SACRAMENTO – In the face of the most anti-worker federal Administration in recent history, Governor Gavin Newsom today signed AB 288 by Assemblymember Tina McKinnor (D – Inglewood), which will protect California private sector employees’ right to join a union and address labor violations when the federal government fails to act in a timely manner.

Earlier this year, the federal government’s DOGE took a wrecking ball to our federal public sector workforce – making it more difficult for veterans to receive their benefits, more difficult for seniors to access their Social Security and Medicare benefits, more difficult to protect disabled students and more difficult to fight hunger and food insecurity.

“The current President is attempting to take a wrecking ball to public and private sector

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