November 9, 2023

Read this story in English. Los trabajadores de una granja de tomates y una empresa empacadora del condado de Stanislaus son los primeros en sindicalizarse exitosamente bajo una nueva ley de California que facilita la organización de los trabajadores agrícolas, dijo el sindicato United Farm Workers. El sindicato informó que la Junta de Relaciones Laborales […]

The United Farm Workers, which represents nearly 7,000 workers, won a unionization vote in Stanislaus County. It’s the first such win in six years and first under a law that went into effect in May.

Read this story in English. Más de 2 millones de personas de entre 16 y 24 años trabajan en California (aproximadamente la misma población de Houston), lo que representa el 12% de la fuerza laboral. Constituyen una parte crítica de la economía del estado, según un nuevo informe del Centro Laboral de UCLA.  Pero muchos jóvenes ganaron […]

Young people are stuck earning low wages, working long hours — often while going to school — and often without benefits or work protections. Their hardships may hamper the state’s economy for years to come, researchers said.

Read this story in English. Ramón Ruelas retó a un invitado a una partida de ajedrez a las 7 de la mañana en Mexicali, México, cerca de la frontera con California, donde pasó casi una década en prisión.  El padre de origen mexicano, de 33 años, jugaba a pura concentración, hasta que su hija de […]

California's whopping $14.4 billion prison budget and the governor’s $360.6 million price tag to "transform" San Quentin into a rehabilitation center seemingly overlook the existing problems with the prison’s infrastructure. Maintenance needs topped $1.6 billion in 2021, and the issues inside are slow to improve if they do at all.

Ramon Ruelas grew up in California and served a decade in prison. Now free, he can’t live with his wife and daughter, who are U.S. citizens. Lawmakers want California to stop handing former inmates like him to ICE. Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed the bills.

With three months left to go, more than $358 million has been spent this year on lobbying California’s Legislature, agencies, and Public Utilities Commission