speech.
Federal funds cover more than 60% of California’s low-income health insurance plan. Losing even part of that money could result in cutbacks on care for kids or state tax hikes.
A new law is meant to help local governments speed up the building and placement of small, portable houses.
A letter signed by a majority of both houses calls on the health care giant to accept proposals from 2,400 striking mental health care workers.
Seventy percent of the state’s residents think kids in the state will be financially worse off than their parents.
Concentration in low-paying industries and lack of education and career training mean Latinas earn 44% of what white men are paid.
A union complaint filed with California regulators says a leaked internal memo shows Kaiser intended to break its own rules and state law, leaving patients without care during the ongoing strike.
A measure seemingly targeting the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has put forth three rent control ballot measures, is on its way to narrowly passing.
The UC system says it is offering healthy raises for nearly 40,000 staffers, but workers say the system is playing a shell game by also raising their health care premiums.
Mythology aside, nearly 2 million undocumented immigrants are the backbone of some industries, and pay billions in taxes for services they will never receive.
The health care provider canceled patient appointments during a 2022 strike. State regulators say they are making sure the company does not break the law during the current strike in Southern California.
Ahead of a ballot measure to add $2 to the hourly minimum wage, studies show fast food jobs increased after the state bumped hourly pay to $20 in that sector.
Prop. 36 creates stiffer penalties for some theft and drug crimes and has overwhelming support, but big retailers do not cite theft as a leading threat, and property crime is the lowest in 50 years.
Following the money reveals the gaming of the state’s initiative process.
Faculty, students, labor groups and the American Civil Liberties Union say the harder line on demonstrations may be discriminatory.
A national nonprofit uses financial and life coaching to teach low-income parents how to move up to living wages and beyond.