Please join us for a webinar to discuss a forthcoming UC Berkeley Labor Center report that explores these challenges and provides recommendations for the adoption of high-road practices that benefit workers, patients, and organizations across California’s broader health care system.
Join the UC Berkeley Labor Center and Students of Color in Public Policy for an engaging panel discussion, moderated by Professor Jake Grumbach. Food will be provided!
Join the ASUC EAVP Office and UC Berkeley Labor Center for a forum with student and community organizers who are building power in Bay Area worker and tenant communities.
The interactive data explorer provides comprehensive data on the state’s low-wage workforce, including demographics, job characteristics, industries, occupations, use of public assistance programs, and geography. It also provides users with graphics, tables, research summaries, interactive visualizations, and downloadable data.
The evidence presented in this report makes clear that the risks of unchecked bossware are not merely speculative, but already reshaping working conditions, undercutting established labor protections, and shifting power toward employers—often without workers’ knowledge or consent.
An overview of job quality and equity in existing manufacturing employment in the Bay Area, identifying challenges and strategies for cultivating a high-road manufacturing sector.
In the construction sector in particular, “most of the jobs are really bifurcated,” Hammerling said, between those that lead to family-sustaining work versus jobs that barely make ends meet.
“This is one of the key concerns, especially for nurses,” Khan said, noting a worry that algorithms are taking over decision-making. With increasing remote monitoring of patients and automated handoffs, “health care workers are really concerned about what this is doing to the quality of in-person care and their connection with their patients.”
More than 2 million Californians under age 65 could lose health coverage over the next four years as a result of the state and federal policy changes, according to recent estimates by the UC Berkeley Labor Center and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
“Workers are increasingly part of that movement, speaking up about the fear of job loss and the dehumanizing experience of being surveilled and controlled by an algorithm,” said Annette Bernhardt, senior tech policy adviser at UC Berkeley Labor Center.
