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By the time Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 525 into law in 2023, SEIU-UHW and many other unions had signed labor contracts with large health systems that spelled out the path to $25 an hour.
The following holidays are observed by the majority of US businesses with paid time off: New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, [ 2 ] Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the day after known as Black Friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas. There are also numerous holidays on the state and local level that are observed to varying degrees.
CNA was the first nurses union in the U.S. to win collective bargaining contracts for nurses when Shirley Carew Titus [7] advocated for agreements with the East Bay Hospital Conference for minimum salaries, time-and-a-half pay for overtime, shift differentials for night and weekend work, a 40-hour work week, paid holidays, vacations, and sick ...
California Refinery and Chemical Plant Worker Safety Act of 1990 added section 7872 and 7873 to the Labor Code. On September 25, 1992, AB 2601 was signed into law. [20] It protected gays and lesbians against employment discrimination. [21] California was the seventh state to add sexual orientation to laws barring job discrimination. [22]
A year after 'hot labor summer,' California Legislature chills on union demands amid budget concerns. Mackenzie Mays. September 2, 2024 at 6:00 AM. Members of UFCW 770 protest in front of the ...
When health care workers in California asked the state Legislature for a raise earlier this year, it seemed like the longest of long shots — especially after lawmakers in May had to loan ...
Abraham Lincoln, First Annual Message (1861) Like slavery, common law repression of labor unions was slow to be undone. In 1806, Commonwealth v. Pullis held that a Philadelphia shoemakers union striking for higher wages was an illegal "conspiracy", even though corporations —combinations of employers—were lawful. Unions still formed and acted. The first federation of unions, the National ...
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 ...