labor unions

About 48,000 union-backed employees of the University of California walked off the job and onto the picket line Monday morning. At UC Merced, the system’s newest campus, employees are calling on the UC Regents to raise wages so they can afford housing.

More than 2,000 Kaiser Permanente psychologists, therapists and other mental health workers in Northern California started an open-ended strike Monday over high workloads and excessive wait times.

Farmworkers from across the state have set off on a 335-mile trek to Sacramento to show support for a voting rights bill

Farmworkers throughout California will start marching up the Central Valley this week to support a voting rights bill.

The United Farm Workers is among the most high-profile unions in the state, despite a decades-long struggle to grow its ranks. To get a better sense of the challenge to recruit members, we speak with Philip Martin, UC Davis professor emeritus of agricultural and resource economics.

Constructing the high-speed rail can’t be done from home, so to protect employees from COVID-19, workers are operating differently. Diana Gomez is the…