Apr 23, 2015
With a goal of preventing and ending homelessness among U.S. military veterans by the end of 2015, Santa Clara County Board President Dave Cortese and mayors of Bay Area cities met with U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald on Wednesday, April 22, 2015, and pledged to step up efforts in their own communities. Tweet
Apr 22, 2015
Across the country, fair trade activists like the Sierra Club are raising our voices against putting harmful trade deals on the fast track to completion. At the same time, negotiators and corporate executives are meeting behind closed doors to write the rules of a massive new trade deal, the TransPacific Partnership or TPP, that would affect nearly every aspect of our lives: our jobs,…
Apr 21, 2015
Apple’s reversal of a policy banning workers who have a criminal record from working on its new Spaceship campus is a good start. But just a start. The company still has not replied to a letter from the leaders of Ironworkers Local 377, which supplies workers for the construction of the new campus, to explain the criteria for the “case by case…
Apr 20, 2015
Palo Alto Minimum Wage increase Palo Alto Policy and Services Committee To be heard: April 28, 2015 7:00pm Recommendation to adopt City-wide minimum wage of $10.30 effective July 1, 2015 and to be adjusted annually by CPI increases every January 1st. Tweet
Apr 16, 2015
Score one for democracy and transparency in government, thanks to freshman SJ council member Raul Peralez. The City Council voted unanimously on April 14 to adopt recommendations in his memo asking that City staff be required to show all the money available for the City’s General Fund when Council and community are reviewing the proposed budget. The memo also calls for the…
Apr 16, 2015
Hundreds demonstrated in the South Bay earlier this week to call attention to the need to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Those protests were among events across the country held to support better working conditions and wages for low wage workers. From the New York Times Most mornings last year, Terrance Wise left home before his three daughters…
Apr 16, 2015
Evan McMorris-Santoro BuzzFeed News Reporter Kate Nocera WASHINGTON — Last Thursday at noon, Jeff Johnson, president of the Washington State Labor Council, sat waiting for a call from the White House. It would be his first such call in 35 years of organizing. Johnson had been told by White House aides just 90 minutes before to expect the call. Tweet
Apr 9, 2015
Fairly priced clean water is considered to be a basic human right. Given all Californians are in a severe and historic drought, we must ask: What can be done to minimize the effects on the disadvantaged? Tweet
Apr 8, 2015
Former San Jose City Councilmember Madison Nguyen has set her sights on a seat in the California State Assembly. She plans to challenge former councilmate Ash Kalra, who has a $130,000 head start in the race. Tweet
Apr 8, 2015
He entered the race later than any other candidate, and with just three months to raise money and campaign Tim Orozco came out ahead. The candidate for San Jose City Council in District 4 is in first place with a 4 point lead over media executive Manh Nguyen and attorney Lan Diep in second and third place respectively. Tweet