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‘How can we survive?’: Labor talks worry deaf-school teachers in Fremont
FREMONT — High school teacher Ty Kovacs flipped through photo boards on a recent morning at the campus library at the California School for the Deaf in Fremont, stopping and pointing at a picture taken...
View ArticleAmerican workers want almost $79,000 salary to start a new job
Alex Tanzi | (TNS) Bloomberg News The wage floor for American workers climbed to a record high close to $79,000, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey released Monday that also found...
View ArticleUPS workers approve $30 billion labor contract lifting wages
By Thomas Black and Ian Kullgren | Bloomberg United Parcel Service Inc.’s union workers ratified a new five-year labor agreement delivering substantial wage increases, concluding a tense period of...
View ArticleHow wide is California’s wage gap? New data shows who the top earners are
Despite increasing efforts to close California’s wage gap, women continue to make up the majority of low-wage workers in the Golden State, according to new data from the California Civil Rights...
View ArticleHappy Labor Day, California! You’re ranked best place to be a worker
”Survey says” looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of artful interpretation and data. Buzz: As we celebrate Labor Day,...
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California religious leaders march with striking writers, actors outside...
Southern California religious leaders held a rally and prayer service outside Warner Bros. studios in Burbank on Thursday, Sept. 7 in a show of support for striking Hollywood writers and actors. The...
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Fast-food companies pull California referendum, agree to $20 minimum wage
Fast-food companies that spent millions of dollars to defeat a worker-protections law agreed over the weekend to pull their referendum from the November 2024 ballot in a move that will give employees a...
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$10 million in service cuts could soon come to San Jose, mayor warns
A fierce San Jose City Hall debate this summer between business and labor interests that resulted in wage increases for thousands of municipal workers and avoided a major strike is now raising concerns...
View ArticleStates and cities eye stronger protections for gig economy workers
Caitlin Dewey | (TNS) Stateline.org Joshua Wood remembers days during the COVID-19 lockdown when New York City’s streets were practically empty, save for workers like him. That experience convinced the...
View ArticleCalifornia dialysis workers to go on strike over allegedly unfair labor...
More than 500 dialysis workers across California are expected to go on strike this week over allegedly unfair labor practices at Satellite Healthcare and Fresenius Kidney Care clinics. Ninety-nine...
View ArticleScreenwriters wait to learn terms of deal with Hollywood studios to end...
By ANDREW DALTON (AP Entertainment Writer) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Screenwriters waited Monday to learn what their five-month strike won and prepared for a possible return to work after their union reached...
View ArticleGov. Newsom signs fast-food minimum wage bill
By Adam Beam | Associated Press SACRAMENTO — California fast food workers will be paid at least $20 per hour next year under a new law signed Thursday by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. When it takes...
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In LA, Gov. Newsom signs bill boosting fast-food worker wages, conditions
LOS ANGELES – Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday, Sept. 28, signed long-sought legislation that gives fast-food workers a raise to $20 per hour while creating a statewide panel to develop baseline labor...
View ArticleCal State student workers get OK to move forward with union vote
By Helena San Roque | CalMatters California State University student workers are one step closer to unionizing after announcing Wednesday, Oct. 4 that the California Public Employment Relations Board...
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Chipotle says it may need to tick its food prices up to pay California wages
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner | CNN New York — Chipotle, which just announced price hikes, said it will likely charge even more at its California restaurants, blaming a new law that raises minimum wages...
View ArticleHi Felicia in Oakland owes more than $100,000 to former workers, says city
The owner of Oakland’s once-buzzy Hi Felicia has gone from Michelin aspirations last year to shutting down the restaurant in May and now, as of this week, having the business owe more than $100,000 to...
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Wage theft of more than $400,000 from Oakland hotel workers is largest claim...
OAKLAND — The results of a three-year city investigation unveiled on Friday revealed that 128 hotel workers were collectively underpaid $404,491 for nearly a year’s worth of paychecks — the largest...
View ArticleUAW reaches deal with General Motors that ends strikes against Detroit...
By TOM KRISHER (Associated Press) DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers announced Monday that it reached a tentative deal with General Motors, capping a whirlwind few days in which GM, Ford and...
View ArticleLofgren, Padilla introduce bill to increase overtime pay cap for wildland...
SANTA CRUZ — California’s 2023 wildfire season might have been less drastic overall than previous years, but that does not mean the risk of wildfires has gone away. Every summer, federal firefighters...
View ArticleCal State University workers call for strike Nov. 14
Skilled trades workers at 22 Cal State University campuses plan to hold an unfair labor practice strike Tuesday, Nov. 14, claiming their wages fall far below that of UC employees who do the same work....
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