What Would You Have Done, What Do I Do Now?!?

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Okay this is a particular long story. I was working with a company for two years and eight months before I quit... I've always prided myself in being an extremely hard worker. I like getting the job done! I usually only have to be told once when I make a mistake, and I learn not to do it again. About a year after I started working at my old job I started asking about benefits. I was told that I would have to work 30.00 hours a week to receive benefits. I was only working 29.75 hours, so I couldn't. Then the company started having problems with the turn around rate (obviously) and I was asked to visit different sites and work there as well as my regular scheduled hours. So I said okay, and did this for six months. Again I asked for benefits and instead of giving them to me they took some hours away. So I started looking for a new job, but I was in school and getting married so this was the perfect job to work around my schedule. In December I went to my boss and said I'm working 35 hours a week I need benefits. They put me on hold for about a month. In that month I announced to my co-workers that I was pregnant. This is why I really needed the benefits now. Things changed after this announcement. They asked me to work longer hours, alone (usually have a partner), and all of a sudden I was making countless mistakes (where there haven't been mistakes before). I was pulled into the office one day an accused of something for 1 hour in 30 minutes of something I didn't do. In the end I was crying, shaking, and extremely upset. I didn't admit to what they were saying I did. I didn't do it. I called my husband and he was extremely scared at first then upset. He told me to just quit, but I couldn't just quit. That afternoon we talked about me quitting my job and getting a new job. So I sent my boss an e-mail putting in my two weeks notice. Anyway, after I did that things got really bad. I to start doing the grunt work. Finally I just told them No, I will not do that!So here I am currently looking for a new job. I was hired last week pending my job history information. I didn't put my old boss' name down but some how my new boss got a hold of her. She told her that I wasn't a reliable worker, that they wouldn't hire me again, and that I was lazy. She said that I was disrespectful to her and argued all the time. Also that I liked to gossip. These are lies and cost me a really good job! What do I do? I worked my butt off at this company for almost three years. Keeping my nose down and staying out of trouble. I heard rumors before the incident that the owners were corrupt but I didn't pay attention. Turns out they've cost me six really good jobs. I just found out Friday this information. Now what? My girlfriend (who was a supervisor there) is going to let me use her number now as a reference for the company. But they need something to happen to them. One more thing. My last day, the head bosses told all staff not to throw me a good bye party (we usually do this for staff that has been there longer than six months). So my co-workers took me out to dinner instead. All of those that were at the party have been fired because they disobeyed an order. Isn't there a Federal Law or California Law that protects employees from all this abuse?