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Onward
Last week, while immigrant workers fasted on the Capitol’s doorstep, praying for the passage of AB...
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Why I caravaned to the state capitol today
Today, I caravaned with hundreds of workers from across the state to deliver a letter urging Governor...
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Job security for California's hardest-hit workers
We need job security for hundreds of thousands of service workers like me who have lost our jobs...
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Right of recall for workers advances to the Senate
Despite a massive corporate lobbying effort to kill the bill without a vote, yesterday the California...
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AB 3216 needs a Senate hearing
We are all stronger when everyone has what we need to care for ourselves and our loved ones during...
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AB 3216 passes the Assembly
California Assemblymembers just took a key step forward for working families by voting YES on AB 3216 - strengthening paid sick leave, family leave, and right of recall for workers most impacted by COVID-19. We are all stronger when everyone has what we need to care for ourselves and our loved ones during this pandemic and beyond. And thanks to your calls and emails...
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Paid sick days & workplace protections for all Californians
Our whole community is strongest when everyone has what they need to be healthy and safe. But too many working Californians have faced devastating losses without recourse or protections to ensure they can care for their families and come back strong. The California Assembly is voting now on a bill to strengthen worker protections. The...
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2 new proposals to protect CA workers
Our whole community is strongest when everyone has what they need to be healthy and safe. But too many working families — especially immigrant families and those providing essential services to our communities — have faced devastating losses without recourse or protections to ensure they can care for their families and come back strong. This week, South Bay...
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$15 minimum wage is now the law
As of January 1st, workers in eight cities in Santa Clara County are earning a minimum wage of at...
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An new way to fight wage theft
Three years ago, Magali was working 13-hour days, every day of the week at Los Pinitos restaurant...
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San Jose Council expands Opportunity to Work
Today, the San Jose City Council voted to develop a plan to cover City employees under the landmark...
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The Bay Area takes action on housing and good jobs
Last night, the Bay Area took a major step towards addressing three of the region’s most urgent challenges: housing, displacement, and growing income inequality. Following a multi-year grassroots campaign that brought together communities from all nine Bay Area counties, the regional planning agencies – known as the Metropolitan Transportation Commission...
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Job security wins in Santa Clara
The Santa Clara City Council has unanimously passed the first worker retention ordinance in Silicon...
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Opportunity to Work is now in effect
Today, San Jose’s Opportunity to Work ordinance went into effect. This policy will help tens of thousands...
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San Jose approves a $15 minimum wage by 2019
On Tuesday, the San Jose City Council voted unanimously to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 by 2019, three years before the state of California reaches that standard. San Jose — the 10th largest city in the nation and the capital of Silicon Valley — now joins five other Santa Clara County cities in acting on an unprecedented regional approach to jointly...
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Opportunity to Work Initiative heads to the ballot
We did it! Thanks to hundreds of community leaders and tens of thousands of voters, the Opportunity...
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Silicon Valley Officials Vote for Regional Minimum Wage of $15 by 2019
Last night the Cities Association of Santa Clara County, which convenes the 15 cities in the heart of Silicon Valley, voted overwhelmingly in favor of making a $15 minimum wage the region-wide policy by 2019, setting a timeline three years faster than the one set by the State of California in April. Though cities and states have...
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35,000 signatures for Opportunity to Work
The Opportunity to Work campaign continues to build momentum. Workers, clergy and community leaders...
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$15 by '19 for Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is one of the wealthiest and most expensive places to live in California, yet we are in a crisis of low wages and underemployment. Now is our moment to turn that around. The Sunnyvale City Council just voted Tuesday night to raise that city's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2018, and UC Berkeley released a report showing that a Silicon Valley regional...
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A Hidden Crisis: Underemployment in Silicon Valley
In one of the most prosperous regions in the country, far too many working people are barely scraping...
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Victory: $287 billion plan will prioritize good jobs and renter protections
Several billion dollars in transportation and land use planning funds flow to the San Francisco Bay Area each year – a projected $287 billion in the next 25 years. In a groundbreaking policy shift, the regional planning and transportation agencies that oversee these funds voted this week to adopt two new priorities: stemming...
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