Your contribution will play a crucial role in ensuring our success next year as we strive to create healthy and safe neighborhoods, foster just cities, and promote a vibrant democracy that benefits everyone.
Your contribution will play a crucial role in ensuring our success next year as we strive to create healthy and safe neighborhoods, foster just cities, and promote a vibrant democracy that benefits everyone.
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OUR 2024 VISION
Winning Big For Working Families
Building Inclusive Democracy
We believe democracy works best when all voices are heard. This year we’re accelerating our civic engagement efforts to ensure no Santa Clara County resident is excluded from our democratic process. Since January 2024, we’ve already engaged more than 10,000 low-propensity voters in Santa Clara County about elections, corporate accountability, support for fast food workers, and public health.
But that’s not all — following the victory against big money in politics last year, we’re launching a campaign for Democracy Dollars — a tool that will empower San José residents to actively participate in local politics, even in the face of formidable corporate and real estate influences.
A Stable Home for Every Family
In the face of San José’s rapid growth, worsening poverty and income gap, and the region’s growing eviction crisis, we’re rising up for working families struggling to find affordable housing. We’re part of a growing coalition of local advocates backing a housing bond measure aimed at bringing billions of dollars towards making housing more affordable in Santa Clara County.
This is more than a campaign; it’s a commitment to building homes, preserving communities, and securing a hopeful future for all.
Fair Futures for Fast Food Workers
San José’s fast-food industry employs nearly 13,000 cooks and cashiers — 8 in 10 are folks of color, and 7 in 10 are women. These workers are vital to the billion-dollar sector, and they deserve more than a paycheck — they deserve dignity and respect on the job.
We’re pushing for reform that ensures that fast food workers have the same rights on the job, access to full-time work and benefits, and opportunities for advancement so that they can take care of their families and look forward to better futures for themselves and their children.
Affordable Childcare for All
Picture a Santa Clara County where every child has access to affordable, quality childcare. That’s our vision. We’re fighting for affordable, quality childcare for all kids in Santa Clara County.
It’s not just about helping parents and supporting childcare workers. It’s about reducing poverty, boosting community safety, and strengthening our economy.
Join us in building the future in Santa Clara County.
Working Partnerships USA: 2023 Year in Review
2023 AT A GLANCE
OUR 2023 IMPACT
Building Inclusive Democracy
- Reached up to 5000 community members in San José through year round civic engagement campaigns around housing and local services
- Moved the SJ City Council to take decisive action concerning campaign finance practices, fortifying our local democracy and protecting City Hall from the influence of powerful special interests.
Driving Key Legislative Wins
- Mobilized over 100 community members to take direct action that drove legislative wins around the city budget, wage theft, and housing justice.
- Expanded worker protections against wage theft across all public contracts.
- Secured a victory against real estate interest by ensuring funding for affordable housing in the city
Nurturing Thriving Futures
- Our Trades Orientation Program (TOP) graduated 77 students now armed with the skills to embark on a journey in the construction trades, secure coveted union positions, and construct a truly fulfilling career. Since its beginning in 2015, TOP has graduated more than 605 people from its industry recognized, one-year pre-apprenticeship training program that includes individualized coaching on job search, staying on the job, and career advancement helping ensure that over 87% of TOP graduates secure placements within one-year.
Elevating Worker Leaders
- The Fair Workplace Collaborative program empowered 1300 low-wage workers with knowledge on wages, rights, protections, and advancement, and connected about 450 workers to legal support to fight wage theft.
- The Worker Power Academy, equipped 30 workers across 3 industries with the skills and awareness necessary to effectively address unlawful conditions in their workplaces.
- The Care Workers Council, engaged 50+ care providers, Kaiser employees, and workers from diverse industries to champion improved labor standards and universal access to vital care. Earlier in the year, care workers from nine industries, both union and non-union, connected with a dozen elected representatives at a Worker Roundtable
- Six dedicated workers received Skills to Win training, while our expanding WhatsApp group symbolizes a surge in workers uniting and backing one another.
Championing Worker-Led Organizing
- City unions and local groups, armed with a report by Working Partnerships USA, successfully negotiated a contract that ensures a 14.5% pay raise over the next three years for thousands of city employees, without compromising the city budget.
- On the May 4th National Day of Action for #GigSafetyNow, we organized 80 rideshare drivers in a car caravan and marched to Uber’s San Francisco headquarters to demand safety on the job, living wages, and fair appeals process on deactivations for all of their drivers. We’re standing in solidarity and organizing here and across the country to fight for the rights that every worker deserves.
- Provided strategic support to worker and union led campaigns across Silicon Valley, including worker-led actions by Meta workers, Santa Clara County worker strike and SJ City Workers Strike.
Hear from Trades Orientation Program( (TOP) alumni Ronald and Jessica about their transformative journeys.
Hear from Trades Orientation Program( (TOP) alumni Ronald and Jessica about their transformative journeys.
Leslie Rodriguez, Board President, and Nick Palka, Silicon Valley Rising Canvasser, discuss their ongoing commitment to our mission.
Leslie Rodriguez, Board President, and Nick Palka, Silicon Valley Rising Canvasser, discuss their ongoing commitment to our mission.
