Fast-food workers compel McDonald’s and Starbucks to abandon a ballot measure that would have squelched both.
Gavin Newsom
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Feinstein and Lear
Today on TAP: California’s senior senator is doing her country, her party, and herself no favors by clinging to office.
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The Feinstein Affair: Senate Gerontocracy Reaches Absurd Heights
Old senators, old rules, and old traditions all are cutting against what should be a simple task of confirming judges.
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California Goes In for Drugmaking
The state will make and distribute insulin at cost. That should be a model for every other state.
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Splitting the Strikers at UC
Today on TAP: University of California managers divide (and—not clear yet if they’ll—conquer), while General Motors and Microsoft indulge a modicum of worker power.
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What the UC Strikers Need to Do Differently
Today on TAP: Go off-campus, says a veteran strike and bargaining maven, and visit the offices of regents and legislators. And sit down and settle in there.
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The Academic Proles on the Barricades
Today on TAP: Some progress in the University of California strike, but nowhere near enough. And by the way, where’s Gavin?
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How to Pay Under the Minimum Wage in California
If you’re Uber and Lyft, you buy a labor law through the ballot initiative system that legalizes the payment of poverty wages.
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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.
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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.