Join us in-person or on Zoom for a conversation with Starbucks organizer Jaz Brisack.

Join us for a free documentary film screening and talk with director Abigail Disney. Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley Labor Center, Students for Labor Action, and the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law.

Apply by February 15! The UC Berkeley Labor Center offers PAID internships to graduate and undergraduate students, who learn how to organize and do research to support social and economic justice for workers in California. The program has two tracks: “Learn Organizing Skills” and “Applied Research and Policy.”

Ken Jacobs is keeping an eye on Peet’s. A key next step, he said, will be for the recently unionized workers to draft their demands ahead of negotiations. Depending on how the company approaches these developments, the first round of contract bargaining can be a very tough one for the unionizing workers.

This brief examines pension benefits for public servants in Sonoma County in terms of their role in employee compensation, the evolving financial status of pension systems, the impact of pension reform on costs, and how different pension systems in the county and surrounding Bay Area region stack up against each other in terms of protection from inflation during retirement.

This blog post outlines the assistance offered by the recently-established Child Care Providers United California Workers Health Care Fund, summarizes recent findings from a David Binder Research/ California Health Care Foundation survey that underscore the need for this new health care investment for family child care providers, and discusses how the program will improve affordability for providers and benefit California as a whole.

This report explores how governments use technology, what drives technology adoption, and how technologies affect public sector workers and the delivery of public services. Using examples across local, state, and federal governments, the report finds that transparency and accountability have lagged behind rapid technology adoption in the wake of COVID-19, and that public sector workers play a critical role in ensuring that technology is used to strengthen the ability of governments to provide quality and equitable public services.

Berkeley Blog post. Employers are increasingly using digital technologies to hire, manage, and monitor workers, largely without any regulation. But on January 1, California took a first step towards worker data rights when new amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect and covered workers at large businesses.

The UC Berkeley Labor Center has an opening for a senior policy researcher for a project focused on power structure analysis.