If you’re Uber and Lyft, you buy a labor law through the ballot initiative system that legalizes the payment of poverty wages.
California
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Making Paid Family Leave Work for Working Families
Twenty years after creating the country’s first paid family leave program, California ponders how to make it useful to those who need it most.
Posted inPolitics
A Swing-Seat Candidate Runs Against Corporate Power
Will Rollins, campaigning against a long-serving Republican, is waging much of his race by fighting money in politics and corporate concentration.
Posted inLaw and Justice
San Quentin Is Still Punishing People for Being Sick
Incarcerated people described filthy conditions and harsh treatment in San Quentin’s medical quarantine unit.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Amazon Raises Prices Throughout Retail, California Alleges
Another antitrust lawsuit tracks with an ingenious line of argument showing how the company famous for ensuring the lowest prices is actually increasing them elsewhere.
Posted inTAP
The Fast-Food Empire Strikes Back
Today on TAP: One day after sectoral bargaining is signed into California law, the industry announces a ballot measure to repeal it.
Posted inTAP
It’s Biden vs. Newsom for the Title of Labor’s Best Friend
Today on TAP: Labor Day weekend sees them duking it out on the question of who’s more pro-union.
Posted inWorking in America
Pro-Labor State Legislatures Aren’t Pro-Labor for Their Staff
Staffers in both the Massachusetts and California legislatures seek to unionize, but their ostensibly pro-labor bosses have refused to let them.
Posted inWorking in America
Companies Are Required to Report Their Union Busting, but Many Don’t
Legally required documentation is often withheld until the threat of worker power has been quelled.
Posted inWorking in America
California Tries Something Novel: Enhancing Worker Power
The legislature enacts industry-wide bargaining in fast food—something new under the American sun.
