by Cooper | Oct 30, 2020 | Victories & Impacts
JwJ led the community labor campaign to hold Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical Center accountable to community and worker needs. CPMC is the largest hospital corporation and the second largest private employer in San Francisco. Our coalition celebrated a...
by Cooper | Oct 30, 2020 | Victories & Impacts
JwJ convened a coalition that won the landmark Retail Workers Bill of Rights in 2014, the first policy in the country requiring fair and predictable schedules and promoting full time employment, and job security for over 40,000 retail, restaurant and service workers...
by Cooper | Oct 30, 2020 | Victories & Impacts
To address surging income inequality in our city, JwJ convened a coalition of community and labor groups to lead the campaign to raise San Francisco’s minimum wage to $15 per hour. In 2014, an overwhelming 77% of voters supported Prop J creating the strongest...
by Cooper | Oct 30, 2020 | COVID & Just Recovery
After the pandemic hit, we passed critical legislation in SF establishing a public health emergency leave, providing 200,000 workers up to two weeks of paid leave. The ordinance provides among the most extensive emergency leave coverage for coronavirus related...
by Cooper | Oct 30, 2020 | COVID & Just Recovery
In March of 2020, JwJ co-founded Undocufund San Francisco with allied SF immigrant and worker rights organizations to provide critical aid to undocumented immigrants who were cut out of the social safety net. Many of our undocumented community members work in...
