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California budget: Back to Square One, as disaster looms

January 9, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

he Gordian knot that is California’s budget process got a lot more complicated this week, as Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Jan. 6 vetoed a complex of compromise budget measures legislative Democrats sent him for signature, after...

Health workers strike for safe staffing, job security

November 1, 2008 By Marilyn Bechtel

Bright purple tee-shirts filled the plaza at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, as striking health care workers gathered to demand the highly profitable company improve staffing levels, stop contracting work out and drop proposed takeaways in...

Labor pushes minimum wage hikes

April 29, 2005 By Martha Hancock

To counter the anti-people program being put forward by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his corporate backers, the California Labor Federation is putting forward its own program for economic recovery.

Rocking Arnold’s world

April 1, 2005 By Joseph Hancock And Kelly McConnell

LOS ANGELES — When musical composer Aaron Copland was commissioned by the Works Projects Administration to write “Fanfare for the Common Man,” it must have been with public workers in mind.