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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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Un sindicato que representa a 2000 trabajadores de salud mental de Kaiser Northern California anunció esta mañana planes para una huelga indefinida a partir del 15 de agosto. Entre las razones que señalaron los representantes sindicales: la alta carga de trabajo de los médicos y los pacientes que esperan...
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A union representing 2,000 Kaiser Northern California mental health workers this morning announced plans for an open-ended strike beginning Aug. 15. Among the reasons union representatives outlined: high clinician workloads and patients waiting weeks or even months for mental health care. Even as demand for care has surged, frustrated therapists are...
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Aunque los trabajadores agrícolas y de producción de alimentos fueron considerados trabajadores esenciales durante la pandemia, muchos de los empleadores de alimentos de California pusieron en peligro a esos trabajadores, violando las pautas COVID-19 de Cal/OSHA con más frecuencia que la mayoría de las industrias, según un nuevo informe....
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Although farm and food production workers were considered essential workers during the pandemic, many of California’s food employers endangered those workers, violating Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19 guidelines more often than most industries, a new report said. The California Institute for Rural Studies’ report said farm and food production employers routinely failed to provide...
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Yvonne Vigil-Calderon, an osteopathic medicine student at Touro University California, went to the doctor earlier this year with such severe exhaustion that she thought she was anemic. Her lab results came back normal. “‘When was the last time you took a day off?’” her doctor asked. She realized she...
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As the country reels with the highest levels of inflation seen since the 1980s, experts say without adding more workers, wage increases could drive prices – and inflation – even higher in Ohio and across the U.S. While many future jobs will be taken by youths aging into the...
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Paula Cortez Medrano has worked in the agriculture industry since she arrived in the U.S. over 25 years ago. She has labored in the heat of Fresno summers, picking onions, tomatoes, grapes, and garlic and in the freezing temperatures of local produce packing houses, where she would wear two...
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Mientras el estado se prepara para cerrar sus prisiones juveniles, los trabajadores de la División de Justicia Juvenil podrían recibir bonos de hasta $50,000 para permanecer en el trabajo hasta ese entonces, según pudo saber CalMatters. Si se aprueba, el bono parece estar entre los más grandes que ofrece...
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....
Un sindicato que representa a 2000 trabajadores de salud mental de Kaiser Northern California anunció esta mañana planes para una huelga indefinida a partir del 15 de agosto. Entre las razones que señalaron los representantes sindicales: la alta carga de trabajo de los médicos y los pacientes que esperan...
A union representing 2,000 Kaiser Northern California mental health workers this morning announced plans for an open-ended strike beginning Aug. 15. Among the reasons union representatives outlined: high clinician workloads and patients waiting weeks or even months for mental health care. Even as demand for care has surged, frustrated therapists are...
Aunque los trabajadores agrícolas y de producción de alimentos fueron considerados trabajadores esenciales durante la pandemia, muchos de los empleadores de alimentos de California pusieron en peligro a esos trabajadores, violando las pautas COVID-19 de Cal/OSHA con más frecuencia que la mayoría de las industrias, según un nuevo informe....
Yvonne Vigil-Calderon, an osteopathic medicine student at Touro University California, went to the doctor earlier this year with such severe exhaustion that she thought she was anemic. Her lab results came back normal. “‘When was the last time you took a day off?’” her doctor asked. She realized she...
As the country reels with the highest levels of inflation seen since the 1980s, experts say without adding more workers, wage increases could drive prices – and inflation – even higher in Ohio and across the U.S. While many future jobs will be taken by youths aging into the...
Paula Cortez Medrano has worked in the agriculture industry since she arrived in the U.S. over 25 years ago. She has labored in the heat of Fresno summers, picking onions, tomatoes, grapes, and garlic and in the freezing temperatures of local produce packing houses, where she would wear two...
Mientras el estado se prepara para cerrar sus prisiones juveniles, los trabajadores de la División de Justicia Juvenil podrían recibir bonos de hasta $50,000 para permanecer en el trabajo hasta ese entonces, según pudo saber CalMatters. Si se aprueba, el bono parece estar entre los más grandes que ofrece...