October 4, 2023

Read this story in English. Más de 75,000 empleados de Kaiser Permanente abandonaron sus puestos de trabajo esta mañana, iniciando la huelga de trabajadores de la salud más grande en la historia de Estados Unidos, dijeron funcionarios sindicales. Kaiser y la Coalición de Sindicatos de Kaiser Permanente no pudieron llegar a un acuerdo durante una […]

California health care giant Kaiser Permanente could not reach a contract to avert a strike by a union coalition representing some 75,000 employees in five states. The walkout is expected to last three days.

Before decriminalizing psychedelic substances for personal use, California should allow them for therapeutic use, argues the founder of a community clinic in San Francisco.

Read this story in English. Los estudiantes trabajadores de la Universidad Estatal de California están un paso más cerca de sindicalizarse después de que se anunciara hoy que la Junta de Relaciones Públicas de Empleo de California ha considerado que hay suficiente apoyo estudiantil para provocar una votación sindical. Después de examinar miles de tarjetas […]

From CalMatters politics reporter Yue Stella Yu: Two Californians made history Tuesday in our nation’s capital — one starting a new job, the other losing theirs. Laphonza Butler took the oath of office as a U.S. senator, succeeding the late Dianne Feinstein and becoming the first Black and openly LGBTQ woman to serve in the […]

The recent squabble between Gov. Gavin Newsom and union leaders over unemployment insurance for striking workers renewed attention on the insolvent system that administers benefits.