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…
Teens Win the Right to Vote, But Alameda County Disenfranchised Them
From today’s Washington Post: If all had gone as planned, thousands of high-schoolers in Oakland would have cast their ballots for the first time on Election Day. Many of them…
Strike by U.C. Academic Workers Continues Into a Second Week
From today’s New York Times: Hundreds of academic workers chanting “Shut it down” and “We’ve got the power” marched through U.C. San Diego’s seaside campus on Monday as one of…
California Passes Law Creating Fast Food Labor Board, Giving It Power Over Wages
From today’s Sacramento Bee: California would become the first state to establish a fast food council charged with setting pay and workplace standards for the entire industry under a bill…
Tesla Under Scrutiny by Federal Agency Regarding Workplace Civil Rights Laws
From today’s CBNC News Online: A federal agency responsible for enforcing civil rights laws against workplace discrimination issued a cause finding against electric vehicle maker Tesla in June, according to…
SF’s DA recalled, LA’s Caruso Advances, Testing Democrats On Crime
From today’s New York Times: Crime, homelessness and Democratic divisions over the issues took center stage Tuesday as a liberal prosecutor in San Francisco was recalled and seven states held…
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Southern California Grocery Workers Prepare to Strike for Wages and Benefits
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Grocery workers across Southern California began voting Monday on whether to authorize a strike against Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions in an effort to pressure…