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15th Annual Awards Dinner
The San Francisco Living Wage Coalition was born out of Labor’s efforts to work with the community in organizing low-wage workers. These efforts included using legislative strategies to improve their wages and working conditions, building a workers’ movement and creating the conditions for unionizing. Our efforts initiated a movement that led to ground-breaking local wage and benefit laws and, in conjunction with unions, organizing drives and union contracts.
Through the living wage laws, aka the Minimum Compensation Ordinance and Health Care Accountability Ordinance, wages and working conditions were dramatically improved for workers on city service contracts with for-profit businesses, at city-funded non-profit agencies and In Home Supportive Services, at the airport and on other city property, and in welfare-to-work programs. This laid the basis for the unionization of thousands of workers at the airport. This built a movement for subsequent ordinances that increased wages and provided sick leave and health care coverage to all workers in San Francisco, including the Minimum Wage Ordinance, which is among the highest in the country.
Our 15th Annual San Francisco Living Wage Coalition Awards Dinner will be held Friday, July 18th, 2025. We will be presenting the Labor Woman of the Year Award to Guillermina Castellanos, Co-Director of Nuevo Sol Day Laborer and Domestic Worker Center. We will be presenting the Labor Man of the Year Award to Francisco Herrera, Co-Director of Nuevo Sol. We also will be presenting the Union Leader of the Year Award to Lizzy Tapia, President of UNITE HERE Local 2.
The event will be in SEIU Local 1021’s San Francisco hall, located at 350 Rhode Island. There will be a reception at 6p.m. followed by a dinner and program at 6:30 p.m. with cultural and musical performances. This event is part of the month-long Labor Fest that commemorates the 1934 General Strike. To become a sponsor please use this registration form, click here. We look forward to your continuing support for economic justice.