In last April’s landmark, unanimous California Supreme Court ruling in the Dynamex case, the court delivered one of the most pro-worker decisions in decades, enshrining a simple A-B-C test that employers must comply with to designate workers as “independent contractors.” The ruling was made necessary by the growing trend of corporations calling workers contractors just so they wouldn’t be on the hook to provide basic protections like unemployment insurance or workers’ compensation.

Member Rusty "Russ" McCarthy passed away on 3-25-2019 at the age of 71. Russ was initiated into Local 728 on 5-20-1978 and retired in 2010.