Labor

The Danger Isn’t That AI Is Too Smart—It’s That It’s Stupid

  “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” read…

5 days ago

City of Long Beach Reaches Tentative Three-Year Labor Agreement with IBEW

  LONG BEACH  – The City of Long Beach has reached a tentative three-year labor agreement with the International Brotherhood…

2 weeks ago

New California Law Protects Workers, Requires Disclosures on AI Generated Advertising

  LOS ANGELES – Expanding California’s work to bring transparency and accountability to rapidly evolving AI technology, Gov. Gavin Newsom…

2 weeks ago

A New System of Labor Threatens Farmworker Power

Farmworkers began harvesting watermelons as soon as there was enough light to see, in a field near Arvin, California, in…

2 weeks ago

Newsom Expands Film & TV Tax Credits, Boosts Post-Production Jobs

  LOS ANGELES – Gov. Newsom Sept. 19 signed new legislation further expanding California’s nation-leading film and television tax credit…

2 weeks ago

Labor Day Parade Speakers Take Aim at Starbucks, Prop. 45

  At the LA/LB Labor Coalition Labor Day Parade, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Yvonne Wheeler introduced two…

3 weeks ago

A Fight for Dignity: Security Officers Challenge the Poverty-Wage Economy

  Last week, a day before the solemn commemoration of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Los Angeles County Federation…

3 weeks ago

POLA Posts Best Three-Month Cargo Stretch in Its History and Retail Supply Chain Discussion

  LOS ANGELES –  On Sept. 9, Port of Los Angeles reported waterfront workers processed 955,907 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs)…

4 weeks ago

Wage Theft Worker Advocates In Their Own Words

  Dozens of advocates testified about wage theft during public comments before the city council vote on August 12. Our…

1 month ago

Lucero Herrera On Wage Theft: The Random Lengths Interview

  Lucero Herrera is Research Director at the UCLA Labor Center, which has been a source of pioneering research into…

1 month ago