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Staff at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding are bargaining with Prime Healthcare for higher wages and better staffing.
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More than 100 college women’s basketball players across the country have signed on to create unions, starting with a push from 10 members of OSU’s team petitioning the university to recognize them as a bargaining unit.
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Scores of nonviolent protesters were hit with chemical munitions during a union-backed rally Saturday.
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A new law backed by California unions gives a state board the right to regulate working conditions and labor rights as the federal labor board’s fate is in limbo.
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Around 800,000 rideshare drivers in California will formally have the right to unionize starting Jan. 1 under Assembly Bill 1340, which Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law this fall.
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School support staff, including bus drivers, health aides and secretaries, are seeking higher wages.
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California leaders wrapped this year’s legislative session Saturday afternoon, prolonged by last-minute backroom deals on climate and energy, sparking deep frustration among some lawmakers.
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AB 1340 would let California ride-hailing drivers collectively bargain for improved pay and benefits. Uber and Lyft say it could drive ride prices up and availability down.
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A union representing workers along the Northern California coast and the Bay Area secured a last minute deal with the supermarket chain.
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Unions are pushing for shorter freight trains to make railways safer, but that could raise the cost of goods and delay passenger rail service. It also may not be legal.
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A coalition of contractors has argued the move is an unconstitutional power grab.
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Senate Bill 916 has been one of the most hotly debated bills of this year’s legislative session.
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Oregon construction firms say an order by Gov. Tina Kotek last year mandating union labor in many state projects amounts to an illegal power grab. Now they’re asking a judge to step in.
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Officials at Providence Health and Services have agreed to return to negotiations with a union representing nearly 5,000 nurses across eight hospitals statewide.