Author Archives : The Left Hook

Yesterday, the City of San Jose passed a groundbreaking set of policies to increase wages and workplace protections for construction workers and to promote local hiring and construction career opportunities. The policy passed 8-3 with Councilmembers Johnny Khamis, Dev Davis and Lan Diep voting no and the SVO (formerly the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce) aligning with the…

County of Santa Clara Update & approving poll for a potential sales tax extension & increase on Nov. 2018 ballot The Board will receive a report relating to possible extension and increase of the retail transactions (sales) and use tax for Santa Clara County. The Board will approve the Second Amendment to Agreement with EMC Research, Inc., relating to public…

A report released today by Working Partnerships USA finds that Silicon Valley is suffering from a lack of middle-income, family-supporting jobs for blue-collar construction workers. In Santa Clara County, the majority of job openings over the next 10 years are projected to pay either less than $40,000 per year, or more than $100,000 – with less than one-third being middle-wage,…

While Google and the City of San Jose have excluded the public from their negotiations, last night nearly 100 community members and leaders gathered at a public meeting to review and endorse a set of community demands for Google’s proposed San Jose mega-campus. Attendees assessed a set of proposed demands developed through eight months of consultation with San Jose communities. Around 1,500 San…