Los Angeles’s hotel and restaurant local is no giant, but it has blazed trails for the entire American labor movement.
California
Posted inGreen New Deal
A Green New Deal for Oakland
How a progressive climate vision might help my hometown
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Warren Buffett Is Not the Answer to California’s Energy Grid Problems
Governor Gavin Newsom has floated that America’s billionaire should buy PG&E. Here’s why that’s a bad idea.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Private Utility Companies Keep Merging and Merging
A reported deal between PPL and Avangrid would create an East Coast energy giant with over 13 million customers. That could be bad for ratepayers, and the climate.
Posted inTAP
California’s Success Exposes Jerry Brown’s Failure
Today on TAP: The flurry of Golden State legislation, and the man who stopped it until now
Posted inWorking in America
SEIU Members Outshine Journalists in Questioning Candidates
At a labor forum in Los Angeles, real issues faced by workers took center stage over political noise.
Posted inTAP
A Century in the Making
Today on TAP: California to get public banks, and a weekly roundup
Posted inWorking in America
California Allows Child Care Workers to Unionize
Newly signed legislation gives bargaining rights to 40,000 workers—presaging the largest unionization drive in many years.
Posted inHousing
How California’s Tenants Won Statewide Rent Control
Long a community with little clout, the state’s renters won a victory with national implications.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
California Cracks Down on Dialysis Profiteering
The legislature has sent a bill to the governor that could set a pattern for reducing medical costs.