Oakland Teachers Strike As Contract Talks Stall
From today’s CNN News: Public school educators in Oakland, California, are set to go on strike Thursday morning after contract negotiations between the district and the educators’ union failed to…
LAUSD Closed for Third Day as Workers Set to End Strike
From today’s CNN News: Classrooms in the Los Angeles area were closed for a third day Thursday as school workers capped off a massive strike demanding increased wages and better work conditions.…
Can the United Farm Workers Rise Again?
From today’s New York Times: Veronica Mota marched under the sweltering sun, hoisting a cloth banner of Our Lady of Guadalupe above her head for miles. “Sí, se puede,” she…
San Diego County: Janitorial Companies Must Protect Workers’ Rights or Lose Contracts
From today’s San Diego Union-Tribune: In a win for county office janitors whose labor dispute has pulled in the Board of Supervisors, San Diego County will ask its janitorial contractors…
‘Crunch’ Time, Low Pay Fueling Union Drive for Video Game Workers
From today’s LA Times: For months, Andrés Vásquez’s days working on the first-person shooter game “Doom” blended into one another. A quality assurance tester for id Software in Texas, he…
California’s Fast-Food Workers’ Rights Bill on Hold until 2024 Ballot
From today’s San Jose Mercury News: A bill that would boost wages and promises to improve working conditions for California’s fast-food workers has been put on hold until the November…
Salary Transparency: How I Broke the Last Taboo
From today’s Business Insider: For a few weeks last fall, I was consumed by a strange habit that had me spending a lot of time on LinkedIn, of all apps.…
Ex-Twitter Workers Feared Meager Severance Deals and Elon Musk Set the Bar Even Lower
From today’s Los Angeles Times: After months of waiting, hundreds of Twitter employees laid off by Elon Musk in early November received their separation agreements by email Saturday morning. The…
UC Strike Energizes National Surge of Union Organizing by Academic Workers
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Sam Ponnada, a doctoral candidate helping organize a union at Caltech was surprised by an unexpected campus decision last month to increase graduate student stipends…
Will University of California Academic Workers End the Strike?
From today’s New York Times: Last week, when the University of California and negotiators for striking academic workers announced a tentative agreement to end the work stoppage that began on Nov. 14,…