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Facebook’s commitment to contract service workers provides a lifeline to thousands of Black and Latinx families amid the pandemic
Federal Trade Commission and states Attorneys General inquiries into potential anti-competitive practices...
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Serving Silicon Valley
This morning, we released a new study on Silicon Valley’s “invisible workforce” — the cafeteria workers...
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Together we are powerful
Today, I am angry, and I am hopeful. I am angry that giant corporations and billionaires can spend...
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Racial capitalism is on the ballot
This election, a generation-defining set of propositions is on the ballot in California. We will decide...
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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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Can new technology improve healthcare for patients and workers?
COVID-19 has made so clear that healthcare workers — whether janitors, nursing assistants, registered...
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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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San José Council votes for paid sick leave
Last night, the San José City Council voted unanimously to develop the most expansive emergency paid...
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San José advances paid sick leave
Ensuring that everyone has paid sick days is a vital part of how we flatten the COVID-19 curve and...
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San José City Councilmembers introduce paid sick leave policy to respond to COVID-19
All working people need to be able to take paid time off if they or their family gets sick, especially...
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Tech companies take action on coronavirus
Paid sick leave and affordable healthcare are basic human rights, and they are essential to protecting public health as we grapple with the coronavirus. Yesterday, major tech corporations including Facebook, Twitter, Cisco, Microsoft, and Google committed that hourly and subcontracted service workers who need to stay home will be fully paid during coronavirus...
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3 lessons from the Future of Workers summit
When working people have a seat at the table, we all win: we build a more inclusive economy, we strengthen...
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Get the facts on Uber & Lyft's deceptive ballot measure
This morning, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and other gig corporations filed a deceptive ballot initiative...
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$35 million for high-road construction careers
Yesterday, Governor Newsom signed the 2019-20 California State Budget. Beyond the big headline items...
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Facebook raises standards for contract workers in tech
This week, Facebook announced that its subcontracted workforce will soon benefit from a higher minimum wage and better benefits. This policy squarely positions Facebook as a global leader in providing good jobs for its full workforce, and recognizes that a good job is about more than a just a wage – it’s about providing for the health and well...
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California can be a leader in making sure innovation works for all of us
If we want the jobs of tomorrow to be good jobs, working people need to be at the table negotiating...
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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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The Price of Innovation for Silicon Valley’s Workers
If we want tech growth to create widespread prosperity, we need to shift the rules that determine...
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Why Silicon Valley is getting poorer
Silicon Valley’s economy is booming. Yet nearly 9 in 10 jobs here pay lower wages today than they...
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What will autonomous trucks mean for truckers?
Robots won't take all our jobs. But our new study finds they could turn middle-class jobs into low...
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A big win for Silicon Valley security officers
After more than five years of negotiations, actions, delegations, and more, thousands of security officers at Silicon Valley tech companies like Facebook and Google will get pay increases, higher healthcare contributions and paid holidays after ratifying their first ever union contract! Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West...
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"Voice your displeasure outside"
Last week, so many people attended our rally before the City of San Jose's public meeting about a...
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A win for good construction jobs
Last night, the San Jose City Council passed a groundbreaking set of policies to raise job quality...
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Crisis and opportunity in Silicon Valley construction
Construction is one of the fastest growing industries in Silicon Valley, yet thousands of construction...
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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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Building Opportunity
Over the next five years, the city of San Jose plans to spend $1.42 billion on public construction...
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Cafeteria workers at Facebook organize
Our Silicon Valley Rising campaign is about inspiring the tech industry to build an inclusive middle...
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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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Stand with Tech Workers
Yesterday, tech engineers and programmers rallied alongside Silicon Valley Rising’s coalition of tech...
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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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3,000 tech security officers organize
The past week has brought outrageous attacks on our neighbors and our values. But it also brought a huge victory for working families — one that shows how we fight back and resist Trump. On Saturday, 3,000 security officers who protect the campuses of Facebook, Cisco, Genentech, and other tech campuses won union recognition with SEIU United Service Workers West...
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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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Cafeteria workers at Intel win union vote
Yesterday afternoon, contracted cafeteria workers at Intel’s Santa Clara headquarters won their vote to join UNITE HERE Local 19. Following key wins by janitors, security officers and shuttle bus drivers, this victory for food service workers — the fastest growing subcontracted industry that serves the tech sector — breaks new ground for Silicon Valley Rising...
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Big win on career pathways
The Valley Transportation Authority Board just took a groundbreaking vote that will open up career opportunities on over $4 billion in construction projects for local community members who are struggling to find good, family-supporting jobs. This victory has been nearly five years in the making. We're proud to have led this effort via our Construction Careers Initiative...
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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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The tech industry's invisible workforce
Today we released a new research brief, Tech's Invisible Workforce, which reveals the breathtaking scale and depth of a decades-long trend driving inequality in Silicon Valley. Anyone working hard to get by in this region knows that rising rents and incomes that don't keep up can make it seem harder every day. This new brief points to a key reason: in the...
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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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