Repeal Prop 218
The drought has done at least one good thing – it’s shined a spotlight on Prop 218. Specifically, a court’s decision to block a tiered-pricing scheme for water in one Orange County community – as a violation of Prop 218 – is responsible for the attention. Gov. Brown criticized the decision as limiting the flexibility […]
Patterson’s AB 1389 Deserves Bipartisan Support
Farm employees at Gerawan Farming, Inc. have been enduring an incredibly frustrating situation for over two years. In the fall of 2012 they were informed that that there had been an election in 1990, when, in a close vote, field employees had approved joining a union. They were told that the union was now appearing […]
More Evidence that California Has a Wage Gap More Than a Skills Gap
Last Thursday, the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education released Low Wage Work in California: 2014 Chartbook, its most recent study of earnings in California. Among the chief findings: the gap continues to grow between the low wage workforce and the rest of the California workforce. The study drew on Census Bureau data […]
California Motorists ‘Don’t Get No Respect’
Now there is no question that road and bridge maintenance is lagging in the Golden State. Most counties have an average pavement rating of “at risk” or “poor” according to a finding by the California Transportation Commission. In addition to the safety hazards caused by poor road maintenance, there is a direct cost to the […]