Union protesters seeking higher wages for resort workers march on Disneyland...
Disneyland Resort workers staged another protest Thursday, the same day Anaheim officials announced an initiative to raise some workers’ wages has enough signatures to appear on the fall ballot. The...
View ArticleAre you a ‘production and nonsupervisory’ worker? Your wages are falling
By Jeff Stein and Andrew Van Dam | Washington Post The average hourly wage paid to a key group of American workers has fallen from last year when accounting for inflation, as an economy that appears...
View ArticleBay Area’s stark gaps between haves and have-nots
Even as Bay Area tech professionals take home the highest disposable incomes in the country, local service workers have sunk to the bottom with little or no cash left over after living expenses, a new...
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The eye-popping definition of what is “low income” in the Bay Area increases...
(Click here, if you are unable to view this photo gallery on your mobile device.) In a region where even people with six-figure incomes struggle to find a place to live, the threshold for who qualifies...
View ArticleLow pay for child care workers puts more than half at poverty level, study finds
A majority of child care workers in California are paid so little they qualify for public assistance programs, according to a new report on the early education workforce. Fifty-eight percent of child...
View ArticleCourt: Starbucks, others must pay California workers for off clock work
By SUDHIN THANAWALA | The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Starbucks and other employers in California must pay workers for minutes they routinely spend off the clock on tasks such as locking up or...
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Silvery Towers labor woes draw accusations of human trafficking and slave labor
SAN JOSE — Hundreds of protesters rallied in front of the soaring Silvery Towers high-rises in downtown San Jose on Thursday, accusing the project’s principal developer, Full Power Properties, of slave...
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Amazon delivery drivers worked without breaks, weren’t paid for overtime:...
Yolanda Champion had to wear a polo shirt and ball cap with the Amazon logo while delivering Amazon’s packages in a truck also bearing the company logo, but as a contractor and not an employee she and...
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1 in 3 Californians has a low-wage job, according to new UC Berkeley study
Who’s a low-wage worker in California? A new UC Berkeley Labor Center study defines low-wage workers as those earning less than two-thirds of the median full-time wage in California. In 2017, this...
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Silicon Valley wages have dropped for all except highest-paying jobs: report
Nine out of every 10 Silicon Valley jobs pays less now than when Netflix first launched in 1997, despite one of the nation’s strongest economic booms and a historically low unemployment rate that...
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Why is Santa Clara County’s gender wage gap the largest in the Bay Area?
Women working in Santa Clara County are paid just 62 cents for every $1 their male peers get, the largest gender income gap in the Bay Area and the third largest in California. Less than 50 miles...
View ArticleMountain View to consider freezing minimum hourly wage at $15 for next year
After setting the pace in raising the minimum wage of workers to $15 an hour, the Mountain View City Council is being asked by one of its members to freeze the rate so the city can better understand...
View ArticleEffort to freeze Mountain View’s minimum wage fails
Mountain View’s minimum wage will rise to $15.65 beginning Jan.1 after an attempt to keep it at $15 until 2020 failed. The increase, adjusted for inflation, is in line with Sunnyvale, which made the...
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Silicon Valley worker shortage creates upside-down labor market
Higher education is supposed to be the ticket to employment. But in some Bay Area counties, workers with a high school diploma have lower unemployment rates than those with bachelor’s degrees or...
View ArticleMinimum wage rising in 20 states and numerous cities
By David A. Lieb | Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — At Granny Shaffer’s restaurant in Joplin, Missouri, owner Mike Wiggins is reprinting the menus to reflect the 5, 10 or 20 cents added to each...
View ArticleCould Gov. Newsom’s ambitious housing goals be sidelined by a worker shortage?
(CLICK HERE, if you are unable to view this photo gallery on your mobile device.) Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he wants to build as many as 3.5 million new houses by 2025 to solve California’s housing...
View ArticleOakland Unified preps for possible teachers strike
OAKLAND — In anticipation of a possible teachers strike later this month, Oakland Unified is scrambling to cobble a plan to keep schools operating, one that may involve consolidating classes, bringing...
View ArticleSanta Clara County expands program to fight wage theft and worker abuse
SAN JOSE — Santa Clara County is expanding its efforts to prevent wage theft and worker abuse, thanks to the Board of Supervisors’ unanimous decision Tuesday to pour $500,000 into the Office of Labor...
View ArticleIn some Bay Area cities, making $200,000 a year means you’re middle class
CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device Middle class incomes in some Bay Area cities are among the fastest growing in the country, but the definition of middle...
View ArticleNonprofits won’t have to abide by city’s minimum wage law, Fremont council...
The Fremont City Council, which voted in January to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020 for large employers and by 2021 for small ones, decided Tuesday to exempt nonprofits from having...
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