UFCW: Tentative deal reached with Ralphs and Vons/Albertsons
"We are happy to say that the corporate owners of Ralphs and Vons/Albertsons have agreed to a proposed contract."
Southern California: 47,000 grocery workers prepare to strike
At a rally in front of a Vons and a Ralphs market, UFCW members carried a sign summing up their position: "Grocery jobs should feed a family."
May Day, West Coast style
Two large May Day marches converged upon downtown Los Angeles; the flow of marchers and supporters continued for miles.
It’s official! LA City Council votes hike in minimum wage to $15
On July 1, 2016, the minimum wage will go up to $10.50, and continue to increase gradually until 2020, when it hits $15 an hour.
Los Angeles raising minimum wage to $15 by 2020
"Our city has taken a much-needed, significant step toward lifting hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty."
In terms of minimum wage, California city races to the top
Emeryville, Calif. is putting its minimum wage on track to become the highest in the nation.
Today in history: Dolores Huerta is born in 1930
In 1962, Dolores Huerta and César Chávez launched the National Farm Workers Association; Huerta's organizing skills were essential to its growth.
Growers move to gut California’s farm labor law
Gerawan Farming, one of the country's largest growers, is challenging the law that makes farm workers' union rights enforceable.
28 arrested so far in sit-down strikes at California Walmarts
The group was joined by hundreds of Californians who rallied outside the store in Pico Rivera, the site of the first Walmart strikes in 2012.
Trumka backs measure to limit crimes classified as felonies
He stressed that mass incarceration of people of color is not a result of a higher crime rate, but of laws that criminalize a whole class of people.
