If the Staten Island union organizing efforts prove contagious, Amazon would start looking more like Starbucks, where more locations are voting to unionize every week. Amazon’s fight with its new union promises to be nothing less than a bitter, messy, drawn-out battle that could help determine the future of American work.

In a stunning announcement this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco is leading the prosecution of a Russia-based mastermind accused of running Hydra, the world’s largest and longest-running illegal 'darknet' crptocurrency market, which federal agencies say they have put out of business.

According to the plea agreement, Brooke Campbell Solis of Austin, Tex., acknowledged that she used these privileges to defraud her former employer and embezzle money from the company, which was not identified.

Between 2011 and 2019, Racho Jordanov, as President and CEO of JHL Biotech, obtained and possessed confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information from Genentech, and used it to accelerate the timeline for and to reduce the costs of JHL Biotech’s development and production of copies of Genentech products.

Charges filed last week allege that Dhirendra Prasad, 52 of Mountain House in San Joaquin County, committed federal felonies over more than a decade while employed at Apple.

The San Jose Downtown Association is undertaking a nationwide search to replace longtime executive director Scott Knies, who was promoted to chief executive officer last week. Knies will step down Nov. 1, 2022, after 34 years with the organization, as part of a planned succession anticipated in its August 2020 strategic plan.

People in the 60,000 households near the plant faced significant risks to their health and environment, the EPA said in a press release.

Gov. Gavin Newsom joined President Joe Biden as well as executives from the mineral mining and processing industry to announce both public and private investments in the mining of minerals like lithium and cobalt.

The federal Indictment alleges that the CEO of San Jose firm submitted fraudulent H-1B visa applications and laundered $1 million In fraud proceeds.

The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing lawsuit said Tesla's factory is a racially segregated workplace where Black workers are subjected to racial slurs and discriminated against in job assignments, discipline, pay and promotion.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law this week that requires large employers in California to offer workers up to 80 hours of COVID-related paid sick leave. But there’s a catch: The bill, which the Legislature passed on Feb. 7, doesn’t apply to small employers with 25 or fewer workers.

County Supervisor Joe Simitian said he wants the county to be more transparent and clarify whether violations involving Lehigh Cement Plant facilities require additional regulatory and/or legal action.

The real estate deal by the online retail giant marks its second acquisition in Gilroy and extends its footprint — and jobs potential — deeper into South Santa Clara County.

Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a San Jose Democrat who chairs the Assembly labor and employment committee, said that where labor organizing campaigns have failed in low-wage industries, the government needs to act. 

Away from the constant media frenzy surrounding the Trial of the Decade, jurors in the Holmes trial in San Jose dealt with the disruption to their lives.

Ash Kalra of San Jose leads a group of Democratic legislators that Thursday unveiled a package of bills to create a universal health care program funded by new taxes.