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Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez speaks emotionally on favor of her bill AB 5, which would re-classify contract workers, before the concurrence vote in the assembly on September 11, 2019. The bill passed 56-15.
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The Deciders: Meet the lawmaker behind new gig economy law
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, a Democrat from San Diego, is among California’s more powerful state lawmakers and an ally of labor unions. This year, she led the fight to win new protections for gig workers, and won passage of a landmark workplace bill, AB 5. To launch our new video series of political profiles, “The Deciders,” […]
By and • September 20, 2019
The California Senate just a few hours before a protestor splattered a cup of red fluid onto the floor (and more than a few Senators) disrupting proceedings for hours and forcing the entire body to relocate upstairs.
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Blood, sweat and cheers: California lawmakers recover from a night to remember
Even by the last-minute, helter-skelter standards of the end of California’s legislative session, the past 24 hours were remarkable. It will go down in Capitol lore having culminated in the Senate’s emergency relocation, a woman’s arrest, and a senator’s morning-after visit to the doctor in accordance with “safety protocols for blood exposure.” At around 5:15 […]
By • September 14, 2019

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