New Year’s Day — Thursday, Jan. 1 — marks the start of a new year and a new set of California laws. A wave of new California ...

According to the UC Berkeley Labor Center, here’s where workers earn more than the new state minimum of $16.90 per hour: ...

Workers strike KPC Health at six Southern California hospitals starting Jan. 12 over staffing, equipment and working conditions concerns.

Thirty-one thousand registered nurses and other frontline workers launched a five-day strike at Kaiser Permanente facilities in California and Hawaii Tuesday morning, following months of what they ...

New data shows employer-sponsored health insurance costs in California jumped sharply from 2022 to 2025, rising twice as fast ...

OAKLAND — Thousands of striking Kaiser Permanente California health care workers walked off the job Tuesday at medical centers in a push for higher pay and better staffing. The strike marks the ...

More than 40,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers began a strike Tuesday morning across the West Coast. The strike marks the largest action in the history of the union representing the workers, ...

() - Hundreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars are being saved by not hiring staff to fill vacant health care roles, the California State Auditor says.

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Although a nurses strike was averted, patient care and service workers at University of California health care facilities took to the picket lines this week. Nurses at University of California Health ...

A group of California healthcare workers were fired after a TikTok video showing them apparently mocking bodily fluid stains left on exam tables went viral. The since-deleted video shared over the ...

Lourdes Bernis, a community health worker who teaches about depression and anxiety, leads a discussion on Latino health issues during a neighborhood association meeting. The state has eliminated an ...