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Wage theft is common in low-wage industries in California. Tens of thousands of workers — in restaurants, nail salons, warehouses, farms, car washes and other industries – lose out on millions of dollars in stolen wages each year. Wage theft happens when employers deliberately pay workers below the minimum...
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El estado dijo que el caso contra Playa Vista sería el mayor pago de robo de salarios por parte de un lavado de autos de California. Años después, Antonio Domínguez y docenas de otros lavadores de autos aún no han visto ninguno de sus salarios impagos. Antonio Domínguez nunca...
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Antonio Dominguez had never seen a car wash before moving to Los Angeles from Mexico in 1997. As a 24-year-old day laborer, he’d walk home each day, stop along a palm-lined boulevard and watch a team of mostly Mexican workers sponge, rinse, dry and polish a line of cars....
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El presidente Joe Biden está pidiendo a las compañías de petróleo y gas que comiencen a desviar las ganancias récord de los bolsillos de los accionistas para ofrecerles a los estadounidenses algo de alivio en la bomba. Un nuevo análisis económico sugiere que el enfoque podría ser clave para...
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President Joe Biden is calling on oil and gas companies to start steering record profits away from shareholder pockets to give Americans some relief at the pump. A new economic analysis suggests the approach could be key to lowering prices across the board. Josh Bivens, research director for the Economic Policy...
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AUSTIN, Texas – Community colleges offering apprenticeship programs are poised to get a $12 billion boost from President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan. In Congress, members of both parties have expressed support for targeting funds for community college-based apprenticeship programs – typically used to train workers on the job, allowing...
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AUSTIN — Los colegios comunitarios que ofrecen programas de aprendizaje están listos para recibir un impulso de 12 billones de dólares del plan de infraestructura del presidente Joe Biden. En el Congreso, miembros de ambos partidos han expresado su apoyo a la asignación de fondos para programas de aprendizaje basados...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The issue of equal pay for equal work is front and center in Congress this week as House Democrats reintroduced the Paycheck Fairness Act. It comes 10 years after President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which modernized and improved...
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Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR Two school districts, Los Angeles Unified School District and Oakland Unified School District, are experiencing teacher’s union collective bargaining. The strike issues involve salary & benefits, class size, support staffing levels, and charter school caps. Many citizens do not know that charter schools are funded...
Wage theft is common in low-wage industries in California. Tens of thousands of workers — in restaurants, nail salons, warehouses, farms, car washes and other industries – lose out on millions of dollars in stolen wages each year. Wage theft happens when employers deliberately pay workers below the minimum...
El estado dijo que el caso contra Playa Vista sería el mayor pago de robo de salarios por parte de un lavado de autos de California. Años después, Antonio Domínguez y docenas de otros lavadores de autos aún no han visto ninguno de sus salarios impagos. Antonio Domínguez nunca...
Antonio Dominguez had never seen a car wash before moving to Los Angeles from Mexico in 1997. As a 24-year-old day laborer, he’d walk home each day, stop along a palm-lined boulevard and watch a team of mostly Mexican workers sponge, rinse, dry and polish a line of cars....
El presidente Joe Biden está pidiendo a las compañías de petróleo y gas que comiencen a desviar las ganancias récord de los bolsillos de los accionistas para ofrecerles a los estadounidenses algo de alivio en la bomba. Un nuevo análisis económico sugiere que el enfoque podría ser clave para...
AUSTIN, Texas – Community colleges offering apprenticeship programs are poised to get a $12 billion boost from President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan. In Congress, members of both parties have expressed support for targeting funds for community college-based apprenticeship programs – typically used to train workers on the job, allowing...
AUSTIN — Los colegios comunitarios que ofrecen programas de aprendizaje están listos para recibir un impulso de 12 billones de dólares del plan de infraestructura del presidente Joe Biden. En el Congreso, miembros de ambos partidos han expresado su apoyo a la asignación de fondos para programas de aprendizaje basados...
Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The issue of equal pay for equal work is front and center in Congress this week as House Democrats reintroduced the Paycheck Fairness Act. It comes 10 years after President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which modernized and improved...
Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR Two school districts, Los Angeles Unified School District and Oakland Unified School District, are experiencing teacher’s union collective bargaining. The strike issues involve salary & benefits, class size, support staffing levels, and charter school caps. Many citizens do not know that charter schools are funded...
