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California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO: Starbucks & Amazon workers are speaking up about why CA needs #SB627 by Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas! When corporate chains close stores, the loss of jobs can be devastating. #SB627 protects displaced workers in these situations, ensuring they have transfer rights other stores.




LOS ANGELES (KNX) – A new bill introduced to the California senate would protect workers who are left displaced when corporate chains shut down.




Fast-food cooks and cashiers. Caretakers. Housekeepers. Hospital staff. School bus drivers. Custodians. State employees.

Workers from all kinds of industries are demanding more in wages and benefits in order to keep up with the rising cost of living in California.




Fast food cooks and cashiers. Building superintendent. housekeepers. hospital staff. school bus driver. manager. Officer.

Workers from all kinds of industries are demanding higher wages and benefits to keep up with the rising cost of living in California.




Leaders from across the state came to the Capitol on March 13 to tell senators about the progress and challenges of cannabis regulation at the Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development hearing.




Senate Bill 725 by Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) was amended to address grocery workers and successor establishments. Section 1 would amend Labor Code Section 2502 in order to add the words “purchase” and “acquisition” to the definition of “change in control.”




Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) has introduced a bill that would eliminate the deadline to apply for reducing old low-level, non-violent felony convictions to misdemeanors.




The UCLA Labor Center hosted a homecoming celebration on Friday in honor of Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) for her recent election to the California State Senate.