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March 11, 2024

California’s fast food workers are getting a raise. But the labor-industry truce is fraying

Both sides billed the high-profile California fast food deal last year as a resolution to two years of escalating political tensions.  One of workers’ biggest wins in the Legislature during “hot labor summer,” […]

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March 5, 2024

Fact check: Did McCarty accept over $300,000 in state money for 10-minute Sacramento commute?

The first negative mailer of this year’s Sacramento mayoral race is now in voters’ mailboxes. Its target? Kevin McCarty. The mailer contains several claims about the Sacramento area California assemblyman. […]

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February 29, 2024

Editorial: Californians knead answers. Did Panera Bread get an exemption from $20 minimum wage law?

Even before Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the landmark law in September that would increase the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 per hour starting in April, there were some eyebrows raised over the […]

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