Posts Tagged: labor unions

Opinion

Outsourced UC workers should be paid what they are owed

AFSCME union demonstrators at SAFSCME Union protesters at UC Santa Cruz. <(Photo: jacobbrown2397, via Shutterstock)

OPINION: Just weeks before COVID 19 shut down California and the entire country, the University of California’s largest labor union ratified new contracts for nearly 30,000 of UC’s frontline service and health employees.

News

November ballot plan seeks new school money, would alter Prop. 13 of 1978

A California school classroom. (Photo: Monkey Business Imagesd, via Shutterstock)

An initiative to reclaim up to $12 billion for California public schools and local communities could make its way onto the ballot in November 2020. Proponents of the measure say it will force large corporations to pay their fair share in property taxes. The Schools & Communities First initiative would amend the current property tax law established under Proposition 13 in 1978.

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