Labor In The News

The strike halted maintenance work across the 23 campuses in the nation’s largest four-year public university system.

Around 250 workers and community members picketed for fair wages at the Sonoma Mission Inn Friday night.

After 118 days of the actors guild being out on strike, SAG-AFTRA and the studios on Wednesday reached a tentative deal on a new contract that could see Hollywood up and running again within weeks.

The ordinance, first adopted in 2002, requires contractors doing more than $25,000 in business with the country to pay more than the state minimum wage

A new state law boost pay for fast-food workers to $20 an hour.

To Boeschen, committing to this small safety net in times of emergency isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s the way labor relations are headed in the wine business.

Our Very Own Iliana Madrigal-Hooper is Profiled in the Argus Courier

Butler plans to serve through November 2024. California voters will decide in November who should serve out the final month or so of the current term, as well as who will serve for a full six-year term beginning in January 2025.

Tuesday’s rally featured students and staff who raised their voices over two allied campaigns: student opposition to tuition hikes and faculty disputes over salary negotiations.

Unions representing 75,000 health care workers have reached a tentative agreement with industry giant Kaiser Permanente

Kaiser patients waited 19 days for follow-up mental health appointments in 2019, nine days longer than state law permits. The settlement includes the largest-ever penalty issued by California’s behavioral health regulator.

California becomes the largest state in the nation that will allow non-supervisor legislative staff to join a union and follows Oregon and Maine, whose staff are able to unionize.

An estimated 600 Kaiser Permanente workers march around the Santa Rosa Medical Center Friday afternoon, during the last of a three-day, nationwide strike against the health care giant, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023.

Workers in California will soon receive a minimum of five days of paid sick leave annually, instead of three, under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Wednesday.

Hundreds of medical workers began picketing at the Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center Wednesday morning, joining tens of thousands of others in multiple states in what is expected to be the largest health care worker strike in U.S. history.

Gov. Gavin Newsom confirmed that Laphonza Butler, president of EMILYs List — a political action committee focused on electing pro-choice, Democratic women — will replace the late U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and finish out her term through 2024.

Striking workers would have been eligible to collect California unemployment benefits under a bill that Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed. He said it's a cost the state cannot afford to bear right now. Photo by David Swanson, Reuters

Marin County supervisors have agreed to allocate more money to county employees so they can absorb a surge in Kaiser Permanente health care costs.

The actions follow a Press Democrat investigation that revealed a long trail of workplace abuses by John Meza and his wife, Jessica Meza

The change follows a rash of Zoom bombing incidents that have targeted local governments, most recently Santa Rosa during its Tuesday council meeting.