Initial filings for unemployment benefits in California dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 40, ...

California is joining nine other mostly Democratic states that have recently banned these so-called captive audience meetings ...

Striking Amazon and Starbucks workers in California and elsewhere have long pushed for union contracts. The Trump ...

On Jan. 1, California’s minimum wage will increase to $16.50. That’s a 50-cent increase in 2025 over the 2024 minimum wage.

A rolling strike of Starbucks baristas began Friday and grows to include about 300 of the coffee giant's shops across the U.S ...

A University of California workers union was successful in its fight to oust an Orange County Democrat from the state Senate after he did not support a bill it backed in the Legislature.