How inflation battered California pay raises
Why are so many Californians grumpy about the economy? Ponder a quirky economic statistic called “real wages” – a yardstick comparing the growth in pay vs. the inflation rate. This measurement shows...
View ArticleVTA, union leaders summoned to appear in court next week as transit strike...
SAN JOSE — A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge denied the Valley Transportation Authority’s bid for a temporary restraining order to stop the ongoing strike Monday but granted an order requiring...
View ArticleDonald Trump backs higher pay for wildland firefighters while DOGE cuts...
By MARTHA BELLISLE | ASSOCIATED PRESS Wildland firefighters will keep a four-year-old pay hike under a GOP-led spending bill signed by President Donald Trump, but many worry that mass federal worker...
View ArticleVTA union to vote on new contract proposal Saturday after nearly two weeks of...
SAN JOSE — As the strike of Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority workers reaches the end of its second week, union members are set to vote on a new proposal Saturday following several days of...
View ArticleVTA workers reject latest contract offer, extending strike
SAN JOSE — As the strike of Valley Transportation Authority workers entered its third week Monday, the union voted to reject the agency’s most recent contract offer. The new proposal from VTA, which...
View ArticleCalifornia Lyft, Uber drivers push for $1.3 billion wage settlement
Pasadena rideshare driver Ricardo Valladares says he’s owed more than $680,000 in back pay and damages from rideshare companies Uber and Lyft in a wage theft case dating back nearly a decade....
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VTA bus service to resume Friday, one day after union returns to work
SAN JOSE — Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus service will resume Friday, after striking union workers were ordered to return to their jobs by a county judge. About 1,500 members of...
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As buses return to Santa Clara County streets, riders express gratitude
SAN JOSE — Over the past three weeks, Abel Garcia, 42, walked back and forth across Santa Clara County so much that he had blisters on his feet. “I must have walked about 100 miles during the last...
View ArticleHow Californians spend so much more than fellow Americans
California is a pricey place to live, but the way money is spent is not universal. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed curious consumption data created by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. These stats track...
View ArticleFremont ranks first as the most serene city in US, San Jose comes in at 6
The Bay Area is home to five of the nation’s happiest and low-stress cities, according to a pair of rankings. In the past year, the financial information website WalletHub has twice ranked 182 big...
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