Labor Center

Grocery store workers in Berkeley will now receive an additional $5 of hazard pay per hour after Berkeley City Council unanimously voted to pass an ordinance regarding the pay Tuesday.

Improved affordability may be paramount to making universal health care a reality in California, according to a report released by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education.

50 years ago, the federal government ordered a commission to investigate the cause of race riots that erupted across the United States in 1967, and led to the deaths of over 80 people. Their findings, called the Kerner Report, were groundbreaking — the riots resulted from black frustration at an unjust and oppressive economic structure.