The Case for a $15/Hour Minimum Wage – Debunking the Myths
by Alan Pryor At last night’s City Council meeting a contingent of low wage workers, students, and…
Polling Shows Strong Support for Minimum Wage Hike in Sacramento
Already gearing up for a minimum wage ballot ordinance in Sacramento and Davis, the proponents of the…
Sunday Commentary II: Why Walmart’s Pay Increase Matters
The reaction to Walmart’s announcement last week that they were raising their wages for about half-million employees…
Beyond Raising the Minimum Wage
By Claire Goldstene In the ongoing struggle for worker justice, we may need a little 19th century…
Sunday Commentary II: $15 Minimum Wage Fight in Davis Part of Nationwide Struggle
The Wall Street Journal reports, “The nation’s battle over raising the minimum wage is set to shift…
$15 Minimum Wage Issue Likely to Return to Davis
Outgoing executive secretary of the Sacramento Central Labor Council Bill Camp told the Sacramento Business Journal on…
Documents Show Statewide Firefighters’ Union Leader Pressuring UCD to End Shared Services
In November of 2013, Senator Lois Wolk, Assemblymember Mariko Yamada, Supervisors Don Saylor and Jim Provenza, and…
An Open Letter to the Firefighters Local 3494
Firefighters Should Stop Being Part of the Problem and Start Being Part of Renewing This Community: It…
Analysis: As $13 Minimum Wage Passes State Senate, Is $15 in Davis Still Unthinkable?
It was a bare majority of 21 Senators, but SB 935, which would increase the minimum wage…
Fire and DCEA File Unfair Labor Practice Complaints Against City
The city council agenda showed two closed session items, with the city responding to unfair labor practices…
My View: Minimum Wage Increase Necessary
The Question is How Much and How Long a Ramp Up – The push to put a…
Minimum Wage Organizers Protest Outside of Target
About twenty organizers and union workers protested on Thursday outside of the Target Store on Second Street…
A Minimum Wage Hike Is Really Just Another Tax
by Jeff Boone Today, here in Davis, a group of people are attempting to gather enough signatures…
Raise the Wage Organizers Acknowledge Reaching Signature Threshold Is a Tough Task
Bernie Goldsmith, who has been spearheading the drive to put a $15 an hour minimum wage on…
Vanguard Commentary: Why the Rush to Stifle Debate on Minimum Wage Ordinance?
In the past few weeks there has been some considerable pushback, on the issue of a local…
Ballot Measure Seeks to Raise Minimum Wage in Davis to $15/ Hour
Petitioners Bernie Goldsmith, Joaquin Chavez and Ian Lee took the first step toward qualifying an initiative for…
Special Commentary: Pretending to Be Something I Am
Someone this week asked how I kept my sanity writing on the Vanguard every day and my…
Analysis: Impasse Savings Outstripped by Other Fire Reforms
The Vanguard has been arguing for the past few weeks that impasse does not go far enough. …
Sunday Commentary II: Labor’s Wounds Are Self-Inflicted
An editorial this week appearing in the Daily Democrat notes, “A new independent California poll showing a…
Special Commentary: In Search of the True Spirit of Labor Day
It was December of 2009. I had been leading the way, pushing for pension reform while speaking out against the local firefighters’ union. It’s probably not the best idea when your wife is a union organizer and you walk in union circles.
What happened next would be a huge wakeup call, at least for me. My former boss, when I worked in Sacramento, asked me if I would meet with some representatives from the California Labor Federation, as they had some concerns with my writing. My policy was and is that I’ll talk to anyone, and so across the street from the Capitol Building, I met with what turned out to be two representatives from the California Labor Federation.