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.

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.

“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.

The UC Berkeley Labor Center, which has extensively researched this topic, puts the current number of low-wage workers in the state at 5.7 million — nearly 35% of all of California’s workers.

“They’re playing this critical public safety role, but their wages and training have not kept pace with those responsibilities and risks with the job,” said Enrique Lopezlira, a labor economist at Berkeley and an author of the report.

A report from the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, including research from the UC Berkeley Labor Center. This edition of the “State of the Unions” report offers readers insight into how California unions are faring in the face of an unfriendly federal administration, a militarized deportation campaign, and a continuing cost-of-living crisis.

Quarterly newsletter from the UC Berkeley Labor Center.