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CD10 Donated $165,000 in Taxpayer Dollars to Failed LA Jazz Festival
August 27, 2026 // City Councilmember Heather Hutt did not return an email to comment about the money that her district awarded to a charity that was run by Martin Ludlow, a former City Councilmember who served a two-year term that he left in 2005 to become the head of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. In that position, he was indicted on public corruption charges and pleaded guilty to diverting union funds into his 2023 City Council campaign.
Workers at LA stadium threaten World Cup strike amid anger over ICE
April 15, 2026 // Kurt Petersen, co-president of Unite Here Local 11, outlined a slew of union demands in a letter addressed to Fifa president Gianni Infantino and Stan Kroenke, the billionaire sports mogul who built the stadium
Powerful union demands ‘New Deal’ for the 2028 LA Olympic Games, threatens to strike
August 25, 2025 // They're asking the International Olympic Committee and private Olympics organizer LA28 to give $5 billion to build housing in Los Angeles. They're also demanding a citywide moratorium on Airbnb, and want the International Olympic Committee to end its partnership with the short-term rental giant. Unite Here Local 11 announced the "New Deal for Our Future" campaign alongside other unions and community groups Thursday morning outside the Coliseum, which will co-host the Opening Ceremonies.
RESEARCH: Minimum Wage Laws and App-Based Workers
March 30, 2024 // Rideshare apps are not too different. They generate revenue by taking a share of the total cost paid by riders to drivers. What is less clear is how large that fee is and how that fee has changed over time and across platforms. Rather than seeking out a rigid wage floor, a fee floor could stand in for the sense of fairness across platforms of different types. If workers on platforms are truly entrepreneurs, picking and choosing when, where, and how to allocate their labor across multiple platforms, doing more to ensure that markets offer a fair share of revenue can get the job done far more efficiently than attempting to mandate any particular amount.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom to name former Kamala Harris advisor to Feinstein Senate seat
October 2, 2023 // Butler's biography on the Emily's List says she currently lives in Maryland, but that line was deleted from the website Sunday evening within hours of the news of her appointment. Newsom's office told ABC News that Butler moved to the Washington D.C. area when she became president of EMILY's List in 2021 but she is a longtime resident and homeowner in California, and will re-register in the state before being sworn in.