The law is a favorite tool among the trade unions, which threaten developers with it to extract concessions. Any CEQA reform ...

After years of tussling with gig companies, California's labor unions want to once again expand workers' rights -- this time by allowing ride-hailing drivers to unionize.

The final showdown in that long-standing battle may have just arrived. A new bill by Oakland Democratic Assemblymember Buffy Wicks would exempt most urban housing developments from the 55-year-old ...

California lawmakers recently introduced a bill in the state assembly intended to fast track the production of homes.

Assembly Bill 1340, authored by Assemblymembers Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, and Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, is the first bill to propose broad changes to the ride-hailing business since the state ...