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State Sens. Caroline Menjivar and Toni Atkins talk with other lawmakers during a Senate floor session at the Capitol in Sacramento on Jan. 22, 2024.that California won’t have a woman representing the state in the U.S. Senate. of 120 after the 2022 election. And based on the primary results so far, it’s expected to increase to at least 55 women after the November election, according to Close the Gap California, an advocacy group that seeks to elect women to office.
“All incumbent LGBTQ+ legislators advanced out of their primaries and will likely be joined in November by out LGBTQ+ candidates running for open seats like Christopher Cabaldon, Sasha Renee Perez, Sabrina Cervantes, Lisa Middleton, Mark Gonzalez, Sade Elhawary, Jose Solache and Christy Holstege,” Jorge Reyes Salinas, spokesperson for Equality California, said via email.
But for all the demands of the job, the nail salon workforce — mostly comprised of Vietnamese immigrant women — include some of the worst paid workers in California. That’s according to a report on the state’s nail salon industry released Tuesday by the While there is dispute over how much workers are actually making, advocates and industry leaders alike say employers are misclassifying thousands of manicurists as independent contractors despite them being part of day-to-day salon operations where they are wearing uniforms and using salon supplies.
Legislation inspired by the report's findings would require in-language, culturally-appropriate training for those working in the nail salon industry on labor issues such as misclassification. Former workers who feel they have not been properly compensated are increasingly filing lawsuits or lodging complaints with the Department of Labor and the state’s unemployment agency, Vo said.
And also importantly, “I’m really able to express my creativity, and do very precise nail drawings of flowers and 3-D art,” Joanne Nguyen said. “It’s just more fun to be in this field.” "What I want to change for the future is for the younger generation of nail salon workers to have more benefits," Nguyen said.The vast majority of nail salons are mom-and-pops with five or fewer employees, where the employer often files nails alongside the workers.
“If you're taking care of your workers, and they're being paid properly, the higher the likelihood they'll stick around, which is what many salon owners want,” Vo said.In the meantime, efforts are underway to ensure that salon owners and workers are educated on labor issues, particularly the misclassification of employees as independent contractors .by Assemblymember Alex Lee, a San Jose Democrat, would require owners and workers take in-language trainings on labor laws.
North Hollywood Neighborhood Council member Jilian Burgos forced the better funded former Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian into a runoff in the 2nd District; Despite being outspent in nearly every race, progressive candidates in Los Angeles made a strong showing in the March 5 election, with several either winning outright or forcing opponents into runoffs.
Progressive candidates also argue their message is resonating with voters. It's a message that focuses on increasing tenants rights and more aggressively building affordable housing; decreasing the use of an anti-camping law against unhoused people; shrinking the size of the L.A. Police Department’s budget; expanding environmental protections; and increasing efforts to combat climate change.
Deputy public defenders performed well in superior court judge races, with one beating an incumbent judge and three others winning spots in November runoffs. Three of the four were part of a progressive slate called The Defenders of Justice. De León, who was elected to the city council in 2020, finished election night on March 5 ahead of his challengers, but that lead eroded over the next several days as more votes were counted. Jurado surpassed him in the vote count late last week.
Meghan Choi of Ground Game L.A., one of the groups whose members walked precincts for Jurado and other candidates, said her group and others have worked to build the progressive movement in Los Angeles. Jurado overcame massive spending on behalf of one of her opponents, Assemblymember Miguel Santiago, who ended up finishing third in the primary. Santiago’s campaign was bolstered by nearly $700,000 in independent expenditures on his behalf — mostly by labor unions who supported his work in Sacramento.
“Given how close the vote was, I have very little doubt that she would have probably ended up under 50% had it not been for what we did,” Levitus said.He pointed to guides from his own organization, Knock L.A. and L.A. Progressive, as well as from individual influencers like televisionT.V. writer and comedian Adam Conover, who is active in politics.The voter guides can be particularly influential in judicial races, where candidates had little money to get their message out.
Burgos also pointed to endorsements and volunteer help from L.A. Forward, Streets for All, Feel The Bern San Fernando Valley, and California Women’s List.“We made sure to knock doors, really have those conversations with people. Our people were passionate,” she said. Progressive L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón garnered just 25% of the vote and was forced into a runoff with former Republican state attorney general candidate Nathan Hochman. Gascón’s showing was low for an incumbent and it shows November may be a big challenge for him.
In it, Ballesteros lays out five areas for the chronically burned-out to focus on, and offers tools to the reader to begin to own their time again."Burnout is prolonged exhaustion," Ballesteros said. And it's this prolonged exhaustion that she identified as the hallmark sign of burnout, and because exhaustion pervades all aspects of ones life, it's usually clear when the pieces start to fall apart.
This doesn't mean it's always immediately obvious to us when we're experiencing burnout. But when you have the right resources at your fingertips, self-diagnosing burnout can be swift.getting her masters degree, Ballesteros said she reached a breaking point. When Ballesteros started to do some research into the feelings she was experiencing, she said the word that kept coming up was"burnout." Instead of simply addressing her own burnout and moving on, she decided to focus her professional work on creating a methodology that could address burn out with individuals, groups and organizations.
"Take a sincere look at your personal care and how you can make your life as easy as possible around the demands of work," she said. What can you automate and outsource? Can someone else walk your dog? Can you plan a Pilates class at 6 pm so you have to leave work?" Kristan Lund, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, told LAist that it’s all being fueled by a low-pressure system that’s been lingering along the California-Arizona border for about a week now.Lund said the upper-level, low-pressure system is causing instability in the atmosphere and bringing thunderstorms along with it.
Once the weather clears up Monday night, another slight chance of thunderstorms will be right behind it for Tuesday, but that’ll be more for the mountain and foothill areas of L.A. and Ventura counties.From left, protestors Carol Patterson, Natalie Conrad and Debi Davis try to engage with people during a “Vote No on Prop. 1” event at the state Capitol on Feb. 1, 2024.For one thing, the vote count tightened: As of late Saturday, Prop. 1 was leading by about 20,000 votes, with 7.
There’s another provision in state law that could also come into play: The governor can order a state-funded hand recount of all votes statewide if the official results show a difference between “yes” and “no” votes on a ballot measure of 1,000 votes or less, or 0.00015 percentage points or less. As of the latest vote count, the second threshold is 1,055 votes for Prop. 1.
He said just understanding negative dreams can reflect the grief you're experiencing. He said the difficult process is ever-changing and that means those associated dreams have the potential to evolve into something more positive. Taking a look ahead, the upper low will begin moving out the region come Tuesday, meaning forecasters are not ruling out the chance of light showers tomorrow morning through the afternoon. The upper low should move back to Arizona come Tuesday evening. Keep up to date by following theMonarch and Mourning Cloak and Common Buckeye, oh my! Spend an afternoon amongst the more than 30 native butterfly species in season at the Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion from now through the summer.
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