Socorro Díaz When the fires started burning here in Sonoma County recently, I thought back to 2018, the last time my city of Santa Rosa was in flames. My family and I packed our bags and were ready to evacuate, just like we did last time. During the last round of fires, I came back…
On August 27th, the California State Assembly voted in favor of SB 1257, the Health and Safety for All Workers Act, with 58 votes in favor and 12 votes against. The bill, which is co-sponsored by the California Domestic Workers Coalition, Worksafe, Equal Rights Advocates, California Employment Lawyers Association, and AFSCME-UDW and authored by Senator…
On November 8, 2018, a brush fire broke out in the dry grassy hills in the Malibu area of Los Angeles. Dubbed the Woolsey Fire, the flames erupted during the subsequent days, tracing a massive path across Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. The fire killed three individuals and prompted the evacuation of more than 295,000…
The San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement (OLSE) was established in 2001 as the first municipal labor standards enforcement agency in the country. As cities across the U.S. look to San Francisco as a model for labor standards enforcement, researchers with the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO) at Rutgers University chose to study San Francisco’s minimum wage enforcement…