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The Inland Empire Labor Council is proud to say that we participated in the California Federation of Labor & the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California’s Joint Legislative Conference, Lobby Day, and pre-Primary Convention. Below you’ll see the fruits of previous years’ legislative conferences: Pro-worker legislation! Let’s get more passed in this next year.
Signed Senate Bills
- SB 294 (Reyes): Notice of Workers’ RightsRequires employers annually to provide workers with a notice of their state and federal labor and civil rights and that employers notify a worker’s emergency contact should the worker be detained as part of a law enforcement action.
Co-Sponsored by the California Federation of Labor Unions, Service Employees International Union California, and Central American Resource Center Los Angeles. - SB 513 (Durazo): Training RecordsRequires employers to keep information on training in personnel records and allows current and former workers to access those records.
Sponsored by the United Steelworkers District 12. - SB 809 (Durazo): Truck Driver MisclassificationEnsures that truck drivers are properly classified as employees and reimbursed for expenses.
Sponsored by the California Teamsters. - SB 838 (Durazo): Hotel Development AccountabilityCloses the loophole that allowed hotels to get streamlined approval as part of housing developments.
Sponsored by UNITE HERE International Union. - SB 840 (Limón): High-Speed Rail FundingAllocates $1 billion to fund high-speed rail construction.
Supported by the California Federation of Labor Unions and State Building and Construction Trades Council of California.
Signed Assembly Bills
- AB 283 (Haney): IHSS Employer-Employee Relations ActWould have enabled IHSS workers and their unions to collectively bargain with the state, not individual counties.
Sponsored by the United Domestic Workers/AFSCME Local 3930 and Service Employees International Union California. - AB 288 (McKinnor): California Right to Organize ActExpands the authority of the State to protect the right to organize in the private sector when the federal government is unable or unwilling.
Co-Sponsored by the California Federation of Labor Unions, California Teamsters, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Western States Section, and Service Employees International Union California. - AB 316 (Krell): AI Liability ProtectionsProhibits developers and deployers from asserting that an AI product acted autonomously as a legal defense.
Supported by the California Federation of Labor Unions and California Nurses Association/National Nurses United. - AB 339 (Ortega): Public Sector Contracting Out NoticeRequires local government to give the union advance notice of RFPs or contract renewals for private contractors.
Co-Sponsored by the California Federation of Labor Unions, Service Employees International Union California, and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees California. - AB 394 (Wilson): Transit Worker SafetyExtends existing penalties for battery of transit employees to cover more transit workers.
Sponsored by the Amalgamated Transit Union. - AB 538 (Berman): Public Works Prevailing WageIncreases transparency of payment of prevailing wage on public workers projects to improve compliance.
Sponsored by the California-Nevada Conference of Operating Engineers. - AB 692 (Kalra): Ban Worker Training RepaymentProhibits workplace training repayment contracts that require workers to pay back the cost to their employer.
Co-Sponsored by the California Federation of Labor Unions and California Nurses Association/National Nurses United. - AB 858 (Lee): Hospitality Worker Recall RightsExtends the sunset to ensure hospitality workers have the right to return to their jobs after shutdowns.
Co-Sponsored by the California Federation of Labor Unions and UNITE HERE International Union. - AB 1207 (Irwin): Cap and InvestReauthorizes the cap and invest program for clean infrastructure and transportation.
- AB 1340 (Berman/Wicks): TNC Drivers Labor Relations ActGrants drivers for transportation network companies to self-organize and collectively bargain.
Sponsored by the Service Employees International Union California.
