Labor

San Benito County employees represented by Service Employees International Union Local 521 are protesting proposed budget cuts. Plus, new research shows that internet cables could lead to earlier tsunami warnings.

Indivisible Pájaro Valley and the Watsonville Film Festival are screening the documentary American Agitators this Friday. Plus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will stop publishing data on food insecurity—a problem that affects tens of thousands of people on the Central Coast.

A day of mourning in Santa Cruz for the thousands of children who have been killed in Gaza over the last two years. And, Monday marks 60 years since the Delano grape strike began in the Central Valley.

Santa Cruz County’s employment outlook isn't doing so well. And, as the new school year approaches, Monterey County schools are facing a nearly $25 million federal funding freeze to key programs that help students and their families.

In today's newscast, a researcher from Cal State Monterey Bay scrambles after a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant she was awarded was cancelled. And, two unions went on strike at UC Santa Cruz yesterday after the UC declared a system-wide hiring freeze.

KAZU’s Elena Neale-Sacks spoke with Steve McKay to make sense of this moment and what it means for the Monterey Bay area.

In today's newscast, thousands of professional and technical workers went on strike yesterday at UC campuses across the state including UC Santa Cruz. Plus, the director of the UCSC Center for Labor and Community discusses the importance of labor power at this political moment.

In today's newscast, Second Harvest of Santa Cruz County has learned that it is losing more than $350,000 in federal support. And, members of United Farm Workers and other unions in this area plan to join a Cesar Chavez Day march today in the Central Valley.

Cal State Monterey Bay union faculty members wore red and rallied ahead of the university’s budget town hall on Tuesday in an effort to make the administration aware of their opposition to proposed budget cuts.

In today's newscast, the Valley Transportation Authority strike enters a second week a UC Santa Cruz economist explains his new method for determining recessions and why the tool says the country is already in one.