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Gov. Newsom Signs Bill to Eliminate Vote-by-Mail Elections and Secret Ballots for Farm Workers

May 16, 2023 7:26 amJune 13, 2025 7:12 am

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 113 authored by the Committee on Budget, into law Monday to eliminate vote-by-mail in elections by farm workers for union certification. This will usher in a “card check” system in which United Farm Workers labor...

California Employee Consumer Credit Reports

May 16, 2023 2:45 amMay 16, 2023 2:46 am

California’s Labor Code provides for employer use of consumer credit reports. These provisions are contained in Division 2, Part 3, Chapter 3.6, which was added in 2011 by Chapter 724. Labor Code Section 1024.5 prohibits an employer or prospective employer...

Bill To Ban Five Common Food Additives Passes Assembly

May 16, 2023 2:30 amMay 16, 2023 2:31 am

A bill that would ban five common food additives in California, including those commonly found in some candies, was passed by the Assembly on Monday, moving the bill to the Senate. Assembly Bill 418, authored by Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel (D-Woodland...

Julie Su Underling Calls Migrant Program He Oversees ‘The Purchase of Humans’

May 15, 2023 4:33 pmMay 15, 2023 4:34 pm

A senior Department of Labor staffer a few weeks ago claimed the H-2A migrant worker program “literally is the purchase of humans to perform difficult work under terrible conditions, sometimes including subhuman living conditions.” The staffer also claimed wages are...

Transgender-Industrial Complex: Profitable Child Sex Change ‘Industry’ is Mutating Children for Life

May 15, 2023 3:49 pmMay 17, 2023 3:27 pm

Not long ago, the sexualization of children in public schools was verboten. Abusers in the education system were actually prosecuted for luring a child for sex. Now, lawmakers like California’s Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) have authored legislation effectively legalizing...

The Uni-Party Isn’t Just Bad for Governance – It’s Bad for Society

May 15, 2023 10:15 amMay 15, 2023 10:16 am

We will take as a given for the purposes of this article that California has one actual political party. It is called the Democratic Party but could easily be called any number of things – the Bureaucratic Party, the Oligarch...

Liberation, Resistance, Intersectionality… A Critical Look at Existing Ethnic Studies Courses in California

May 15, 2023 7:42 amMay 16, 2023 9:03 pm

Many school districts in California have started teaching Ethnic Studies ahead of the state mandated timeline of 2025. This has come on the back of a multi-year movement to promote Ethnic Studies in K-12, a movement fraught with controversies and...