Against the backdrop of cranes moving containers from an Evergreen vessel in the Port of Los Angeles, city and port officials gathered to celebrate the tentative labor agreement that puts thousands of workers back on the docks. But everyone agreed that the ports can’t afford protracted labor negotiations again. “The competition we need to worry
Chevron has announced it will move 100 jobs from its San Ramon corporate headquarters to Houston this year. Last year, Chevron announced it was transferring 400 jobs from San Ramon to Houston. As of April 2014, Chevron's San Ramon workforce numbered 3,500 people. The jobs, in the oil giant's human resources department, are non-union and
An ongoing labor dispute embroiling ports across the West Coast has taken a bite out of agricultural trade across California's Central Valley. Some in the food and logistics industry fear a permanent loss of overseas business. Since July, the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have entered an increasingly bitter dispute
California has one of the nation's largest concentrations of "advanced industry" workers, but a new study points out that the state still faces big challenges in Stockton, Fresno, the Inland Empire and elsewhere. The study from the Brookings Institution zeros in on clusters of high-skill industries such as those in Silicon Valley, saying they are