Unions

加州分水岭

Supreme Court limits California union recruiting in favor of property rights

Commercial growers celebrated the Supreme Court's decision in Cedar Point Nursery v Hassid, but farmworker unions say this will make it harder for them to access workers and advocate for their rights.

经过 Kate Cimini • 6 月 23, 2021

学院节拍

Graduate student researchers at University of California seek union representation

Across the University of California, teaching assistants and tutors are unionized, but graduate student researchers are not. That could soon change, after organizers filed more than 10,000 signed union authorization cards with the California Public Employment Relations Board last month.

经过 Katherine Swartz 和 Gabe Schneider • 6 月 21, 2021

住房

Is union labor requirement in the way of easing California’s affordable housing crisis?

What is a skilled and trained workforce, and what could the labor requirement do to California affordable housing bills in the Legislature?

经过 曼努埃拉·托比亚斯 • 6 月 16, 2021

评论

California’s ‘tort wars’ flaring up again

"Tort wars" over the rules governing personal injury lawsuits in California are heating up again in the Capitol.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 4 月 21, 2021

Reader Reactions

Want to help independent contractors? Mandate standard worker benefits

The spectacle of unions and legislatures drawing up rules for independent contractors fills me with anger and dismay.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 3 月 31, 2021

重要的事情

Governor’s panel: State should help workers unionize, raise wages

California should push for a federal jobs guarantee, raise wages, double the amount of workers who have access to benefits, and help workers form unions. Those were among the recommendations in a report released Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Future of Work Commission, which outlines steps the Golden State should take in order to achieve […]

经过 Emily Hoeven • 3 月 3, 2021

新冠病毒

Burgeoning child care union secures COVID-19 relief funding approval

The state Senate budget committee approved disbursement of $144 million in federal funds to give child care providers some financial relief in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. If approved by the Legislature, it will be a major win for Child Care Providers United, which is still negotiating a master contract with California.

经过 伊丽莎白·阿奎莱拉 • 2 月 22, 2021

健康

Who’s next? Counties lobbied over vaccine priority list

Once the state issues its recommendations, California’s 58 counties will have some flexibility on who’s next to receive vaccinations. That discretion has sparked lobbying by unions, businesses and other interest groups trying to push their workers ahead in the line.

经过 Barbara Feder Ostrov 和 安娜·B·伊瓦拉 • 12 月 21, 2020

评论

Instead of laying off employees, UC should use assets to give them security

The University of California is laying off hundreds of workers in the midst of a pandemic, pushing employees onto the unemployment system.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 9 月 2, 2020

经济

Uber, Lyft and why California’s war over gig work is just beginning

A judge stayed an order that the ride-hailing giants must comply with California’s AB 5 contractor law, but legal arguments, a November ballot battle and big questions about organized labor loom large.

经过 劳伦·赫普勒 • 8 月 13, 2020