Tag Archives : living wage

Mar 23, 2015

Policy Watch: Your weekly tip sheet for what’s going on in your community

San Jose  Expansion of Disadvantage Business Enterprise goals Date/time/location item will be heard:  March 25, 2015, 1:30 pm Memo from Liccardo, Herrera, Kalra & Peralez to approve the proposed overall Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) participation goal as a minimum, while making every effort to surpass the goal; Work with community stakeholders, such as the Minority Business Consortium, ethnic/minority Chambers of Commerce,…

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Nov 17, 2014

From an Educator’s Perspective, How a Living Wage Helps Students

I attended private Catholic schools in Ohio for 18 years.  I have taught in public schools in California for 20 years.  Each year I take students from Live Oak High School to a three-day program, Camp Everytown, during which we participate in a privilege exercise.  In this exercise, you move up if you have received some sort of privilege (such…

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The Valley Movement to Improve Wage Equity

Sunnyvale is the latest municipality to boost the earning potential of its lowest paid workers.  The City Council passed a $10.30 an hour minimum wage last night.  The ordinance had been in the works for several months, and the final vote came closely on the heels of Mountain View which raised its minimum to the same level last week.  Both…

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Allies Come Together For Living Wage in Santa Clara County

In the Valley of Plenty, one in three residents do not earn enough to get by. As the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors contemplates creating an ordinance requiring its contractors to pay employees a living wage, a new economic report was released Tuesday, Oct. 14, illustrating the profound and widening economic gap in Silicon Valley. Tweet

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Living Wage Challenge Issued to BOS

Santa Clara County Supervisors are being challenged to see what it’s like to try and make ends meet on a low wage job in Silicon Valley. County Supervisor Dave Cortese, who’s supporting a new, comprehensive living wage county law, took the challenge and said he understands more fully the difficulty low wage workers have surviving in one of the most…

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Jan 28, 2014

Starbucks’ Greed Versus San Jose’s Living Wage

The San Jose City Council will decide today whether to condone corporate greed and poverty-level wages for workers or apply city law to Starbucks and a large developer who want to lease property at the San Jose Convention Center.  San Jose would normally require businesses leasing the property to pay employees a living wage, but the City Manager’s Office recommends an…

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