Biggest public worker union elects new president
"You provide the safe neighborhoods, you provide the good schools, you provide the hospitals. We owe you!" Biden declared.
California hotel ordered to shell out $36,000 in back pay
An Embassy Suites hotel was found guilty of denying required paid rest breaks to seven of its workers, and has been ordered to pay each of them about $5,000.
Workers demonstrate to save the U.S. mail
Postal workers and their supporters here were among many thousands throughout the country who demonstrated to save the U.S. Postal Service from austerity measures
Thousands of California nurses strike to fight takeaways
The nurses were among 23,000 of their co-workers holding a one-day strike at three-dozen Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente facilities in northern and central California, as well as Oakland Children's Hospital.
Farmworker rights bill awaits Calif. gov’s signature
Now awaiting California Gov. Jerry Brown's signature is a bill to greatly strengthen the rights of the state's 400,000 farmworkers.
West coast grocery talks down to the wire
Bargaining went down to the wire, with the latest session scheduled for today between the United Food and Commercial Workers locals that represent 62,000 Southern California grocery workers and their three grocery chain employers: Ralph's, Albertson's and Vons.
Farm workers march for justice
On Tuesday, farm workers launched a 13-day, 200-mile march, through California's rich agricultural Central Valley to the State Capitol in Sacramento.
Unsung hero of farmworker movement Richard Chavez dies
The civil rights, labor and farm worker community is mourning the loss of Richard E. Chavez, long-time farm worker and civil rights advocate.
Farm workers protest veto of Calif. card check bill
California's Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, vetoed a bill that would have allowed farm workers to use the card check method to unionize. Brown refused to meet with the farm workers and the 25 legislators that camped outside of his office.
Landmark farmworker bill on its way to governor's desk
A bill to make it easier for California's 400,000 farmworkers to choose a union passed both houses of the California Legislature.
