Posts tagged AB 1505

    Op-ed / Commentary ● Labor Unions

    Opinion: Gavin Newsom’s mind-boggling record of giveaways to unions

    August 25, 2026 // Richer government contracts and expanded public employee benefits don’t come from nowhere. They land on taxpayers — the same taxpayers already staring down the nation’s highest gas prices, some of the steepest home insurance increases in the country and a cost of living that keeps pushing people out of the state entirely.

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