SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Legislative workers at the California Capitol are close to forming their first labor union after state lawmakers approved a bill Wednesday that allows them to organize.
But despite California lawmakers' pro-union stance, the people who work for them have never been allowed to form a union.
An attempt to do so last year failed to get a vote in the state Assembly.
INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDEThe state Assembly approved a proposal to change the state constitution to remove exemptions to involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime.
The proposal would have to get a two-thirds vote in the state Senate, which doesn’t plan to vote on it until next year.
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