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"content": "\u003cp>When Antoinette Martinez rolls her cart through the produce section of the FoodMaxx in Watsonville, her 5-year-old son, Caden, often asks for strawberries and blueberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes Martinez bends, but usually she sticks to the produce on sale: Roma tomatoes for 69 cents a pound, cucumbers at three-for-99 cents. And banana bunches are relatively cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s not under a dollar, then I don’t buy it,” Martinez said, bypassing $2 lettuce as Caden clambered into her grocery cart. “It’s about stretching the dollar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food budget isn’t as tight as it used to be since Martinez, a single mother, got a job at the Second Harvest Food Bank in Santa Cruz County. She helps people sign up for food stamps, known in California as CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between her $2,380 monthly paycheck and about $100 she receives in CalFresh, Martinez can make it through the month without her or Caden ever going hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Jessica Bartholow, a policy advocate for the Western Center on Law and Poverty']'There’s actually no evidence that making someone hungrier makes them less dependent on public benefits. And there’s plenty of evidence showing the opposite.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2019/07/23/usda-proposes-close-snap-automatic-eligibility-loophole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new proposal from the Trump administration\u003c/a>, Martinez and her son would lose their food stamps. So would many clients she helps at the food bank, along with an estimated 3.1 million Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians are likely to be hit particularly hard. Here’s why:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rule, announced last week, would undo the ability of states to provide food stamps to households that have incomes above the federal food stamp limit — 130% of the federal poverty line — but hefty expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would have the biggest impact in states like California that have raised the minimum wage to try to chase the skyrocketing costs of housing. As California’s minimum wage creeps toward $15 per hour by 2023, many more workers could be bumped off food stamps when their monthly incomes rise above the federal limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under current law, a California family of two with a gross monthly income between 130% and 200% of the federal poverty level — or between $1,784 and $2,744 — can qualify to receive CalFresh as long as their net income after housing, child care or medical costs falls under 100% of the poverty level, or $1,372.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Martinez falls right into that bracket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule would also cut the benefit for families who have savings or assets above a federal limit that many states, including California, currently waive. That limit — $2,250 for most families — is only slightly over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/california-rent-report-rentonomics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">median monthly rent\u003c/a> for a two-bedroom apartment in California ($2,110) and about half that of a two-bedroom in San Francisco ($4,730).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that states like California are a target on this,” said Jessica Bartholow, a policy advocate for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwj566-t9d_jAhXUJzQIHSkyCP8QFjAAegQIBRAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwclp.org%2F&usg=AOvVaw0WrfpyNihAEfYYUe7C7r-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Center on Law and Poverty\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764606\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11764606\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoinette Martinez uses CalFresh to pay for her groceries at FoodMaxx on July 26, 2019. The food she purchases today is expected to last her and her 5-year-old for at least a week. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said that the proposal to eliminate what he called a “loophole” would reduce fraud and save the federal government money — more than $9 billion over the next five years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/07/24/2019-15670/revision-of-categorical-eligibility-in-the-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a federal estimate\u003c/a>. The proposal could go into effect following a 60-day public comment period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our job is to make sure folks have the tools they need to move away from (food stamp) dependency… and preserve the benefits for those most in need,” Perdue said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates counter that the move would largely cut benefits for working families who spend large chunks of their paychecks on housing and caretaking costs for young children or ill or disabled family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s actually no evidence that making someone hungrier makes them less dependent on public benefits. And there’s plenty of evidence showing the opposite,” said Bartholow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"food-stamps\" label=\"More coverage of public benefits\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Western Center estimates that some 250,000 Californians could lose CalFresh, based on estimates made when California expanded eligibility in 2008 under Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and again in 2013 under Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, children in those families could lose automatic eligibility for free lunches at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal to cut food stamps is the latest in a series of Trump administration initiatives to curtail government benefits for low-income people, including a rule that would \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/01/707681965/more-than-750-000-could-lose-food-stamps-under-trump-administration-proposal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tighten food stamp work requirements\u003c/a>, another to block some legal immigrants from getting a green card if they are\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2018/12/california-ag-labels-public-charge-unconstitutional-immigration-change/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> deemed likely to use public services\u003c/a>, and another to adjust the way the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/2019/06/a-vaccine-show-down-a-tax-bill-wildfire-costs-and-poverty/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal poverty measure is calculated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those other proposed rules have cleared their comment periods, but the Trump administration has yet to impose them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opposition from California’s Democratic leaders to the latest proposal was swift and predictable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is not a state in the country that is probably more aggressive in pushing back from a litigation perspective, so that will be analyzed by the lawyers,” Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/newsompgeownership/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CalMatters\u003c/a>. A spokesman for Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/04/california-sues-trump-more-becerra-lawsuit-tracker-update/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued the Trump administration over 50 times\u003c/a> thus far, said his office was reviewing the proposal. (CalMatters is tracking those lawsuits \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/03/becerra-v-trump-california-using-courts-fight-administration/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. 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We were barely surviving but we’re not going to be able to survive if [President Trump] continues to push this.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez and her son have now been housed for two years. She said she’s close to finishing her associate degree in human services at Cabrillo College and dreams of being a case manager for a non-profit, helping others battle addiction and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worries about what the food stamp proposal would mean for her and her growing son. 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How far will California -- the first state in the nation to approve $15 minimum wage and a state that has set an ambitious goal to put 1.5 million zero emissions vehicles on the road by 2025 -- go in order to graft its blue values onto the green sector?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In politics, your oldest friends are your best friends,” said Dan Schnur, former head of California’s campaign watchdog agency and now a professor at the University of Southern California. “The tech people may have come to Sacramento with a lot of money and with an agenda that dovetails with the governor and legislators’ policy priorities, but they’re still the new guys on the block. Labor’s been there for a long, long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now state regulators -- at both the state Air Resources Board and the Labor & Workforce Development Agency -- will hold public hearings and draft rules for certifying automakers who want their vehicles to qualify for California rebates. The Legislature will then need to approve those.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the points of contention:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>What is “fair and responsible” to auto workers?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How will the state weigh wage and benefit standards, or training and safety requirements, against manufacturing costs?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How will the state certify vehicles made outside of California or even out of the country, such as in Mexico and China, where wages are lower and labor regulations are less stringent? Or will automakers self-police by adhering to a code of conduct?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Dean Florez, a former Democratic state lawmaker and a member of the air board, said California can have both labor protections and environmental leadership as the state charts new territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shouldn’t be using public money to fund or support companies that do not meet basic worker protections,” Florez said. “We shouldn’t undercut the labor protections that we have fought for, for so many years. And I think that there is a danger in doing so; I think we would lose the confidence of the public for environmental leadership in the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s new requirement will apply to all automakers, but it couldn’t have come at a worse time for Tesla, a company that prides itself on innovation and disrupting the status quo. When plant workers went public with complaints about \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@moran2017j/time-for-tesla-to-listen-ab5c6259fc88\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">low pay, long hours and unsafe conditions\u003c/a>, Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk labeled labor’s tactics “\u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2017/02/24/tesla-union-elon-musk-addresses-employees/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disingenuous or outright false\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While making $17 to $21 an hour is above minimum wage, Tesla employee Jose Moran noted that a living wage in the San Francisco Bay Area is a lot higher -- around $28. Musk responded that Tesla’s compensation package is higher than General Motors, Ford and Fiat when including Tesla’s employee stock program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company wouldn’t comment now, beyond referring back to what its policy director Sanjay Ranchod told lawmakers at a September hearing: “The company is committed to protecting the health and safety of its workers, and we are committed to continue and to make progress towards our goal of becoming the safest auto factory in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the nation’s newest automaker, Tesla is also on track to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/evs-from-tesla-and-gm-may-start-losing-their-tax-credits\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the first\u003c/a> to max out on a federal tax credit of up to $7,500 per vehicle. And with its Model 3 sedans pitched as its affordable electric car at $35,000, Tesla will need California’s rebate more than ever to compete against other electric cars such as the Nissan Leaf or Chevrolet Bolt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business boosters wonder why the state would single out clean-energy vehicles over gasoline cars for greater scrutiny when \u003ca href=\"https://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/zevprog/zevprog.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">40 percent\u003c/a> of the state’s greenhouse gases come from tailpipe emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They worry Sacramento’s pro-labor stance will dissuade companies from locating or expanding in California. Already, Tesla located its first battery factory just outside the state line in Sparks, Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians say they want good-paying jobs, and to grow manufacturing and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, “and yet, we’re in the ironic place where Tesla is being attacked by some elected officials relative to whether or not their workers are unionized,” said Carl Guardino, head of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a trade association representing nearly 400 Silicon Valley employers, including Tesla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is home to about 10,000 auto industry workers, virtually all from Tesla. That’s compared to 38,000 in Michigan, 24,000 in Kentucky and 20,000 in Ohio, according to the U.S. Labor Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iagauto.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union representatives say the goal is not to slow the production of clean energy vehicles. Rather, they maintain, if taxpayer money is being used to help sell cars, then it’s up to the state to make sure it results in good-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is all part of our work at the labor movement to make sure there’s accountability for public investments,” said Angie Wei, an influential lobbyist for the California Labor Federation, the umbrella group for unions including the UAW. “If we’re going to put taxpayer money into it, then we’d sure better be getting something out of it for jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union also is trying to maintain its role as the auto industry makes big bets on electric vehicles. Just this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/business/energy-environment/volvo-hybrid-electric-car.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volvo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/10/02/death-of-diesel-begins-as-gm-announces-plans-for-all-electric-future/?utm_term=.89c8dd93f339\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GM\u003c/a> announced plans to phase out conventional engines. The union can also use a win in labor-friendly California after losing an organizing effort at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/05/business/nissan-united-auto-workers-union-mississippi.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nissan plant in Mississippi\u003c/a>, a right-to-work state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth noting the Nummi plant that Tesla took over in Fremont was represented by the union before the joint venture between GM and Toyota closed in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is about Tesla and it isn’t about Tesla,” Wei said. “We had a gas-and-combustion industry that for decades created good middle-class jobs. They’re now being replaced by electric vehicles. This is our new economy, and with major public investment. The question is are we going to allow the auto industry to create and maintain middle class jobs? Or are they going to become the next Walmartization of the economy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento has placed itself at the forefront of cleaning up the environment. Gov. Jerry Brown and fellow Democratic lawmakers have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/leaving-europe-brown-says-hes-talked-enough-wants-get-something-done/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pitched California as a model to the world\u003c/a> for reducing air pollution and greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change in direct response to the Trump administration’s anti-regulatory philosophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California has also had a longstanding relationship with labor unions, stepping up the minimum wage and offering access to paid sick and family leave. In recent years, the California Labor Federation has successfully pushed legislation to protect immigrant workers from threats of deportation and expanded authority for the state to go after employers who skirt overtime or minimum-wage laws. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobbying reports show Tesla spent $189,237 on lobbying in the 3-month cycle during which the bill was debated, compared to $103,351 for the labor federation. But labor’s might comes also from being able to mobilize its members on issues and during elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers who struggled to prioritize the interests of two political allies will have more to soul-searching to do next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638714\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11638714\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600-375x563.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Catura, 33, a battery pack line worker at Tesla. \u003ccite>(Penni Gladstone for CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic Sen. Scott Weiner of San Francisco, who has a record of advancing the green economy and supporting prevailing wage to maintain union pay on public works projects, said he was unhappy that the so called “Tesla rule” had been inserted at the last minute. “This is significant and important enough that it should be vetted through a normal legislative process with public scrutiny. That to me is the best way to come to the right solution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His fellow Democratic lawmaker and San Franciscan Phil Ting, who chairs the Assembly Budget Committee and authored the measure, insisted it strikes “a good middle ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could have said you’re not going to get any money unless your workforce is unionized. That could have been something we inserted. We didn’t,” Ting said in an interview. “Having said that, we also could have done nothing. So if you look at the two extremes where we could done nothing or we could have dictated the type of workforce, I think this is the middle of those extremes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the decision to unionize remains up to workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Catura, 33, a battery pack line worker who has been at Tesla for nearly four years, said he supports joining the union because it would mean a higher wage and seniority for him. As the son of a postal worker, Catura said he has been disappointed that he has been passed over for promotions because supervisors can play favorites. He said he started at $17 an hour and now makes $21 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catura has one message for Elon Musk: “I would tell him, ‘Hey man, scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. Give us more than just a bone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the waning hours of the legislative session, Democrats pushed through new labor \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB134\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">requirements\u003c/a> widely viewed as retaliation against \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla\u003c/a>, the electric car maker embroiled in a union-organizing campaign at its Fremont plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor unions got lawmakers to insert two sentences into a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/cap-and-trade-in-two-and-half-minutes-video/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cap-and-trade\u003c/a> funding \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB134\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bill\u003c/a> requiring automakers to be certified “as fair and responsible in the the treatment of their workers” before their customers can obtain up to $2,500 from California’s clean vehicle rebate program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Democrats openly wrestled with the concern that the United Automobile Workers, which is trying to maintain its role as the auto industry makes big bets on electric vehicles -- was expanding its unionization campaign from the factory floor to the Senate floor. Sen. Steve Glazer of Orinda said the state should not “hold our environmental projects hostage to a fight with one progressive employer.” Sen. Connie Leyva of Chino countered that California shouldn’t want companies to succeed at the expense of workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with regulators starting to draft the new rules, a lingering question remains. How far will California -- the first state in the nation to approve $15 minimum wage and a state that has set an ambitious goal to put 1.5 million zero emissions vehicles on the road by 2025 -- go in order to graft its blue values onto the green sector?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In politics, your oldest friends are your best friends,” said Dan Schnur, former head of California’s campaign watchdog agency and now a professor at the University of Southern California. “The tech people may have come to Sacramento with a lot of money and with an agenda that dovetails with the governor and legislators’ policy priorities, but they’re still the new guys on the block. Labor’s been there for a long, long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now state regulators -- at both the state Air Resources Board and the Labor & Workforce Development Agency -- will hold public hearings and draft rules for certifying automakers who want their vehicles to qualify for California rebates. The Legislature will then need to approve those.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the points of contention:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>What is “fair and responsible” to auto workers?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How will the state weigh wage and benefit standards, or training and safety requirements, against manufacturing costs?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How will the state certify vehicles made outside of California or even out of the country, such as in Mexico and China, where wages are lower and labor regulations are less stringent? Or will automakers self-police by adhering to a code of conduct?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Dean Florez, a former Democratic state lawmaker and a member of the air board, said California can have both labor protections and environmental leadership as the state charts new territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shouldn’t be using public money to fund or support companies that do not meet basic worker protections,” Florez said. “We shouldn’t undercut the labor protections that we have fought for, for so many years. And I think that there is a danger in doing so; I think we would lose the confidence of the public for environmental leadership in the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s new requirement will apply to all automakers, but it couldn’t have come at a worse time for Tesla, a company that prides itself on innovation and disrupting the status quo. When plant workers went public with complaints about \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@moran2017j/time-for-tesla-to-listen-ab5c6259fc88\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">low pay, long hours and unsafe conditions\u003c/a>, Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk labeled labor’s tactics “\u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2017/02/24/tesla-union-elon-musk-addresses-employees/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disingenuous or outright false\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While making $17 to $21 an hour is above minimum wage, Tesla employee Jose Moran noted that a living wage in the San Francisco Bay Area is a lot higher -- around $28. Musk responded that Tesla’s compensation package is higher than General Motors, Ford and Fiat when including Tesla’s employee stock program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company wouldn’t comment now, beyond referring back to what its policy director Sanjay Ranchod told lawmakers at a September hearing: “The company is committed to protecting the health and safety of its workers, and we are committed to continue and to make progress towards our goal of becoming the safest auto factory in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the nation’s newest automaker, Tesla is also on track to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/evs-from-tesla-and-gm-may-start-losing-their-tax-credits\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the first\u003c/a> to max out on a federal tax credit of up to $7,500 per vehicle. And with its Model 3 sedans pitched as its affordable electric car at $35,000, Tesla will need California’s rebate more than ever to compete against other electric cars such as the Nissan Leaf or Chevrolet Bolt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business boosters wonder why the state would single out clean-energy vehicles over gasoline cars for greater scrutiny when \u003ca href=\"https://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/zevprog/zevprog.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">40 percent\u003c/a> of the state’s greenhouse gases come from tailpipe emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They worry Sacramento’s pro-labor stance will dissuade companies from locating or expanding in California. Already, Tesla located its first battery factory just outside the state line in Sparks, Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians say they want good-paying jobs, and to grow manufacturing and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, “and yet, we’re in the ironic place where Tesla is being attacked by some elected officials relative to whether or not their workers are unionized,” said Carl Guardino, head of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a trade association representing nearly 400 Silicon Valley employers, including Tesla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is home to about 10,000 auto industry workers, virtually all from Tesla. That’s compared to 38,000 in Michigan, 24,000 in Kentucky and 20,000 in Ohio, according to the U.S. Labor Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iagauto.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union representatives say the goal is not to slow the production of clean energy vehicles. Rather, they maintain, if taxpayer money is being used to help sell cars, then it’s up to the state to make sure it results in good-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is all part of our work at the labor movement to make sure there’s accountability for public investments,” said Angie Wei, an influential lobbyist for the California Labor Federation, the umbrella group for unions including the UAW. “If we’re going to put taxpayer money into it, then we’d sure better be getting something out of it for jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union also is trying to maintain its role as the auto industry makes big bets on electric vehicles. Just this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/business/energy-environment/volvo-hybrid-electric-car.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volvo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/10/02/death-of-diesel-begins-as-gm-announces-plans-for-all-electric-future/?utm_term=.89c8dd93f339\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GM\u003c/a> announced plans to phase out conventional engines. The union can also use a win in labor-friendly California after losing an organizing effort at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/05/business/nissan-united-auto-workers-union-mississippi.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nissan plant in Mississippi\u003c/a>, a right-to-work state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth noting the Nummi plant that Tesla took over in Fremont was represented by the union before the joint venture between GM and Toyota closed in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is about Tesla and it isn’t about Tesla,” Wei said. “We had a gas-and-combustion industry that for decades created good middle-class jobs. They’re now being replaced by electric vehicles. This is our new economy, and with major public investment. The question is are we going to allow the auto industry to create and maintain middle class jobs? Or are they going to become the next Walmartization of the economy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento has placed itself at the forefront of cleaning up the environment. Gov. Jerry Brown and fellow Democratic lawmakers have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/leaving-europe-brown-says-hes-talked-enough-wants-get-something-done/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pitched California as a model to the world\u003c/a> for reducing air pollution and greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change in direct response to the Trump administration’s anti-regulatory philosophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California has also had a longstanding relationship with labor unions, stepping up the minimum wage and offering access to paid sick and family leave. In recent years, the California Labor Federation has successfully pushed legislation to protect immigrant workers from threats of deportation and expanded authority for the state to go after employers who skirt overtime or minimum-wage laws. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobbying reports show Tesla spent $189,237 on lobbying in the 3-month cycle during which the bill was debated, compared to $103,351 for the labor federation. But labor’s might comes also from being able to mobilize its members on issues and during elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers who struggled to prioritize the interests of two political allies will have more to soul-searching to do next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638714\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11638714\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600-375x563.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Catura, 33, a battery pack line worker at Tesla. \u003ccite>(Penni Gladstone for CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic Sen. Scott Weiner of San Francisco, who has a record of advancing the green economy and supporting prevailing wage to maintain union pay on public works projects, said he was unhappy that the so called “Tesla rule” had been inserted at the last minute. “This is significant and important enough that it should be vetted through a normal legislative process with public scrutiny. That to me is the best way to come to the right solution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His fellow Democratic lawmaker and San Franciscan Phil Ting, who chairs the Assembly Budget Committee and authored the measure, insisted it strikes “a good middle ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could have said you’re not going to get any money unless your workforce is unionized. That could have been something we inserted. We didn’t,” Ting said in an interview. “Having said that, we also could have done nothing. So if you look at the two extremes where we could done nothing or we could have dictated the type of workforce, I think this is the middle of those extremes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the decision to unionize remains up to workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Catura, 33, a battery pack line worker who has been at Tesla for nearly four years, said he supports joining the union because it would mean a higher wage and seniority for him. As the son of a postal worker, Catura said he has been disappointed that he has been passed over for promotions because supervisors can play favorites. He said he started at $17 an hour and now makes $21 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catura has one message for Elon Musk: “I would tell him, ‘Hey man, scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. Give us more than just a bone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And we’re hoping that he’s able to answer some very tough questions about protecting workers, and the role of the secretary of Labor,” said California Labor Federation spokesman Steve Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re reserving judgment for the time being until those questions are asked and answered. 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Talent was helping Puzder, a long-time friend, prepare for what was sure to be a bruising hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the people opposing him now are in a year or two going to say; this guy is a lot better than we thought because he’s an honest and caring person and he’s going to enforce the law and do everything he can to create jobs and I think a lot of people in Washington are going to like that,” said Talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder relocated to Southern California from St. Louis in the 1990s, hired by Carl’s Jr founder\u003ca href=\"http://www.ckr.com/about_history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Carl Karcher\u003c/a> to help get the franchise back on solid financial footing. The conservative, anti-abortion Catholic was eventually named CEO. 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Probably for the best, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Barbara Independent \u003c/a>newspaper columnist \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.com/staff/nick-welsh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Welsh\u003c/a>. Puzder’s cultivated bubble of privacy was probably about to burst wide open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sort of cynical joke about Santa Barbara is; oh it’s Saturday, let’s go to the farmers market, let’s have brunch and then we’re going to go protest Trump,” laughs Welsh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pudzer would have been a very good target for anti-trump demonstrations; people would have been in front of his house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder also clashed with many Republicans over his views on immigration. Earlier this month he acknowledged hiring an undocumented housekeeper to work at his Montecito home. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Less than 24 hours after President Trump’s first choice for U.S. secretary of Labor \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/15/trump-labor-nominee-andrew-puzder-withdraws-first-cabinet-pick-to-fall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dropped out of the running\u003c/a>, Trump introduced Florida attorney and former National Labor Relations Board member \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHNiVvpcrgs\">Andrew Acosta \u003c/a>as his next pick to be the nation’s top labor chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acosta, dean of \u003ca href=\"https://law.fiu.edu/\">Florida International University’s law school\u003c/a>, is the first Latino to be nominated for a cabinet position in the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, the Harvard-educated Republican was appointed by President George W. Bush to be the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some labor groups in California said they are cautiously optimistic about the new choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319956\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11319956 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-800x950.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Acosta, dean of Florida International University’s law school, is President Trump's new pick for Labor secretary.\" width=\"800\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-800x950.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-160x190.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-1020x1212.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-1180x1402.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-960x1141.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-240x285.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-375x446.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-520x618.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Acosta, dean of Florida International University’s law school, is President Trump’s new pick for Labor secretary. \u003ccite>(Florida International University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At the very least we know Mr. Acosta has some experience with labor law. And we’re hoping that he’s able to answer some very tough questions about protecting workers, and the role of the secretary of Labor,” said California Labor Federation spokesman Steve Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But certainly this is light years away from where we were last week with Puzder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s first choice for the cabinet post, \u003ca href=\"http://andy.puzder.com/\">Andrew Puzder,\u003c/a> had become mired in personal scandals and controversies over treatment of employees working in the fast food chains overseen by Puzder’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ckr.com/about.html\">CKE Restaurants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder started building his vast fast food empire as chief of Southern California-based Carl’s Jr. The Missouri-born former trial attorney took the company way beyond its humble hotdog cart origins to build\u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/company-741487-puzder-carl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> CKE Restaurants\u003c/a> which now also includes the Hardee’s and Green Burrito chains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His confirmation hearing had been postponed for months as Puzder apparently struggled to disentangle himself from his financial holdings and deal with mounting opposition from labor groups and even some within the Republican ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Puzder prepared for this week’s scuttled confirmation hearing, graphic details of alleged spousal abuse from the 1980s resurfaced. And scores of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuqV4XfARMQ\">protesters rallied outside Carl’s Jr restaurants\u003c/a> from Anaheim to New York opposing his confirmation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor activists are especially aggrieved over Puzder’s opposition to minimum wage hikes and workplace violations racked up by CKE Restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His entire record as a business man is about undermining and ignoring those very legal protections that he’d be in position to enforce (as U.S. Labor Secretary) and that makes him uniquely unqualified to be labor secretary,” said Roxana Tynan director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.laane.org/\">Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy \u003c/a>upon hearing news of Puzder’s withdrawal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really glad that that message got through to at least some of the senators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11320153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-800x493.jpg\" alt=\"Fast-food workers protest Andrew Puzder Labor secretary nominee on January 26, 2017 in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"493\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11320153\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-800x493.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-1180x727.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-960x592.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-240x148.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-375x231.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-520x320.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fast-food workers protest Andrew Puzder Labor secretary nominee on January 26, 2017 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Puzder pulled out of the running when it was clear he may not have enough Republican votes to be confirmed. He is the first major Trump cabinet nominee to withdraw before a confirmation hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview earlier this week former \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/james_talent/300096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican Senator Jim Talent\u003c/a> of Missouri seemed confident of confirmation despite the mounting trouble. 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He’s credited with expanding its fleet of restaurants and overseeing a controversial ad campaign featuring half-naked girls chowing down on dripping Carl’s Jr burgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder was also a frequent guest on cable news programs offering conservative analysis and opinion on various issues including opposition to a higher federal minimum wage and President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at home in the tony, celebrity studded community of Montecito along the Santa Barbara Coast, Puzder flew under the radar. Several local Republicans contacted for this story were either unaware that Puzder lived in their midst or rarely saw him around town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Puzder pulled up stakes and relocated his family to Tennessee. He also closed CKE corporate offices near Santa Barbara. Probably for the best, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Barbara Independent \u003c/a>newspaper columnist \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.com/staff/nick-welsh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Welsh\u003c/a>. Puzder’s cultivated bubble of privacy was probably about to burst wide open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sort of cynical joke about Santa Barbara is; oh it’s Saturday, let’s go to the farmers market, let’s have brunch and then we’re going to go protest Trump,” laughs Welsh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pudzer would have been a very good target for anti-trump demonstrations; people would have been in front of his house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder also clashed with many Republicans over his views on immigration. Earlier this month he acknowledged hiring an undocumented housekeeper to work at his Montecito home. 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