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The Labor Center prepares tools and resources that can be used by labor educators, activists, and researchers. Many of our tools and resources accompany individual publications, illustrating and presenting our primary findings. Tools and resources below include: COVID-19 Resources, Webinars & Panel Discussions, Minimum Wage & Living Wage Resources, Interactive Tools, Health Care Resources, Workers’ Rights & Organizing Resources, and Videos and Infographics about our research and programs.

COVID-19 Resources

July 12, 2021

COVID-19 Series: Resources, Data, and Analysis for California

July 12, 2021 COVID-19: Local Labor Standard Policies in California
December 3, 2020 The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Workers in California: An Overview of Research to Date
October 21, 2020 Public Sector Impacts of the Great Recession and COVID-19

Webinars & Panel Discussions

June 2021
Essential Infrastructure: Leveraging Worker Voice and Employer Engagement in Pandemic Response
August 3, 2020
WEBINAR: California’s public sector: Lessons from the Great Recession for the COVID-19 response
October 6, 2020
Webinar: Local strategies to protect public jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic
Sep 18, 2018
Labor in the Climate Transition Keynote Address: Richard Trumka & Sharan Burrow
May 1, 2020
Webinar: COVID-19 Impacts on the California Economy

Minimum Wage & Living Wage Resources

July 12, 2021

Inventory of US City and County Minimum Wage Ordinances

July 7, 2015 California City and County Living Wage Ordinances
July 7, 2015 Organizations Working on Minimum Wage and Living Wage
July 7, 2015 Living Wage and Self-Sufficiency Tools and Data

Interactive Tools

2018

Data Explorer: Low Wage Work in California

2018

Interactive Map: Public Assistance Expenditures for Working Families by State

2015

How many Californians will be newly eligible for Medi-Cal and Covered California subsidies?

Health Care Resources

March 23, 2021

Modified Adjusted Gross Income under the Affordable Care Act – UPDATED WITH INFORMATION FOR COVID-19 POLICIES

July 1, 2014

Affordable Care Act: Summary of Provisions Affecting Employer-Sponsored Insurance

Workers' Rights & Organizing Resources

May 6, 2021

Turning the Tables: Participation and Power in Negotiations

April 25, 2021

“Hey, the Boss Just Called Me Into the Office!” The Weingarten Decision and the Right to Representation on the Job

January 6, 2017

California Workers’ Rights: A Manual of Job Rights, Protections and Remedies

August 23, 2013

Work, Money and Power: Unions in the 21st Century

Videos

August 2020

Seeding Justice: Labor Summer at 20 and Growing

Jul 10, 2018

The Union Effect in California

May 7, 2019

Investing in Early Care and Education in CA

Nov 13, 2017

California is Working

Nov 14, 2016

Join the National Black Worker Center Project

Nov 4, 2013

REPORT: Reversing Wage Erosion to Restore Good Jobs at American Airports

Infographics

Retirement Insecurity in California

CA Health Care Expansion

Do Meal Kits Deliver Low-Wage, Dead-End Jobs?

Demand, Funding, and Workers in Home Care and Early Education in US

High Cost of Low Wages in Fast Food

High Public Cost of Low Wages

Producing Poverty: Low Wages in Manufacturing

Minimum wage increases boost CA retirement security

Myths vs. Facts about California low-wage workers