A day after the San Leandro City Council voted on Tuesday to give grocery workers hazard pay, the California Grocers Association filed suit against the city.

Like Oakland, San Leandro’s City Council voted to give grocery workers a temporary $5 per hour pay raise, which the grocers’ association says is unconstitutional under state and federal law and violates the National Labor Relations Act.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.