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Service Employees International Union Local 1000 proposed a 30% pay raise over the life of a three-year contract, with state workers earning a 12% bump in the first year and 9% in the second and ...
California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE) is a coalition of labor unions, mainly affiliated with the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California, that uses California Environmental Quality Act lawsuits (or threats thereof) to force developers of power plants, including new solar and other clean energy projects, to sign "project labor agreements", which require construction be ...
[25] By 1950, the FTA had only 1,000 workers as members, and joined with other locals from the United Office and Professional Workers of America and Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union to form the Distributive and Processing Workers of America; this union lasted until 1954 when its members joined the Retail Workers as District 65.
Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California, first published in 1939 by Little, Brown and Company, New edition, University of California Press (February 21, 2000) ISBN 0520224132; Devra Weber, Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal, 1996 ISBN 9780520207103
SEIU Local 1000, the largest state worker union, planned a one-day walkout in 2016. But the strike was canceled at the last minute when the union and then-Gov. Jerry Brown returned to the table ...
The California Department of Human Resources said in a statement that both parties agreed to return to the bargaining table after the union rejected a final offer by the state in December.
The Southern California supermarket strike of 2003–2004 was a strike by the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW) against four supermarket chains in Southern California. Management and the unions arrived at a contract after twenty weeks, with both sides claiming victory.
The victory comes less than six months after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law to expand unionization rights of farmworkers.