News coverage featuring our members.
March to free the children and close the detention camps
San Francisco Living Wage coalition banner is seen in the September 16 March to save the children and close the detention camps.TV News Archive Quote https://t.co/m7MelnPtQL via @internetarchive — SF Living Wage (@SFLivingWage) November 15, 2019
Alcalde de Berkeley se une a manifestación en apoyo de Dreamers
Publicado lunes 14 de octubre de 2019 Una coalición de organizaciones laborales y de derechos de los inmigrantes, unida por el alcalde de Berkeley Jesse Arreguin y miembros del Consejo de la Ciudad, planean reunirse el lunes por la noche en el Ayuntamiento de Berkeley para instar al Senado a aprobar un proyecto de ley
May Day celebration march
The colorful signs and banners at Oakland’s May Day demonstration Tuesday seemed to champion an endless array of divergent causes, both local and national in scale. Better working conditions at the Telsa factory in Fremont. A living wage in San Francisco. The end of immigration policies that tear families apart. Read More
Budget and Finance Committee Hearing on Proposed $16.86 Minimum Compensation Ordinance Wage Rate
Workers are pushing forward to get the Board of Supervisors to address the crisis of low-wages as workers are priced out of the Bay Area. Read the SF Examiner article: click here to read article
Supervisor hearing on increase of the minimum compensation ordinance wage rate
Despite the moving testimony by workers, the members of the Budget and Finance Committee – Supervisors Malia Cohen, Sandra Fewer and Catherine Stefani – voted to delay a decision for two weeks as they discuss linking the cost to a revenue source. Listen to the KPFA broadcast: click to hear broadcast
Living Wage Coalition Co-Directors Speak on Radio About Effect on Wages of Free Trade and Immigration Policies
The San Francisco Living Wage Coalition participated in a delegation to the U.S./Mexico border to highlight the failures of the North America Free Trade Agreement in protecting the rights of workers to organize in Mexico, how the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership will further depress wages on both sides of the border, and how immigration policy is