On Sept. 30, 2018, then Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 826 (SB 826), which requires publically traded companies that have their headquarters in California to have at least one board member who identifies as a woman by the end of 2019. According to a new academic study, companies that meet these criteria have increased […]

Last month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted unanimously to allow carriers to block robocalls by default. This move will allow carriers to take more action against those pesky automated calls. Robocalls are the number one issue consumers file complaints about to the agency. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai had proposed the blocking rule two weeks […]

According to a report release in February, California consumers missed out on at least $308 million in nickel deposits on cans and bottles last year. The report was released by the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, which claims that it’s increasingly difficult to find a place to recycle the bottles and cans to receive the nickel […]

College athletes in California could soon be getting paid, thanks to a proposed legislation introduced earlier this year. However, the money will not be coming from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). State Senator Nancy Skinner introduced Senate Bill 206 (SB 206), which would allow players to get compensated for sponsorship opportunities. The proposed legislation […]

Two proposed bills are looking to address the backlog of untested sexual assault kits in California. One of the bills is Senate Bill 1449, authored by state Senator Connie Leyva, who says the bill would change existing law by changing the word “should” to “shall,” when referring to listed time frames for submitting and analyzing […]

Last month, the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced that over 1 million undocumented immigrants have received driver’s licenses. Monterey County Supervisor Luis Alejo stated, Immigrants are getting tested, licensed and insured and this is making our roads safer for everyone. Today, we see the law working the way it was intended to and has […]

By Luis Alvarado, President of Familias Unidas de California Governor Brown has seen it all before. Severe drought conditions that plagued the state in 1976-1977 looked eerily familiar to the California’s most recent drought. On both occasions, Governor Brown took the initiative to declaring a state of emergency. In 2014, with California experiencing such unpredictable […]

In late March, an eight-page memo was released in which Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the citizenship question would be included in the next census, which takes place in 2020, to better enforce the Voting Rights Act and to prevent racial discrimination in voting. This will be the first time in 70 years that the […]

In March, the California Air Resource Board banned chemicals used in industrial refrigeration equipment that are also a potent greenhouse gas. The chemicals are known as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and are a type of refrigerant used in supermarket refrigerators, chilled vending machines, Slurpee machines, frozen yogurt dispensers, and foams used in construction. The chemicals have been […]

 Farmworkers should have the right to be represented. If abandoned by a union, farmworkers deserve the right to vote. The right to have their voices heard and the right to be represented. Don’t take this choice away from them. Farmworkers deserve to have the same rights and protections as every other worker.