The U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup temporarily blocked the Trump Administration’s repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on January 9, 2018, and restored protections to hundreds of thousands of deserving immigrants pending a final decision by the court.
Read MoreFrom UNAC/UHCP: Celebrating the Life and Work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Many chapters in the story of civil rights leader Martin Luther King are well known to Americans. The I Have a Dream speech. The Nobel Peace Prize. The Mountaintop speech. His Letter from the Birmingham Jail. His commitment to nonviolence. All the incredible accomplishments of a visionary. Our series on Martin Luther King, Jr., to mark the 50th anniversary of his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, covers some of the lesser known parts of his history.
Read MoreUnion Women and the #MeToo/#TIMESUP Movement
The final months of 2017 have brought mass national attention to an issue which has plagued working women for decades, that of workplace sexual harassment and assault that has come to be known as the #MeToo movement.
Read MoreLocal instructor calls for living wage in Sonoma County
In 2016, after years of hard work and dedication, working people won a huge victory: We raised the minimum wage in California. This historic victory put workers on a path to earning $15/hr by 2022 and set the stage for local communities and states throughout the nation to raise their minimum wages, too. Some communities with higher costs of living – like San Francisco, San Jose and Los Angeles – built on the new minimum wage law and passed legislation and ballot measures to get to $15 even quicker.
Read MoreCalifornia Enacts New Laws to Protect Workers in Face of Trump Attacks
While the Trump Administration is hellbent on ripping worker protections to shreds at the federal level, the labor movement in California spent 2017 shoring up workers’ rights here and advancing a bold agenda to counter Trump’s rollbacks and make life better for millions of Californians.
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