How much does an Uber driver make? I drove for Uber to find out
By Tommy Tindall | NerdWallet Is driving for Uber worth the money? I put this side hustle to the test and nervously drove strangers around northern Maryland for a couple days to find out. Here’s what I...
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California lawmakers want to ban anti-union meetings at work
By Levi Sumagaysay | CalMatters On the final day of their session, California lawmakers sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill banning employers from forcing workers to sit through anti-union meetings — the...
View ArticleGilroy moves forward with over 50% raise for mayor and city council
Come January, Gilroy’s mayor and city councilmembers could see a more than 50% raise in their salaries. Gilroy City Council’s vote Monday to increase their pay is part of a growing trend throughout the...
View ArticleFremont exploring a 2% raise for all cops
FREMONT — The Fremont City Council is exploring giving a 2% retention raise to police officers as a handful leave the city every year. A vote to consider the pay bumps passed with little upfront...
View ArticleStudy: Americans’ pay hasn’t fully recovered from inflation. Will it ever?
By Sarah Foster, Bankrate.com For 13 years, the 3% annual salary boost that Ricardo M. could count on every October felt like a beacon of stability and a nod that his loyalty as a plumbing supply...
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Antioch: Georgia-Pacific union workers on strike for second day over pay...
ANTIOCH — More than 100 union workers at the Georgia-Pacific wallboard plant here walked off the job in protest this week, frustrated over their wage and contract negotiations. A day after staging a...
View ArticleEast Bay Georgia-Pacific union workers vow to stay on strike until a fair...
ANTIOCH — Georgia-Pacific gypsum plant union workers on strike for a third day Wednesday said they would not budge until their members agreed to a fair contract, despite management welcoming workers...
View ArticleAmazon boosts warehouse worker pay by $1.50 to $22 hourly
By Matt Day | Bloomberg Amazon.com is raising the pay of its hourly warehouse workers by at least $1.50 an hour and adding Prime memberships to their benefits. The raises will take effect this month...
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Walnut Creek’s police are the highest paid city employees. Their unions just...
Union police officers in Walnut Creek have seen a 4% raise each year in their paychecks since the summer of 2021 — not long after activists began pushing to defund police in cities across the U.S....
View ArticleOpinion: Minimum wage hikes are driving surge in youth unemployment
Since mid-2023, California’s labor market has grown by roughly 20,000 jobs per month. Despite this, the state’s unemployment rate remains above 5%, seasonally adjusted, one of the highest rates in the...
View ArticleLetters: Gilroy mayor | Football safety | COVID lies | Kidney donors |...
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Blankley’s record of success deserves vote Marie Blankley’s achievements as Gilroy mayor are too numerous to list here...
View ArticleAntioch: Georgia-Pacific claims inaccurate information being put out about...
ANTIOCH — Two weeks after Georgia-Pacific workers walked off the job, union leaders and management of the plant here are still at odds over wage negotiations at the heart of the worker strike. In a...
View ArticleMinimum wage increase for California healthcare workers is finally kicking in
By Ana B. Ibarra | CalMatters California health workers this month will finally get a long-promised minimum wage increase. The raise kicks in this month, according to a letter state health officials...
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California collects millions in stolen wages, but can’t find many workers to...
By Jeanne Kuang | CalMatters Nearly a year after California settled a major wage theft case with The Cheesecake Factory, most of the money hasn’t reached the workers, underscoring the state’s...
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Proposition 32 would raise California’s minimum wage to $18 — but would it...
A closely fought ballot initiative on the Nov. 5 ballot, bankrolled by a deep-pocketed anti-poverty crusader, would raise California’s state-wide minimum wage to $18 an hour. An extra $2 an hour is...
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Lilly Ledbetter dies at 86; one-time factory manager was pivotal in fight for...
By Alexandra Olson | Associated Press NEW YORK — Lilly Ledbetter, a former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage...
View ArticleCalifornia Uber and Lyft drivers could get back pay
By Levi Sumagaysay | CalMatters Tens of thousands of California ride-hailing drivers, and possibly more, could eventually get back paid after a recent US Supreme Court decision that clears the way for...
View ArticleSanta Cruz Beach Boardwalk parent company settles class action wage lawsuit...
SANTA CRUZ — The Santa Cruz Seaside Co., which operates the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, recently settled a lawsuit in Santa Cruz County Superior Court to pay nearly $6 million to a group of current and...
View ArticleBoeing’s machinists strike is over but the troubled aerospace giant still...
By DAVID KOENIG, LINDSEY WASSON, HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and CATHY BUSSEWITZ SEATTLE (AP) — Factory workers at Boeing have voted to accept a contract offer and end their strike after more than seven weeks,...
View ArticleApple illegally threatened workers over their talk about pay and remote work,...
One Apple employee was allegedly threatened with unspecified reprisals if they talked about their performance bonus. Another was purportedly ordered to delete a post on social media about how to...
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