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Apprenticeship instructor Mike Miller, center, demonstrates how to set up a theodolite, a hyper-sensitive angle measuring device, for apprentices Daniel Rivas, left, Ivan Aguilar, right, and Quetzalcoatl Orta, far right, at Iron Workers union in Benicia on June 10, 2021. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters

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

by Manuela Tobias June 16, 2021June 17, 2021

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

California Capitol. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

California’s ‘tort wars’ flaring up again

by Dan Walters April 21, 2021April 20, 2021

AB 5

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Want to help independent contractors? Mandate standard worker benefits

by Guest Commentary March 31, 2021March 30, 2021

Demonstrators calling for $15 an hour and a union protest at a McDonald's restaurant in downtown Los Angeles in 2016. According to a recent report, California's economic divide has grown wider during the pandemic. Photo by Richard Vogel

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

by Emily Hoeven March 3, 2021March 3, 2021

Family daycare provider Lucre-ce Lester takes a student’s temperature as he arrives for the day at her home-based daycare in Antioch on Feb. 17, 2021. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters

Children and Youth

Burgeoning child care union secures COVID-19 relief funding approval

by Elizabeth Aguilera February 22, 2021February 22, 2021

Registered Nurse Reanne Takara administers the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to frontline health workers at UC Davis Medical Center on Dec. 15, 2020. Photo courtesy of UC Davis Health

Who’s next? Counties lobbied over vaccine priority list

by Barbara Feder Ostrov and Ana B. Ibarra December 21, 2020January 5, 2021

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

by Guest Commentary September 2, 2020September 1, 2020

gig work protesters carrying signs supporting AB-5, a bill that would change the employment classification for on-demand workers such as Uber and Lyft drivers, is posted in front of the California capitol on August 28, 2019. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

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

by Lauren Hepler August 13, 2020August 21, 2020

Disaster days legislation + New effort to curb health care costs + Unions make gains

by Dan Morain January 24, 2020January 24, 2020

On a holiday week, fire, rain — and workplace turmoil

by Laurel Rosenhall November 26, 2019November 26, 2019