California Labor Strategies

09/10/2022

Watching LA County Public Defenders Union Local 148 take to the streets to demand immediate workload relief....

I feel a little like Yoda sometimes.....

07/23/2022

Working with my LA County Public Defender union clients at a Joint Labor Management Committee meeting yesterday afternoon.
Nice to be meeting in person again, even if we are all masked up...

07/14/2022

The direction of the current court points toward a very difficult future for Labor. As always, we need to ORGANIZE....

The last month marked not just the temporary end of women’s constitutional right to choose, but also the permanent end of the current Supreme Court as a respected institution in American life. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and West Virginia v. EPA are the endgame conceptually (though I fear no...

07/22/2021

Long Live Scabby the Rat!

The National Labor Relations Board says unions can continue to display Scabby the Rat.

06/11/2021

This.
Been thinking these same thoughts while red states cut of increased unemployment benefits.

Americans aren't lazy, they just want to be paid a fair wage and treated well.

02/09/2021

The US is one of the last developed countries without a national requirement for paid sick and family leave. Maybe it'll finally change in this administration....

The Treasury secretary’s comments come as House committees prepare to finalize relief legislation in coming days.

02/06/2021

These concepts have been talked about for DECADES. It's time to make them happen...

The PRO Act aims to boost workers' bargaining rights during the pandemic but is unlikely to get through the Senate.

02/04/2021

Just the start of a big fight.....

The L.A. City Council has ordered staff to draft an ordinance requiring big grocery and pharmacy chains to pay workers an extra $5 an hour for 4 months.

02/03/2021

Rosa Parks wasn't the person you learned about in school.
“'I don’t believe in gradualism,' she made clear, 'or that whatever is to be done for the better should take forever to do.'”

The way we talk about her covers up uncomfortable truths about American racism.

02/01/2021

The Biden NLRB already working to undo litigation that would make it harder to organize....

The NLRB’s new general counsel ended a case that his Trump administration predecessor had put in motion in hopes of curbing unions’ use of neutrality agreements with employers.

01/29/2021

Way to go, Maine!
"Nearly 13,000 Mainers joined a union in 2020, bringing union membership to 82,000, compared with 69,000 in 2019, according to data the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday. "

Nearly 15 percent of Maine workers belonged to a union in 2020, the highest level in 20 years.

01/27/2021

IATSE offers to help build vaccination centers!

Out-of-work backstage crews in the entertainment industry are volunteering to help in the fight against Covid-19.