California
Supermarket strike: Southern California grocery workers poised to walk off the job
July 3, 2019A strike could affect stores from San Luis Obispo down to the border with Mexico, putting as many as 60,000 grocery workers on picket lines.
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Shady contractors jailed in Bay area and on Long Island
June 20, 2019Wage theft and outright enslavement of immigrant workers were uncovered by the DOL at the Silvery Towers construction site in San Jose, Calif.
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Bill tightening California standards for police lethal force advances in legislature
June 6, 2019The California Act to Save Lives will give the state some of the strictest standards for the use of force by police.
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California Democratic Party elects union leader Rusty Hicks as chair
June 4, 2019A low-key effective “union organizer to the core,” Rusty Hicks, is now running the California Democratic Party.
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California cracks down on ‘independent contractor’ dodge
May 31, 2019The U.S. Labor Department may be ducking its duty to crack down on the bosses’ “independent contractor” dodge, but California isn’t.
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