A Times series exposing labor exploitation, corruption and other problems in California's cannabis industry spurs calls for ...

Chunli Zhao told NBC Bay Area he carried out the two shootings that left seven of his co-workers dead, and claimed that he ...

A month later, a few weeks after Labor Day, California Governor Gavin Newsom approved the historic measure to allow farmworkers in the state to vote in union ... of the civil rights movement ...

Avoiding this tradeoff, they believe, depends on farmworkers ... Newsom was forced to sign a bill he originally vetoed that makes it possible for workers to win union representation rights through ...

The law was championed by first partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom ... than 400,000 farmworkers harvest $51 billion in crops yearly in California fields. Less than 2% belong to a union, far below ...

Gavin Newsom to sign legislation making it easier for the union to organize laborers. Western Growers, an agribusiness association, said the law overturns “the right of farmworkers to a state ...

Workers killed in a massacre at two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay on Monday worked for low wages and were living in conditions the San Mateo County district attorney described as “squalor.” Local ...

Several disability and civil rights advocacy groups in California filed a lawsuit against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) new court program targeting mental health concerns that he signed into law last ...

Gavin Newsom's plan that could force severely mentally ill, unhoused people into court-ordered mental health treatment. Disability Rights California (DRC), Western Center on Law & Poverty and The ...

A coalition of disability and civil rights advocates filed a lawsuit Thursday asking the California Supreme Court to block the rollout of Gov. Gavin Newsom's far-reaching new plan to address ...