The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - The California School Employees Association is the largest union for classified staff. Each community college district negotiates with the local branche s of these unions. Community college districts and their local unions make key compensation decisions, including salary decisions, through collective bargaining.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - As a group, represented employees (including various other staff positions and union ‑represented academic employees) saw their salaries increase by 6.7  percent each year over the last ten years. After accounting for workforce growth, salary growth largely matched inflation, with little to no growth in inflation ‑adjusted wages for core ‑funded employees over the past decade.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2026-27 Budget: California State University

Feb 24, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: California State University Union of American Physicians and Dentists — a International Union of Operating Engineers — a — a a Less than 0.5 percent. Note: Table excludes Executive and Management Personnel, Confidential Classes, Excluded Classes, nonacademic student employees, other intermittent employees, and faculty teaching in extension, special sessions, and summer sessions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5142

The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 23, 2026 - This brief provides our analysis of the Governor’s 2026-27 budget proposals related to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2026-27 Budget: Framework for Approaching the Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture Budget

Feb 10, 2026 - In 2024 ‑25, the state began to reduce its firefighter duty week from a 72 ‑hour workweek to a 66 ‑hour workweek, consistent with a 2022 memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the state and the CalFire firefighters ’ union.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

Large health sector labor organizations’ political activities. [Ballot]

Nov 14, 2025 - A union is a common type of labor organization that represents employees ’ interests in collective bargaining, grievance processes, or other labor relations issues between an employer and its employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-021

California’s relationship with the United States of America. [Ballot]

Sep 30, 2025 - White that the initial act admitting a state to the Union “was final. ” The court said: “There was no place for reconsideration, or revocation, except through revolution, or through consent of the states. ” Initiatives and Constitutional Revisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-010

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - The disagreement primarily stems from union-raised pay equity concerns between two sets of employees: (1)  between Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) and Unit 10 rank-and-file workers and (2)  between unit 10 rank-and-file workers and their supervisors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - In that decision, PERB defines a side letter to mean “an agreement between an employer and union that typically: (1) modifies, clarifies or interprets an existing provision in an MOU; or (2) addresses issues of interest to the parties that are not otherwise covered by the MOU.”
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - OPEB = Other Post ‑Employment Benefits and Local 1000 = Nine bargaining units represented by Service Employee International Union, Local 1000: Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21. Telework Stipend.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064