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Kaiser also offered a blanket $21 per hour minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But union leaders last week rejected the company’s most recent offer. They said the new minimum would limit performance bonuses for frontline workers, arguing that will only result in increased turnover, further straining the workforce and diminishing the quality of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union is also seeking a $25 per hour minimum wage for employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pay bump would align with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB525\">a California bill\u003c/a> currently making its way through the Legislature that would increase all California health care workers’ minimum wage to $25 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature also recently approved a bill that would provide unemployment insurance benefits to workers on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nahid Bokaee, a Kaiser pharmacist\"]‘Our patients expect more from a health care system that reported $3 billion in profits in the first half of this year alone, and so do we.’[/pullquote]“Every one of these proposals from Kaiser will make staffing problems worse and continue to delay care to patients,” Dave Regan, president of SEIU-UHW, said in a press release announcing the vote. “Kaiser has failed to bargain in good faith with the caregivers, who are doing everything they can to protect patient safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser insists that it has continued to bargain in good faith. In an email, Kaiser refuted many of the claims the union made about their proposal. The company also pointed to rising costs for drugs, supplies and labor due to inflation, which has been “driving up the cost of health care as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the impasse, representatives for the Oakland-based health care giant said they are “confident” a deal can be reached by Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have two more bargaining sessions scheduled for next week. Our priority is to reach an agreement that ensures we can continue to provide market-competitive pay and outstanding benefits,” a spokesperson for Kaiser said in an email to KQED. “We are confident we’ll reach an agreement before the national agreement expires on Sept. 30 that strengthens our position as a best place to work and ensures that the high-quality care our members expect from us remains affordable and easy to access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.unioncoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2022-04_Report_Staffing-Survey-10.1_DIGITAL.pdf?emci=11db37e0-b5df-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&ceid=%7B%7BContactsEmailID%7D%7D\">union-led survey (PDF)\u003c/a> of about 33,000 Kaiser workers, more than 80% of respondents said they were in understaffed departments, and 65% said they had seen care delayed or denied to patients due to those staffing challenges. Nearly half said they regularly have to skip meals or breaks to keep up with their workloads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our patients expect more from a health care system that reported $3 billion in profits in the first half of this year alone, and so do we,” Nahid Bokaee, a Kaiser pharmacist in Sterling, Virginia, said in a recent press release about the looming strike vote. “Kaiser can afford to end this dangerous understaffing, but they choose not to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company claims it has filled 8,700 of the 10,000 positions it has committed to fill by the end of 2023.[aside postID=news_11960517 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1668439446-1020x683.jpg']The union representing Kaiser employees in California is part of the broader Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, which represents about 88,000 employees in seven states, including Colorado, Oregon and Washington, \u003ca href=\"https://www.koin.com/news/union-announces-overwhelming-support-for-kaiser-permanente-strike-authorization/\">where local unions have also recently approved going on strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest strike authorization vote comes amid an uptick in labor actions across the country, particularly within the health care industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929713/kaiser-mental-health-workers-appove-new-contract-ending-10-week-strike\">2,000 Kaiser mental health care workers in Northern California went on strike last year for 10 weeks\u003c/a> over many of the same staffing and pay issues that workers today are protesting. Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/california/23-health-care-workers-arrested-after-protesting-outside-kaiser-permanente-in-hollywood/\">23 health care workers were arrested\u003c/a> while protesting outside a Kaiser hospital in Hollywood. Nurses in Minnesota \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minnesota-nurses-strike-vote-2nd-time-2022-minnesota-nurses-association/\">voted twice\u003c/a> but ultimately avoided a strike in 2022, citing low pay and rapid turnover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Farida Jhabvala Romero contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Nearly 60,000 Kaiser health care workers voted in favor of a strike if an agreement isn’t reached by Sept. 30. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1694735123,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1067},"headData":{"title":"California Kaiser Workers Authorize Strike as Contract Negotiations Continue | KQED","description":"Nearly 60,000 Kaiser health care workers voted in favor of a strike if an agreement isn’t reached by Sept. 30. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11961243/california-kaiser-workers-authorize-strike-as-contract-negotiations-continue","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nearly 60,000 Kaiser Permanente workers, mostly based in California, voted overwhelming in favor of going on strike if a fair contract agreement is not reached by the end of September, setting the stage for what could be the largest health care industry walkout in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike authorization was supported by 98% of Kaiser workers — ranging from lab technicians to respiratory therapists to cooking staff — who are represented by SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, the union announced Thursday. It comes amid ongoing worker demands for significant pay raises and more robust staffing, as Kaiser and other large health care providers continue to struggle with severe understaffing and strained caseloads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being understaffed and being not appropriately compensated for the amount of work that they put on our plate, we had no choice but to collectively agree to authorize a strike,” said Rashaad Pritchett, who works as housekeeping aide at a Kaiser facility in Richmond, where he cleans and sanitizes operating rooms and other sensitive health space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11957005,news_11947640","label":"The Healthcare Staffing Crisis "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Born and raised in Richmond, Pritchett says his wages have failed to keep pace with inflation and the rising cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the next four years, we want to make sure that we will have livable wages. At the end of our career we want to make sure that we will be taken care of,” said Pritchett. “We are all fighting for what we believe is right. It’s not a vindictive approach, but it’s like, ‘OK, you have forced our collective bargaining hand.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers argue that staffing levels have sunk dangerously low as many practitioners have left the field because of burnout. Kaiser workers are calling on their employer to increase staffing levels in order to reduce workloads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers — some of whom are based in Oregon and Washington — are pushing for a 7% wage increase in the first two years of this next contract, and a 6.25% increase the following two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its proposal, Kaiser offered across-the-board wage increases of between 10–14% over four years, as well as a minimum performance bonus aimed to prevent any employees from receiving no payout. Kaiser also offered a blanket $21 per hour minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But union leaders last week rejected the company’s most recent offer. They said the new minimum would limit performance bonuses for frontline workers, arguing that will only result in increased turnover, further straining the workforce and diminishing the quality of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union is also seeking a $25 per hour minimum wage for employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pay bump would align with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB525\">a California bill\u003c/a> currently making its way through the Legislature that would increase all California health care workers’ minimum wage to $25 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature also recently approved a bill that would provide unemployment insurance benefits to workers on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Our patients expect more from a health care system that reported $3 billion in profits in the first half of this year alone, and so do we.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Nahid Bokaee, a Kaiser pharmacist","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Every one of these proposals from Kaiser will make staffing problems worse and continue to delay care to patients,” Dave Regan, president of SEIU-UHW, said in a press release announcing the vote. “Kaiser has failed to bargain in good faith with the caregivers, who are doing everything they can to protect patient safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser insists that it has continued to bargain in good faith. In an email, Kaiser refuted many of the claims the union made about their proposal. The company also pointed to rising costs for drugs, supplies and labor due to inflation, which has been “driving up the cost of health care as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the impasse, representatives for the Oakland-based health care giant said they are “confident” a deal can be reached by Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have two more bargaining sessions scheduled for next week. Our priority is to reach an agreement that ensures we can continue to provide market-competitive pay and outstanding benefits,” a spokesperson for Kaiser said in an email to KQED. “We are confident we’ll reach an agreement before the national agreement expires on Sept. 30 that strengthens our position as a best place to work and ensures that the high-quality care our members expect from us remains affordable and easy to access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.unioncoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2022-04_Report_Staffing-Survey-10.1_DIGITAL.pdf?emci=11db37e0-b5df-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&ceid=%7B%7BContactsEmailID%7D%7D\">union-led survey (PDF)\u003c/a> of about 33,000 Kaiser workers, more than 80% of respondents said they were in understaffed departments, and 65% said they had seen care delayed or denied to patients due to those staffing challenges. Nearly half said they regularly have to skip meals or breaks to keep up with their workloads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our patients expect more from a health care system that reported $3 billion in profits in the first half of this year alone, and so do we,” Nahid Bokaee, a Kaiser pharmacist in Sterling, Virginia, said in a recent press release about the looming strike vote. “Kaiser can afford to end this dangerous understaffing, but they choose not to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company claims it has filled 8,700 of the 10,000 positions it has committed to fill by the end of 2023.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11960517","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1668439446-1020x683.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The union representing Kaiser employees in California is part of the broader Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, which represents about 88,000 employees in seven states, including Colorado, Oregon and Washington, \u003ca href=\"https://www.koin.com/news/union-announces-overwhelming-support-for-kaiser-permanente-strike-authorization/\">where local unions have also recently approved going on strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest strike authorization vote comes amid an uptick in labor actions across the country, particularly within the health care industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929713/kaiser-mental-health-workers-appove-new-contract-ending-10-week-strike\">2,000 Kaiser mental health care workers in Northern California went on strike last year for 10 weeks\u003c/a> over many of the same staffing and pay issues that workers today are protesting. Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/california/23-health-care-workers-arrested-after-protesting-outside-kaiser-permanente-in-hollywood/\">23 health care workers were arrested\u003c/a> while protesting outside a Kaiser hospital in Hollywood. Nurses in Minnesota \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minnesota-nurses-strike-vote-2nd-time-2022-minnesota-nurses-association/\">voted twice\u003c/a> but ultimately avoided a strike in 2022, citing low pay and rapid turnover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Farida Jhabvala Romero contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11961243/california-kaiser-workers-authorize-strike-as-contract-negotiations-continue","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_18543","news_30262","news_21790","news_421","news_19904","news_20482","news_214","news_794"],"featImg":"news_11961244","label":"news"},"news_11928262":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11928262","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11928262","score":null,"sort":[1665544114000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"they-cant-live-on-their-desire-to-serve-others-more-bay-area-nonprofit-workers-are-joining-the-labor-movement","title":"'They Can't Live on Their Desire to Serve Others': More Bay Area Nonprofit Workers Are Joining the Labor Movement","publishDate":1665544114,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A growing number of Bay Area nonprofit workers have gone on strike or joined unions in recent months — a surge of labor organizing by the people who serve some of the region's most marginalized residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at Glide Foundation last week submitted a letter of intent to management stating that they planned to form a union, becoming the latest in a string of nonprofit employee groups to organize to ensure worker protections and a living wage. In doing so, workers at the nonprofit, which serves San Francisco's unhoused community, joined their counterparts at Hamilton Families, Impact Justice and Episcopal Community Services, all Bay Area nonprofits that unionized with the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11920638,news_11927383,news_11926218\"]Last month, employees of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic — already members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021 — ratified a new contract that included an average 22% pay raise following nine months of bargaining and a first-of-its-kind, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920638/tenderloin-housing-clinic-workers-strike-in-demand-for-higher-wages\">24-hour strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Bosio, union representative with OPEIU Local 29, said nonprofit workers have long been underpaid. That's not only compared with employees in the private sector, she said, but also with city employees with whom these workers often collaborate to serve unhoused and otherwise marginalized populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current movement, Bosio said, is a result of nonprofit staff taking a stand against being treated like \"second-class employees,\" and demanding their employers — and the cities they contract with — pay more attention to the welfare of workers who are providing vital services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Workers are coming to realize that they're in this work because they care about it, they care about the community ... but they can't live just on their desire to serve others,\" she said. \"They have to pay rent. They have to feed their kids. They have to be able to pay for gas and transit to get to work. And so they understand that they need a living wage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at Glide and other nonprofits have reached out to workers at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank — who joined OPEIU Local 29 in 2019 — for guidance as they jump-start their own organizing efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Citraro, a veteran employee of the food bank who now serves as a union steward, said staff there began to organize following a growing consensus that the organization's institutional problems were being ignored by management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People were just burnt out. There was tremendous turnover. It's one thing when people leave, and it's another thing when people just sit there and cry,\" she said. \"It was just such an unstable, unsustainable situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a volunteer sorts donated food for the SF Marin food bank\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers sort donated apples at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank. The organization's workers voted to unionize in 2020, winning raises and worker protections, following a growing sense among employees that management was ignoring institutional problems. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since workers at the food bank ratified their contract, \"people are really seeing that they have the ability to bring [an issue] to one of the stewards, and the stewards will escalate it and then they have the full force of the union behind them,\" Citraro said. \"And you just didn't have any protection if you tried to do that before. There was always the chance that you would just be retaliated against.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, San Francisco approved a budget that includes $27 million in discretionary general fund money to be used for a cost-of-living adjustment for nonprofit workers — including caseworkers, property managers and maintenance workers — and to lower case manager-to-client ratios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Amy Huntley, case manager, Compass Family Services\"]'Our workers aren't getting paid enough ... Basically anybody that works at this organization could end up in the situation that our clients end up in.'[/pullquote]But some nonprofit workers said the city's efforts barely scratch the surface of their needs. Sam Meredith, a social worker with the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, said in July that the raise ranges presented by the city \"still don't really address what we're fighting for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it took the strike to get the city's attention and their demands met. The contract that THC workers ratified in September included an average raise of 22%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees at Compass Family Services, another nonprofit that helps San Francisco residents find stable housing and economic stability, will vote in November on whether to form a union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our workers aren't getting paid enough [and don't have] good enough health benefits, child care and all that kind of stuff,\" said Amy Huntley, a case manager at the organization. \"Basically anybody that works [at] this organization could end up in the situation that our clients end up in.\" She added that management has been discouraging workers from voting to unionize, arguing that a union would add an extra layer to the organization and drastically change how the organization works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saba Mwine, managing director at USC's Homelessness Policy Research Institute, said many of the people who work in social service nonprofits also have experienced homelessness themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Folks working in this field are already going above and beyond. Just the fact that conditions are such that folks are needing to also organize on top of the work they're doing is unfortunate for us as a society,\" said Mwine. \"We ideally would really support their work robustly, because without that community of workers, there's no way that we're going to be able to end or even meaningfully address our homelessness crisis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928380\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A worker in a yellow jacket looks on at an unhoused person sleeping in a cardboard box on the street\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Glide employee tries to speak with a man who fell asleep on the street while waiting in line for a bed at the organization's shelter in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People working on the front lines of the homelessness crisis can experience \"secondary trauma\" from the stories they hear and situations they witness, she added. Many workers also have valid concerns about their own physical safety and \"a lack of training, professional development and advancement,\" said Mwine, pointing to \u003ca href=\"https://homeforgoodla.org/app/uploads/2022/09/UW-Current-State-Assessment_-Deliverable-2_8.26.22.pdf\">a recent report about conditions and retention issues\u003c/a> at organizations that serve the unhoused population in Los Angeles. \"I think there's a sort of psychic weight, because you feel the weight of the fact that homelessness is increasing despite your everyday efforts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, nonprofit workers' efforts align with several recent organized labor actions in the private sector. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11928188/mass-janitor-layoffs-at-meta-offices-trigger-open-ended-strike\">J\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11928188/mass-janitor-layoffs-at-meta-offices-trigger-open-ended-strike\">anitors at Meta went on strike\u003c/a> last week in response to mass layoffs, while restaurant employees at San Francisco International Airport successfully won a $5 raise and family health care following their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927383/pressure-from-sf-supes-helped-striking-sfo-restaurant-workers-win-a-deal\">three-day strike in September\u003c/a>. At Kaiser Permanente, some mental health care workers are entering Week 9 of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11925882/one-month-into-grinding-strike-negotiations-break-down-between-kaiser-permanente-and-mental-health-workers\">an open-ended strike\u003c/a> over what union representatives call an unsustainable workload and unsafe therapist-to-client ratios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those actions are in line with a resurgence of labor organizing nationwide, including high-profile efforts at major corporations like Amazon and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/02/1124680518/starbucks-union-busting-howard-schultz-nlrb\">Starbucks\u003c/a>. The National Labor Relations Board reported that workers filed more than 2,500 new union representation petitions in 2022 — a 53% spike from the 1,638 petitions filed by workers in 2021 and the highest number since 2016. And a recent Gallup poll found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120111276/labor-union-support-in-us\">support for unions in the U.S. is at a 57-year high\u003c/a>, with 71% of Americans stating they support labor unions, up from 64% in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Staff at organizations like Glide, the Tenderloin Housing Clinic and the SF-Marin Food Bank — nonprofits that serve marginalized populations — all have formed unions or gone on strike in recent months, demanding a living wage and better worker protections.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1666384313,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1246},"headData":{"title":"'They Can't Live on Their Desire to Serve Others': More Bay Area Nonprofit Workers Are Joining the Labor Movement | KQED","description":"Staff at organizations like Glide, the Tenderloin Housing Clinic and the SF-Marin Food Bank — nonprofits that serve marginalized populations — all have formed unions or gone on strike in recent months, demanding a living wage and better worker protections.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11928262 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11928262","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/10/11/they-cant-live-on-their-desire-to-serve-others-more-bay-area-nonprofit-workers-are-joining-the-labor-movement/","disqusTitle":"'They Can't Live on Their Desire to Serve Others': More Bay Area Nonprofit Workers Are Joining the Labor Movement","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/b30ae41b-11fa-433e-bfc6-af2a0141fbae/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11928262/they-cant-live-on-their-desire-to-serve-others-more-bay-area-nonprofit-workers-are-joining-the-labor-movement","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A growing number of Bay Area nonprofit workers have gone on strike or joined unions in recent months — a surge of labor organizing by the people who serve some of the region's most marginalized residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at Glide Foundation last week submitted a letter of intent to management stating that they planned to form a union, becoming the latest in a string of nonprofit employee groups to organize to ensure worker protections and a living wage. In doing so, workers at the nonprofit, which serves San Francisco's unhoused community, joined their counterparts at Hamilton Families, Impact Justice and Episcopal Community Services, all Bay Area nonprofits that unionized with the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11920638,news_11927383,news_11926218"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Last month, employees of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic — already members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021 — ratified a new contract that included an average 22% pay raise following nine months of bargaining and a first-of-its-kind, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920638/tenderloin-housing-clinic-workers-strike-in-demand-for-higher-wages\">24-hour strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Bosio, union representative with OPEIU Local 29, said nonprofit workers have long been underpaid. That's not only compared with employees in the private sector, she said, but also with city employees with whom these workers often collaborate to serve unhoused and otherwise marginalized populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current movement, Bosio said, is a result of nonprofit staff taking a stand against being treated like \"second-class employees,\" and demanding their employers — and the cities they contract with — pay more attention to the welfare of workers who are providing vital services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Workers are coming to realize that they're in this work because they care about it, they care about the community ... but they can't live just on their desire to serve others,\" she said. \"They have to pay rent. They have to feed their kids. They have to be able to pay for gas and transit to get to work. And so they understand that they need a living wage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at Glide and other nonprofits have reached out to workers at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank — who joined OPEIU Local 29 in 2019 — for guidance as they jump-start their own organizing efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Citraro, a veteran employee of the food bank who now serves as a union steward, said staff there began to organize following a growing consensus that the organization's institutional problems were being ignored by management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People were just burnt out. There was tremendous turnover. It's one thing when people leave, and it's another thing when people just sit there and cry,\" she said. \"It was just such an unstable, unsustainable situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a volunteer sorts donated food for the SF Marin food bank\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS42171_005_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9168-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers sort donated apples at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank. The organization's workers voted to unionize in 2020, winning raises and worker protections, following a growing sense among employees that management was ignoring institutional problems. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since workers at the food bank ratified their contract, \"people are really seeing that they have the ability to bring [an issue] to one of the stewards, and the stewards will escalate it and then they have the full force of the union behind them,\" Citraro said. \"And you just didn't have any protection if you tried to do that before. There was always the chance that you would just be retaliated against.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, San Francisco approved a budget that includes $27 million in discretionary general fund money to be used for a cost-of-living adjustment for nonprofit workers — including caseworkers, property managers and maintenance workers — and to lower case manager-to-client ratios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Our workers aren't getting paid enough ... Basically anybody that works at this organization could end up in the situation that our clients end up in.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Amy Huntley, case manager, Compass Family Services","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But some nonprofit workers said the city's efforts barely scratch the surface of their needs. Sam Meredith, a social worker with the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, said in July that the raise ranges presented by the city \"still don't really address what we're fighting for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it took the strike to get the city's attention and their demands met. The contract that THC workers ratified in September included an average raise of 22%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees at Compass Family Services, another nonprofit that helps San Francisco residents find stable housing and economic stability, will vote in November on whether to form a union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our workers aren't getting paid enough [and don't have] good enough health benefits, child care and all that kind of stuff,\" said Amy Huntley, a case manager at the organization. \"Basically anybody that works [at] this organization could end up in the situation that our clients end up in.\" She added that management has been discouraging workers from voting to unionize, arguing that a union would add an extra layer to the organization and drastically change how the organization works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saba Mwine, managing director at USC's Homelessness Policy Research Institute, said many of the people who work in social service nonprofits also have experienced homelessness themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Folks working in this field are already going above and beyond. Just the fact that conditions are such that folks are needing to also organize on top of the work they're doing is unfortunate for us as a society,\" said Mwine. \"We ideally would really support their work robustly, because without that community of workers, there's no way that we're going to be able to end or even meaningfully address our homelessness crisis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928380\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A worker in a yellow jacket looks on at an unhoused person sleeping in a cardboard box on the street\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS4660_homeless-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Glide employee tries to speak with a man who fell asleep on the street while waiting in line for a bed at the organization's shelter in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People working on the front lines of the homelessness crisis can experience \"secondary trauma\" from the stories they hear and situations they witness, she added. Many workers also have valid concerns about their own physical safety and \"a lack of training, professional development and advancement,\" said Mwine, pointing to \u003ca href=\"https://homeforgoodla.org/app/uploads/2022/09/UW-Current-State-Assessment_-Deliverable-2_8.26.22.pdf\">a recent report about conditions and retention issues\u003c/a> at organizations that serve the unhoused population in Los Angeles. \"I think there's a sort of psychic weight, because you feel the weight of the fact that homelessness is increasing despite your everyday efforts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, nonprofit workers' efforts align with several recent organized labor actions in the private sector. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11928188/mass-janitor-layoffs-at-meta-offices-trigger-open-ended-strike\">J\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11928188/mass-janitor-layoffs-at-meta-offices-trigger-open-ended-strike\">anitors at Meta went on strike\u003c/a> last week in response to mass layoffs, while restaurant employees at San Francisco International Airport successfully won a $5 raise and family health care following their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927383/pressure-from-sf-supes-helped-striking-sfo-restaurant-workers-win-a-deal\">three-day strike in September\u003c/a>. At Kaiser Permanente, some mental health care workers are entering Week 9 of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11925882/one-month-into-grinding-strike-negotiations-break-down-between-kaiser-permanente-and-mental-health-workers\">an open-ended strike\u003c/a> over what union representatives call an unsustainable workload and unsafe therapist-to-client ratios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those actions are in line with a resurgence of labor organizing nationwide, including high-profile efforts at major corporations like Amazon and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/02/1124680518/starbucks-union-busting-howard-schultz-nlrb\">Starbucks\u003c/a>. The National Labor Relations Board reported that workers filed more than 2,500 new union representation petitions in 2022 — a 53% spike from the 1,638 petitions filed by workers in 2021 and the highest number since 2016. And a recent Gallup poll found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120111276/labor-union-support-in-us\">support for unions in the U.S. is at a 57-year high\u003c/a>, with 71% of Americans stating they support labor unions, up from 64% in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11928262/they-cant-live-on-their-desire-to-serve-others-more-bay-area-nonprofit-workers-are-joining-the-labor-movement","authors":["11635","7237"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_4020","news_19904","news_24590","news_3424","news_794"],"featImg":"news_11928366","label":"news"},"news_11924154":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11924154","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11924154","score":null,"sort":[1661913788000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-improve-conditions-for-fast-food-workers","title":"California Lawmakers Pass Bill to Improve Conditions for Fast-Food Workers","publishDate":1661913788,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>State lawmakers approved a first-of-its-kind bill that supporters say could improve working conditions for roughly half a million fast-food employees in California and spur nationwide ramifications. Gov. Gavin Newsom has until Sept. 30, 2022, to sign or veto the legislation, amid stiff industry opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB257\">AB 257\u003c/a> promises to give some of the lowest-paid workers a bigger voice to shape workplace policies tackling pay and safety violations that labor experts say are \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/fast-recovery-act-will-raise-labor-standards-and-open-new-opportunities-for-fast-food-worker-organizing-in-california/\">rampant in the industry\u003c/a>, led by some of the country's most recognizable corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11924068,news_11913643,news_11922927\"]Dozens of people at the state Capitol erupted in cheers and chants of “Si, se pudo!” (“Yes, it could be done” in Spanish) on Monday afternoon, as a narrow majority of 21 state senators pushed past outspoken opposition from Republican colleagues. Industry lobbyists fought hard against the legislation, arguing it will hurt small franchise owners, kill jobs and raise prices for California consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelica Hernandez, a longtime fast-food worker who slept outside the state Capitol earlier this month to push for the Fast Food Accountability and Standards (FAST) Recovery Act, also celebrated its advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so important this bill was passed because we’ll stop suffering from wage theft and being victims of sexual harassment. That’s why I fought day after day for this bill,” said Hernandez, adding that she has worked at a McDonald’s restaurant in Los Angeles for 18 years. She spoke at a press conference organized by the Service Employees International Union, which co-sponsored the FAST Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 257 aims to create a Fast Food Council made up of worker, employer and government agency representatives to set minimum standards that would apply to large chains with 100 or more establishments nationwide. The 10-member council would have the authority to boost minimum wages for cooks and cashiers to $22 an hour next year. Subsequent minimum wage increases would be tied to the consumer price index.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 10,000 fast-food restaurant employees would need to sign a petition calling for the council's creation before it's set up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, by Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena), initially made fast-food corporations liable for wage theft and other law violations found at their franchise restaurants, which are owned by small-business owners who pay fees to represent the brands. But Holden nixed that section from the final bill in a compromise with critics. Another amendment limits the council’s life span to six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the legislation represents “one of the most important pro-worker bills in decades,” following the example of fast-food workers enjoying higher wages and benefits in countries like Denmark, said David Madland, a senior fellow at the left-leaning Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's such a big deal … not only for the workers in California, but many workers all around the country who are similarly situated and have so much to gain by seeing this succeed,” said Madland, who also spoke at the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has the potential to transform the fast-food industry, a quintessential low-wage industry, into [one that delivers] jobs with good wages and decent work and dignity,” he said. “But it also shows a path forward for other low-wage industries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1542px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-18-at-10.23.57-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-18-at-10.23.57-AM.png\" alt=\"Camping tents outside with some signs.\" width=\"1542\" height=\"1012\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-18-at-10.23.57-AM.png 1542w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-18-at-10.23.57-AM-800x525.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-18-at-10.23.57-AM-1020x669.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-18-at-10.23.57-AM-160x105.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-18-at-10.23.57-AM-1536x1008.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1542px) 100vw, 1542px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">AB 257 supporters set up a camp to raise awareness of the legislation at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opponents, such as the International Franchise Association, called AB 257 a “reckless bill” that would unfairly target the industry, increase fast-food prices for consumers and risk putting small-franchise owners out of business. Those concerns were echoed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22273184-usbc-ab-257\">diverse business groups\u003c/a>, including the California Black Chamber of Commerce and the CalAsian Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Franchising has opened the door for hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs to pursue their dreams and millions of workers to establish a career, but this bill stands to break all that down while raising prices for Californians and forcing restaurants to close their doors,” said IFA’s President and CEO Matthew Haller in a statement. “Gov. Newsom should stand up for local businesses, the people of California, and responsible government, and veto this legislation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higher costs would translate into \u003ca href=\"https://ucreconomicforecast.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/WorkerCompensation_Impact_On_Prices_Limited_Service_Restaurant_8_18_2022pdf.pdf\">higher food prices and less employment in the industry\u003c/a>, according to a UC Riverside School of Business Center for Economic Forecasting and Development analysis earlier this month. The center’s director, Christopher Thornberg, who authored the study, told KQED it was commissioned by the IFA and released before the announcement of final amendments to the bill, such as a cap on minimum wage increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association also disputed that working conditions are worse in fast food establishments compared to other businesses. Limited-service restaurants represent a much lower proportion of wage-theft complaints per 1,000 employees filed with the state than other industries, such as transportation and warehousing, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://epionline.org/app/uploads/2022/08/220728_EPI_NotSoFAST_Doc.pdf\">study\u003c/a> by the Employment Policies Institute, a research group with ties to the restaurant industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cases of wage theft are often \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-2021/\">underreported\u003c/a>. Vulnerable workers, such as undocumented immigrants, are less likely to complain because they fear retaliation, ignore their rights, or distrust state agencies, according to advocates and researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent survey of fast-food workers by the SEIU, a main supporter of AB 257, found \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913643/most-fast-food-workers-are-victims-of-wage-theft-survey-finds\">eight in 10 said they experienced at least one form of wage theft\u003c/a>, while prior surveys also have found a high rate of pay violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the estimated 550,000 fast-food employees in California earn close to minimum wage at franchise fast-food restaurants, and are adults of color, including many immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"State lawmakers approved a first-of-its-kind bill that supporters say could improve working conditions for roughly half a million fast-food employees in California and spur nationwide ramifications. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11924154 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11924154","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/08/30/california-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-improve-conditions-for-fast-food-workers/","disqusTitle":"California Lawmakers Pass Bill to Improve Conditions for Fast-Food Workers","source":"Food","sourceUrl":"/food/","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/6707bb1b-2591-4ab2-bd98-af01010ae244/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11924154/california-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-improve-conditions-for-fast-food-workers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>State lawmakers approved a first-of-its-kind bill that supporters say could improve working conditions for roughly half a million fast-food employees in California and spur nationwide ramifications. Gov. Gavin Newsom has until Sept. 30, 2022, to sign or veto the legislation, amid stiff industry opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB257\">AB 257\u003c/a> promises to give some of the lowest-paid workers a bigger voice to shape workplace policies tackling pay and safety violations that labor experts say are \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/fast-recovery-act-will-raise-labor-standards-and-open-new-opportunities-for-fast-food-worker-organizing-in-california/\">rampant in the industry\u003c/a>, led by some of the country's most recognizable corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11924068,news_11913643,news_11922927"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Dozens of people at the state Capitol erupted in cheers and chants of “Si, se pudo!” (“Yes, it could be done” in Spanish) on Monday afternoon, as a narrow majority of 21 state senators pushed past outspoken opposition from Republican colleagues. Industry lobbyists fought hard against the legislation, arguing it will hurt small franchise owners, kill jobs and raise prices for California consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelica Hernandez, a longtime fast-food worker who slept outside the state Capitol earlier this month to push for the Fast Food Accountability and Standards (FAST) Recovery Act, also celebrated its advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so important this bill was passed because we’ll stop suffering from wage theft and being victims of sexual harassment. That’s why I fought day after day for this bill,” said Hernandez, adding that she has worked at a McDonald’s restaurant in Los Angeles for 18 years. She spoke at a press conference organized by the Service Employees International Union, which co-sponsored the FAST Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 257 aims to create a Fast Food Council made up of worker, employer and government agency representatives to set minimum standards that would apply to large chains with 100 or more establishments nationwide. The 10-member council would have the authority to boost minimum wages for cooks and cashiers to $22 an hour next year. Subsequent minimum wage increases would be tied to the consumer price index.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 10,000 fast-food restaurant employees would need to sign a petition calling for the council's creation before it's set up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, by Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena), initially made fast-food corporations liable for wage theft and other law violations found at their franchise restaurants, which are owned by small-business owners who pay fees to represent the brands. But Holden nixed that section from the final bill in a compromise with critics. Another amendment limits the council’s life span to six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the legislation represents “one of the most important pro-worker bills in decades,” following the example of fast-food workers enjoying higher wages and benefits in countries like Denmark, said David Madland, a senior fellow at the left-leaning Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's such a big deal … not only for the workers in California, but many workers all around the country who are similarly situated and have so much to gain by seeing this succeed,” said Madland, who also spoke at the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has the potential to transform the fast-food industry, a quintessential low-wage industry, into [one that delivers] jobs with good wages and decent work and dignity,” he said. “But it also shows a path forward for other low-wage industries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1542px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-18-at-10.23.57-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-18-at-10.23.57-AM.png\" alt=\"Camping tents outside with some signs.\" width=\"1542\" height=\"1012\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-18-at-10.23.57-AM.png 1542w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-18-at-10.23.57-AM-800x525.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-18-at-10.23.57-AM-1020x669.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-18-at-10.23.57-AM-160x105.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-18-at-10.23.57-AM-1536x1008.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1542px) 100vw, 1542px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">AB 257 supporters set up a camp to raise awareness of the legislation at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opponents, such as the International Franchise Association, called AB 257 a “reckless bill” that would unfairly target the industry, increase fast-food prices for consumers and risk putting small-franchise owners out of business. Those concerns were echoed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22273184-usbc-ab-257\">diverse business groups\u003c/a>, including the California Black Chamber of Commerce and the CalAsian Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Franchising has opened the door for hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs to pursue their dreams and millions of workers to establish a career, but this bill stands to break all that down while raising prices for Californians and forcing restaurants to close their doors,” said IFA’s President and CEO Matthew Haller in a statement. “Gov. Newsom should stand up for local businesses, the people of California, and responsible government, and veto this legislation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higher costs would translate into \u003ca href=\"https://ucreconomicforecast.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/WorkerCompensation_Impact_On_Prices_Limited_Service_Restaurant_8_18_2022pdf.pdf\">higher food prices and less employment in the industry\u003c/a>, according to a UC Riverside School of Business Center for Economic Forecasting and Development analysis earlier this month. The center’s director, Christopher Thornberg, who authored the study, told KQED it was commissioned by the IFA and released before the announcement of final amendments to the bill, such as a cap on minimum wage increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association also disputed that working conditions are worse in fast food establishments compared to other businesses. Limited-service restaurants represent a much lower proportion of wage-theft complaints per 1,000 employees filed with the state than other industries, such as transportation and warehousing, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://epionline.org/app/uploads/2022/08/220728_EPI_NotSoFAST_Doc.pdf\">study\u003c/a> by the Employment Policies Institute, a research group with ties to the restaurant industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cases of wage theft are often \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-2021/\">underreported\u003c/a>. Vulnerable workers, such as undocumented immigrants, are less likely to complain because they fear retaliation, ignore their rights, or distrust state agencies, according to advocates and researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent survey of fast-food workers by the SEIU, a main supporter of AB 257, found \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913643/most-fast-food-workers-are-victims-of-wage-theft-survey-finds\">eight in 10 said they experienced at least one form of wage theft\u003c/a>, while prior surveys also have found a high rate of pay violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the estimated 550,000 fast-food employees in California earn close to minimum wage at franchise fast-food restaurants, and are adults of color, including many immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11924154/california-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-improve-conditions-for-fast-food-workers","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_1758","news_24114","news_8"],"tags":["news_30613","news_29044","news_27626","news_794","news_18208"],"featImg":"news_11924155","label":"source_news_11924154"},"news_11893995":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11893995","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11893995","score":null,"sort":[1635364277000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"few-low-wage-workers-get-to-vote-on-unions-can-california-change-that","title":"Few Low-Wage Workers Get to Vote on Unions. Can California Change That?","publishDate":1635364277,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]hirley Reyes tucked herself next to her 17-year-old son on the couch, peppering him with questions about unions as he googled the cost and benefits of collective bargaining on his phone. Reyes, a Filipina single mother, was inquisitive — and a little anxious. Some labor representatives had already knocked on their cramped in-law unit in Daly City, a majority Asian community south of San Francisco. She wondered if she was risking one of her jobs cleaning hotel rooms simply by talking to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son’s findings began to put her at ease. Unions aim to negotiate higher wages and better benefits for workers. It’s likely the surgery she had six years ago would have cost her less under union-negotiated health insurance. After months of hushed discussions at work, Reyes was handed an official secret ballot. It was a yes or no question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Do you wish to be represented for purposes of collective bargaining by UNITE HERE Local 2? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question a vast number of California workers, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/338/2019/12/CA_Future_of_Work_Commission-onboarding.pdf#page=21\">third of whom make $15 an hour or less\u003c/a>, haven’t had the opportunity to answer. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-unions-explained/\">Union participation is at historic lows\u003c/a> and collective bargaining is less prevalent in retail, restaurants and hotels — segments of the private sector with high concentrations of low-wage jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California wants to change that. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/338/2021/02/ca-future-of-work-report.pdf#page=7\">Future of Work Commission\u003c/a>, convened by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to think of moon shot goals for lifting millions of working Californians out of poverty, proposed getting more workers represented as part of the solution to stemming the state’s staggering wage gap. The commission, which included labor and business leaders, asserted in their final report released earlier this year that while a college degree reduces the chance of a low-wage job by 33%, union membership reduces the chance by 39%. That could go a long way in a state where \u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedwaysca.org/realcost\">1 in 3 households with working adults struggle to afford basic necessities\u003c/a>, while the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/income-inequality-in-california/\">top 2% control 20% of the wealth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/5620f835-9623-4f14-a4dd-ef9d8a3326ff?src=embed\" title=\"Prompt for Union Series\" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission urges employers and employees to reach agreement on a new social compact that would foster quality jobs over the next decade. But first that requires building consensus around the basic principle of giving workers a greater voice, whether through unions or worker organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t happened yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Diminished voices\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The rapid growth of \u003ca href=\"https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264246010-en.pdf?expires=1635363163&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=31B89D82960E3F484956293A05BFCB0F\">high-skilled tech jobs and the loss of industrial jobs to global labor markets\u003c/a> have significantly widened the gap between rich and poor people. At the same time, worker organization has diminished: The share of \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/94x791km\">California workers in a union has steadily declined from about 40% in the 1950s\u003c/a> to 16% last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union participation is especially low in the private sector, which makes up 84% of the state workforce. Today, 1 in 10 private-sector workers belongs to a union, compared to 1 in 2 in the public sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/653dee32-250b-4402-b4df-cb40c8928e23?src=embed\" title=\"Public vs. private union workers\" width=\"800\" height=\"709\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet these private-sector workers are most in need of a voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous reports have documented the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/07/california-covid-deepening-income-inequality-data/\">pandemic’s disproportionate impact on essential workers\u003c/a>, many of whom are immigrants and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/05/pandemic-immigrant-women-unemployment-job-loss/\">women of color\u003c/a>. Many low-wage workers are employed in the service economy, such as retail, hospitality and tourism. They are the ones making and delivering food, producing and packaging goods, and cleaning and caring for others but unable to keep up with their own bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Reyes, who works at the Marriott Waterfront, voting yes to a union worked out for the better. After the contract was signed Aug. 4, Reyes’s wage will rise from $19.80 to $24.30 over the next year. Her health insurance premium dropped from $250 a month to $35. Dental insurance and the option of a 401(k) or pension plans were added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11894001 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-800x534.jpg\" alt='A multistory beige, windowed building with the one-story, red letters spelling \"Marriott\" toward the top.' width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An exterior view of the San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront in Burlingame, where Shirley Reyes works as a housekeeper, on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]R[/dropcap]eyes began putting $200 a month toward her son’s college tuition, pulling back on her long work days and, her favorite part, cooking dinner for her son. Though Reyes was laid off during the pandemic, the union contract gave her priority to return. When the company began rehiring, Reyes was among the first back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not scared anymore,” Reyes said. “We have a contract now. We have job security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of MIT researchers surveyed workers nationally in 2017 and found that about \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0019793918806250\">half of nonunionized workers would vote to join a union\u003c/a>. That’s up from 32% in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all workers agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sylvia Beltran, who was formerly unionized as an usher at the SAP Center in San José and now does freelance photography, isn’t looking for collective bargaining. Dues are high, and she enjoys her freelance schedule unconstricted by a contract. A few unions have been beset by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/article255081222.html\">power struggles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article254976772.html\">leadership scandals\u003c/a> lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Unions] feel more like a corporation,” she said. “I think they are more in it to make money and less interested in workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Unions can reduce inequality — at a cost\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some researchers say the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w24587\">decline in union membership has contributed to at least 10% of the wealth divide\u003c/a>, according to a 2018 study published in the National Bureau of Economic Research. Henry Farber, an economics professor at Princeton University who co-authored the study, said because wealth inequality is linked to stagnating wages that hurt the lowest-paid workers, unions can act as a counterbalance by lifting up the bottom through wages and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union workers in California are more likely to receive health care through their employers and to earn nearly 13% higher wages than nonunionized workers in similar industries, and they are 50% more likely to have an employer-sponsored retirement plan, according to \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2018/Union-Effect-in-California-1.pdf\">a report by the UC Berkeley Labor Center\u003c/a>. Those advantages put an estimated $18.5 billion annually into the hands of lower-income Californians, reducing their reliance on public safety nets and helping to stave off poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions, however, come at a cost to businesses, which argue that the loss of profits will lead to fewer jobs, and the rigidity of union contracts will make it hard to adapt to change. Research from the ‘90s found that \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1992.tb00299.x\">unionization slows the rate at which a company adds new jobs by 4 percentage points a year\u003c/a>. Another study published more recently in The Quarterly Journal of Economics looked at the market value of publicly traded companies before and after they were unionized. It found that \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/127/1/333/1834007?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">a union election victory led to a roughly 10% decrease in the company’s market value\u003c/a>. And, thanks to a tight labor market, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/08/labor-shortage-hiring-incentives-yoga-therapy-401k/\">wages have been increasing for workers\u003c/a> in typically lower-paying leisure and hospitality jobs, despite low union density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11892723,news_11862641,news_11890056\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even a member of the Future of Work commission who signed his name to the report recommending the state “empower worker voice and organization” notes that unions aren’t the only way to quality jobs. Lance Hastings, president and CEO of the California Manufacturers and Technology Association, says his organization focuses on workforce development and training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the commission’s proposal of increasing union representation to decrease inequality, Hastings says: “Where we can find the balance where that helps in the workforce, we’re all for it.” But, he adds, the conversation about improving workers’ lot can’t begin and end with just paying everyone more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Swaim, president of the right-leaning California Policy Center, takes it one step further. Broadly speaking, he says, a union’s goal is simply to raise wages for its members at whatever cost. And that cost, ultimately, is passed along to all Californians who use the products and services union members make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unionized labor agreements for construction projects, for example, can drive up the cost of housing. In 2016, Los Angeles voters passed a $1.2 billion bond for housing for unhoused residents. The city council required that developers constructing over 65 units must use a mostly unionized workforce. The effect, according to research from RAND, a nonpartisan research organization headquartered in Santa Monica, was that \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1362-1.html\">projects cost an additional $43,000 per unit and disincentivized developers from building projects with more than 65 units\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on a simulation, the researchers estimated that 800 more units would have been built were it not for the labor agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>That time labor and gig companies failed to compromise\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In many ways, California’s wrangling over the employment status of gig workers has been a proxy battle for unionizing an emerging crop of low-wage jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, as labor groups pushed California to classify freelancers as employees through \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB5\">a bill\u003c/a>, some large unions, including Service Employees International Union and International Brotherhood of Teamsters, took part in private negotiations with the gig companies. In a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Open-Forum-Uber-Lyft-ready-to-do-our-part-for-13969843.php\">ride-share executives wrote they’d be willing to work with labor groups\u003c/a> and lawmakers on providing some benefits to drivers, some information on driver pay and supporting the formation of a nonunion drivers association. Perhaps it would have looked something like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/technology/uber-agrees-to-union-deal-in-new-york.html\">Independent Drivers Guild Uber recognized in New York\u003c/a>, an association without the full powers of a union, which has faced \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/business/economy/uber-drivers-union.html\">criticism for being funded directly by Uber\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t hurt to sit down and see whether there was a deal to be worked out, says Rome Aloise, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 853, who took part in the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hope, he said, was to secure the right to collectively bargain for gig workers and ultimately improve their livelihoods. But, he said, the labor movement as a whole was adamant that the workers become employees. And the companies “weren’t really able to get themselves to the point” where they would accept unions negotiating on workers' behalf over wages and benefits, said Aloise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That made it impossible for the Teamsters to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here was also pushback from within labor’s ranks. Some argued that unions should not compromise on gig workers gaining employee status, established under \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/archive/S222732.PDF\">a landmark state Supreme Court ruling in 2018\u003c/a>. Negotiations stalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2019, the Legislature passed the bill and Newsom signed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber, Lyft and other gig companies quickly put a measure on the ballot in 2020 that exempted gig workers from the new law — and prevented drivers from unionizing. After \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-22-gig-workers-ab-5/\">companies spent $205 million\u003c/a>, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-22-gig-workers-ab-5/\">59% of Californians voted to approve\u003c/a> the ballot measure, Proposition 22. Drivers, they decided, would remain freelancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the passage of Proposition 22, Lyft’s president, John Zimmer, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Uber-Lyft-shares-soar-following-passage-of-15701236.php\">The Chronicle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-05/prop-22-win-lyft-founder-union-deal-california\">The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> that the company was still willing to negotiate with labor to increase benefits for drivers while maintaining their independent contractor status. Zimmer also said he was open to sectoral bargaining, when employers and workers negotiate baseline compensation and safety standards that cover most or all of the workers in an industry, not just a single workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft spokesperson CJ Macklin confirmed that remains the company’s position today. “We continue to remain open to working with labor to further strengthen benefits and protections for drivers in ways that also maintain their independence and flexibility,” wrote Macklin in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber’s position for further negotiations is less clear. “Uber remains committed to making independent work better — including supporting policies that provide access to new benefits while protecting the flexibility drivers value most,” wrote Uber spokesperson Austin Heyworth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor leaders remain divided on whether to compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are still two schools of thought within the labor movement on the path forward for organizing gig workers, says Steve Smith, spokesperson for the California Labor Federation. There’s a camp that says, “No way, no how,” to organizing workers without employee status. Then, says Smith, there are folks who look at the current situation and say: “These folks are without any basic protections. How can we give them not only protections that other workers have in law, but also the right to organize?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 22 guaranteed some driver benefits and compensation, including 30 cents per mile toward expenses, and 120% of minimum wage for their minutes of engaged time driving passengers. That could work out to as little \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/10/gig-worker-pay-prop-22/\">as $5.64 per hour or as much as $27.58 per hour\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of gig worker classification isn’t dead yet. In late August, a state Superior Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-08-20/prop-22-unconstitutional\">judge found that the ballot measure was unconstitutional\u003c/a> and could not be enforced. The judge noted the language aimed at banning drivers from unionizing ought to be considered separate legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition that represents the \u003ca href=\"https://protectdriversandservices.com/prop-22-proponents-statement-in-response-to-seriously-flawed-alameda-superior-court-judge-ruling/\">gig companies pledged to appeal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 22 is overturned in the courts, and gig workers are able to unionize, Smith says that the organizing that has been ongoing since the passage of the proposition will “become more vigorous and urgent.” Whether or not labor would be willing to head back to the negotiating table with gig companies isn’t yet determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s former chief of staff, Ann O’Leary, tweeted that these skirmishes won’t really end until labor and business reach a broader pact for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Ann_OLeary/status/1428926022771118096?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Labor leaders focus on political influence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a sunny Saturday morning just before Newsom’s Sept. 14 recall election, about 100 union workers gathered in an Oakland parking lot, standing in small groups and chatting while a musician strummed a guitar and sang pro-organizing songs. It was one of several door-knocking events unions coordinated to turn out voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the labor movement, we pride ourselves on turning out the labor vote in big numbers,” Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, who had flown in from Washington, D.C., for the event, told the crowd. “We need to get all of the turnout that we can possibly find in these last four days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing both public- and private-sector workers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/10/newsom-recall-big-donors/\">gave more than $25.7 million\u003c/a> to counter the recall effort, more than the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-22-gig-workers-ab-5/\">$20 million\u003c/a> they had put into the Proposition 22 fight. After the election was called in favor of keeping Newsom, the California Labor Federation released a statement saying that workers completed more than 20,000 volunteer shifts to get out the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said labor volunteering sealed Newsom’s win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11894006 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in matching black T-shirts with red writing, look at flyers in their hands as they wait at a screen door on a porch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Sanchez, a cafeteria worker at Verizon and member of UNITE HERE Local 2, canvasses homes in San José in support of Gov. Gavin Newsom before the recall election, on Sept. 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Jesse Bedayn/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]“W[/dropcap]e like to tell our folks that [at] the bargaining table, you inevitably will find an employer on the other side who fears you more if you’ve got political power,” says Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions are a major political force in California, and they dedicate funds and volunteer hours to their political goals. In the 2018 state legislative races, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/california-election-2020/2020/10/california-lawmakers-big-donors-special-interest-independent-expenditures/\">teachers unions and prison guard unions were among the top donors\u003c/a>. During this legislative cycle, labor counted a number of state wins in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-legislature-bills-passed-2021/\">workplace protections for warehouse workers and better pay for garment workers\u003c/a>. At the federal level, labor has made the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or PRO Act, a legislative priority to ease unionization drives by increasing penalties on businesses for unfair labor practices and requiring employees covered by union contracts to pay dues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Art Pulaski, California Labor Federation executive secretary-treasurer\"]'We like to tell our folks that [at] the bargaining table, you inevitably will find an employer on the other side who fears you more if you've got political power.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s been a debate within labor circles over whether unions are devoting enough resources to recruiting new members and growing the labor movement. This debate over priorities reemerged \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/business/richard-trumka-dead.html\">after the death of former AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka\u003c/a>, who focused more on political advocacy and fostered close relationships with the Obama and Biden administrations. \u003ca href=\"https://splinternews.com/afl-cio-budget-is-a-stark-illustration-of-the-decline-o-1834793722\">Leaked AFL-CIO budget documents show\u003c/a> that under Trumka’s tenure, the nation’s foremost labor federation went from spending nearly 30% of its budget on organizing to 10%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, there’s a fair amount of variation in how much money unions devote to recruiting new members, says Pulaski. The federation recommends that unions spend at least 20% of their annual budget on recruiting new members, sometimes with high-profile disappointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple years ago, for example, Tesla beat back a unionization drive at its Fremont plant. The electric carmaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/9/30/20891314/elon-musk-tesla-labor-violation-nlrb\">banned workers\u003c/a> from wearing pro-union garb, attempted to shift four pro-union workers to management positions so that they could no longer advocate for a union, and fired a worker. Security guards harassed workers handing out union pamphlets in the parking lot. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/998454539941367808\">Elon Musk even sent a tweet\u003c/a>, seeming to threaten that if workers unionized they’d lose their stock options. There was never a union election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some private-sector unions have made gains in recent years. \u003ca href=\"https://unitehere.org/\">UNITE HERE\u003c/a>, a union for service workers, claims to be the \u003ca href=\"https://unitehere.org/press-releases/unite-here-celebrates-five-years-of-record-growth-declaring-one-job-should-be-enough-at-2019-international-union-convention/\">fastest-growing private union\u003c/a>, expanding their ranks by 62,000 since 2014 to 300,000 across the United States and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, 40,000 workers became eligible to unionize in July 2020 when home child care workers voted to form a union under \u003ca href=\"https://childcareprovidersunited.org/\">Child Care Providers United\u003c/a>. Those workers won their first contract about a year later in June 2021, which included state-funded rate increases and funding for training.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Amazon: The next frontier\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Following a failed vote to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, the \u003ca href=\"https://teamster.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/62421CONVENTIONRESOLUTIONAMAZON.pdf\">Teamsters announced a drive at Amazon warehouses nationwide\u003c/a>. The union even launched a new division dedicated to organizing the online behemoth. Their strategy will pressure the second-largest employer in the country on all fronts: recruit from warehouses, raise public awareness and lean on political allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, that starts by leveraging existing Teamsters members at non-Amazon worksites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Herrera, international vice president of the western region for the Teamsters and secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 396 in Southern California, likened the unionization drive to taking a bite out of a whale to try to kill it. “It’s going to be extremely difficult,” he said. Teamsters are recruiting volunteers from existing ranks to help with worker outreach because Amazon warehouses have far more employees than typical bargaining units. \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/investing-in-the-u-s\">Amazon has more than 153,000 workers in California\u003c/a>, many of them in warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon spokesperson Maria Boschetti said employees have a choice but the company believes unions will get in the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a company, we don’t think unions are the best answer for our employees,” Boschetti wrote in an email. “Every day we empower people to find ways to improve their jobs, and when they do that we want to make those changes — quickly. That type of continuous improvement is harder to do quickly and nimbly with unions in the middle. The benefits of direct relationships between managers and employees can’t be overstated — these relationships allow every employee’s voice to be heard, not just the voices of a select few.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]tarting in September, Teamsters members across the Bay Area are being trained to canvas their communities as Amazon buys property in San Francisco, and potentially in Richmond, Pleasanton, Gilroy and San José, according to Doug Bloch, political director of Teamsters Joint Council 7, which covers Northern California, and a member of the Future of Work Commission. Workers are trained to speak to residents about, in part, the importance of unionizing Amazon plants and encourage them to call local politicians, who vote on new Amazon plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor leaders say the Bay Area, which has sympathetic local politicians, will be an important region in which to mount their campaign. Bloch said unions will press city council members and county supervisors to hold Amazon accountable, and to require better wages and benefits, and even to ask the company to be neutral during a union drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the place to bring the fight to Amazon,” said Bloch, who hopes that early union successes here will begin to spread east. Already, the Teamsters are using a new state law requiring warehouses to disclose to workers any quotas or work speed standards as evidence that unions benefit workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloch said he’s even open to pursuing sectoral bargaining. Unlike unionization, one form of sectoral bargaining could begin with state legislation to designate an appointed council to negotiate wages and benefits on behalf of all warehouse workers in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything,” he says, “is on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-divide/\">California Divide\u003c/a> project, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequality and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Facing a staggering wealth gap, California suggests increasing union participation among low-wage workers, noting that union membership reduces working poverty better than a college degree. But getting more workers to vote on unions will require businesses and unions to compromise. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1635371586,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://e.infogram.com/5620f835-9623-4f14-a4dd-ef9d8a3326ff","https://e.infogram.com/653dee32-250b-4402-b4df-cb40c8928e23"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":72,"wordCount":3577},"headData":{"title":"Few Low-Wage Workers Get to Vote on Unions. Can California Change That? | KQED","description":"Facing a staggering wealth gap, California suggests increasing union participation among low-wage workers, noting that union membership reduces working poverty better than a college degree. But getting more workers to vote on unions will require businesses and unions to compromise. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11893995 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11893995","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/10/27/few-low-wage-workers-get-to-vote-on-unions-can-california-change-that/","disqusTitle":"Few Low-Wage Workers Get to Vote on Unions. Can California Change That?","source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"Grace Gedye and Jesse Bedayn\u003cbr>CalMatters","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11893995/few-low-wage-workers-get-to-vote-on-unions-can-california-change-that","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hirley Reyes tucked herself next to her 17-year-old son on the couch, peppering him with questions about unions as he googled the cost and benefits of collective bargaining on his phone. Reyes, a Filipina single mother, was inquisitive — and a little anxious. Some labor representatives had already knocked on their cramped in-law unit in Daly City, a majority Asian community south of San Francisco. She wondered if she was risking one of her jobs cleaning hotel rooms simply by talking to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son’s findings began to put her at ease. Unions aim to negotiate higher wages and better benefits for workers. It’s likely the surgery she had six years ago would have cost her less under union-negotiated health insurance. After months of hushed discussions at work, Reyes was handed an official secret ballot. It was a yes or no question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Do you wish to be represented for purposes of collective bargaining by UNITE HERE Local 2? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question a vast number of California workers, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/338/2019/12/CA_Future_of_Work_Commission-onboarding.pdf#page=21\">third of whom make $15 an hour or less\u003c/a>, haven’t had the opportunity to answer. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-unions-explained/\">Union participation is at historic lows\u003c/a> and collective bargaining is less prevalent in retail, restaurants and hotels — segments of the private sector with high concentrations of low-wage jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California wants to change that. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/338/2021/02/ca-future-of-work-report.pdf#page=7\">Future of Work Commission\u003c/a>, convened by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to think of moon shot goals for lifting millions of working Californians out of poverty, proposed getting more workers represented as part of the solution to stemming the state’s staggering wage gap. The commission, which included labor and business leaders, asserted in their final report released earlier this year that while a college degree reduces the chance of a low-wage job by 33%, union membership reduces the chance by 39%. That could go a long way in a state where \u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedwaysca.org/realcost\">1 in 3 households with working adults struggle to afford basic necessities\u003c/a>, while the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/income-inequality-in-california/\">top 2% control 20% of the wealth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/5620f835-9623-4f14-a4dd-ef9d8a3326ff?src=embed\" title=\"Prompt for Union Series\" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission urges employers and employees to reach agreement on a new social compact that would foster quality jobs over the next decade. But first that requires building consensus around the basic principle of giving workers a greater voice, whether through unions or worker organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t happened yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Diminished voices\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The rapid growth of \u003ca href=\"https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264246010-en.pdf?expires=1635363163&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=31B89D82960E3F484956293A05BFCB0F\">high-skilled tech jobs and the loss of industrial jobs to global labor markets\u003c/a> have significantly widened the gap between rich and poor people. At the same time, worker organization has diminished: The share of \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/94x791km\">California workers in a union has steadily declined from about 40% in the 1950s\u003c/a> to 16% last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union participation is especially low in the private sector, which makes up 84% of the state workforce. Today, 1 in 10 private-sector workers belongs to a union, compared to 1 in 2 in the public sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/653dee32-250b-4402-b4df-cb40c8928e23?src=embed\" title=\"Public vs. private union workers\" width=\"800\" height=\"709\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet these private-sector workers are most in need of a voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous reports have documented the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/07/california-covid-deepening-income-inequality-data/\">pandemic’s disproportionate impact on essential workers\u003c/a>, many of whom are immigrants and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/05/pandemic-immigrant-women-unemployment-job-loss/\">women of color\u003c/a>. Many low-wage workers are employed in the service economy, such as retail, hospitality and tourism. They are the ones making and delivering food, producing and packaging goods, and cleaning and caring for others but unable to keep up with their own bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Reyes, who works at the Marriott Waterfront, voting yes to a union worked out for the better. After the contract was signed Aug. 4, Reyes’s wage will rise from $19.80 to $24.30 over the next year. Her health insurance premium dropped from $250 a month to $35. Dental insurance and the option of a 401(k) or pension plans were added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11894001 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-800x534.jpg\" alt='A multistory beige, windowed building with the one-story, red letters spelling \"Marriott\" toward the top.' width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Shirley-Reyes-100621-3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An exterior view of the San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront in Burlingame, where Shirley Reyes works as a housekeeper, on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">R\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>eyes began putting $200 a month toward her son’s college tuition, pulling back on her long work days and, her favorite part, cooking dinner for her son. Though Reyes was laid off during the pandemic, the union contract gave her priority to return. When the company began rehiring, Reyes was among the first back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not scared anymore,” Reyes said. “We have a contract now. We have job security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of MIT researchers surveyed workers nationally in 2017 and found that about \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0019793918806250\">half of nonunionized workers would vote to join a union\u003c/a>. That’s up from 32% in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all workers agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sylvia Beltran, who was formerly unionized as an usher at the SAP Center in San José and now does freelance photography, isn’t looking for collective bargaining. Dues are high, and she enjoys her freelance schedule unconstricted by a contract. A few unions have been beset by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/article255081222.html\">power struggles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article254976772.html\">leadership scandals\u003c/a> lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Unions] feel more like a corporation,” she said. “I think they are more in it to make money and less interested in workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Unions can reduce inequality — at a cost\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some researchers say the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w24587\">decline in union membership has contributed to at least 10% of the wealth divide\u003c/a>, according to a 2018 study published in the National Bureau of Economic Research. Henry Farber, an economics professor at Princeton University who co-authored the study, said because wealth inequality is linked to stagnating wages that hurt the lowest-paid workers, unions can act as a counterbalance by lifting up the bottom through wages and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union workers in California are more likely to receive health care through their employers and to earn nearly 13% higher wages than nonunionized workers in similar industries, and they are 50% more likely to have an employer-sponsored retirement plan, according to \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2018/Union-Effect-in-California-1.pdf\">a report by the UC Berkeley Labor Center\u003c/a>. Those advantages put an estimated $18.5 billion annually into the hands of lower-income Californians, reducing their reliance on public safety nets and helping to stave off poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions, however, come at a cost to businesses, which argue that the loss of profits will lead to fewer jobs, and the rigidity of union contracts will make it hard to adapt to change. Research from the ‘90s found that \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1992.tb00299.x\">unionization slows the rate at which a company adds new jobs by 4 percentage points a year\u003c/a>. Another study published more recently in The Quarterly Journal of Economics looked at the market value of publicly traded companies before and after they were unionized. It found that \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/127/1/333/1834007?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">a union election victory led to a roughly 10% decrease in the company’s market value\u003c/a>. And, thanks to a tight labor market, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/08/labor-shortage-hiring-incentives-yoga-therapy-401k/\">wages have been increasing for workers\u003c/a> in typically lower-paying leisure and hospitality jobs, despite low union density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11892723,news_11862641,news_11890056","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even a member of the Future of Work commission who signed his name to the report recommending the state “empower worker voice and organization” notes that unions aren’t the only way to quality jobs. Lance Hastings, president and CEO of the California Manufacturers and Technology Association, says his organization focuses on workforce development and training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the commission’s proposal of increasing union representation to decrease inequality, Hastings says: “Where we can find the balance where that helps in the workforce, we’re all for it.” But, he adds, the conversation about improving workers’ lot can’t begin and end with just paying everyone more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Swaim, president of the right-leaning California Policy Center, takes it one step further. Broadly speaking, he says, a union’s goal is simply to raise wages for its members at whatever cost. And that cost, ultimately, is passed along to all Californians who use the products and services union members make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unionized labor agreements for construction projects, for example, can drive up the cost of housing. In 2016, Los Angeles voters passed a $1.2 billion bond for housing for unhoused residents. The city council required that developers constructing over 65 units must use a mostly unionized workforce. The effect, according to research from RAND, a nonpartisan research organization headquartered in Santa Monica, was that \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1362-1.html\">projects cost an additional $43,000 per unit and disincentivized developers from building projects with more than 65 units\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on a simulation, the researchers estimated that 800 more units would have been built were it not for the labor agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>That time labor and gig companies failed to compromise\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In many ways, California’s wrangling over the employment status of gig workers has been a proxy battle for unionizing an emerging crop of low-wage jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, as labor groups pushed California to classify freelancers as employees through \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB5\">a bill\u003c/a>, some large unions, including Service Employees International Union and International Brotherhood of Teamsters, took part in private negotiations with the gig companies. In a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Open-Forum-Uber-Lyft-ready-to-do-our-part-for-13969843.php\">ride-share executives wrote they’d be willing to work with labor groups\u003c/a> and lawmakers on providing some benefits to drivers, some information on driver pay and supporting the formation of a nonunion drivers association. Perhaps it would have looked something like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/technology/uber-agrees-to-union-deal-in-new-york.html\">Independent Drivers Guild Uber recognized in New York\u003c/a>, an association without the full powers of a union, which has faced \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/business/economy/uber-drivers-union.html\">criticism for being funded directly by Uber\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t hurt to sit down and see whether there was a deal to be worked out, says Rome Aloise, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 853, who took part in the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hope, he said, was to secure the right to collectively bargain for gig workers and ultimately improve their livelihoods. But, he said, the labor movement as a whole was adamant that the workers become employees. And the companies “weren’t really able to get themselves to the point” where they would accept unions negotiating on workers' behalf over wages and benefits, said Aloise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That made it impossible for the Teamsters to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>here was also pushback from within labor’s ranks. Some argued that unions should not compromise on gig workers gaining employee status, established under \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/archive/S222732.PDF\">a landmark state Supreme Court ruling in 2018\u003c/a>. Negotiations stalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2019, the Legislature passed the bill and Newsom signed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber, Lyft and other gig companies quickly put a measure on the ballot in 2020 that exempted gig workers from the new law — and prevented drivers from unionizing. After \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-22-gig-workers-ab-5/\">companies spent $205 million\u003c/a>, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-22-gig-workers-ab-5/\">59% of Californians voted to approve\u003c/a> the ballot measure, Proposition 22. Drivers, they decided, would remain freelancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the passage of Proposition 22, Lyft’s president, John Zimmer, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Uber-Lyft-shares-soar-following-passage-of-15701236.php\">The Chronicle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-05/prop-22-win-lyft-founder-union-deal-california\">The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> that the company was still willing to negotiate with labor to increase benefits for drivers while maintaining their independent contractor status. Zimmer also said he was open to sectoral bargaining, when employers and workers negotiate baseline compensation and safety standards that cover most or all of the workers in an industry, not just a single workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft spokesperson CJ Macklin confirmed that remains the company’s position today. “We continue to remain open to working with labor to further strengthen benefits and protections for drivers in ways that also maintain their independence and flexibility,” wrote Macklin in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber’s position for further negotiations is less clear. “Uber remains committed to making independent work better — including supporting policies that provide access to new benefits while protecting the flexibility drivers value most,” wrote Uber spokesperson Austin Heyworth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor leaders remain divided on whether to compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are still two schools of thought within the labor movement on the path forward for organizing gig workers, says Steve Smith, spokesperson for the California Labor Federation. There’s a camp that says, “No way, no how,” to organizing workers without employee status. Then, says Smith, there are folks who look at the current situation and say: “These folks are without any basic protections. How can we give them not only protections that other workers have in law, but also the right to organize?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 22 guaranteed some driver benefits and compensation, including 30 cents per mile toward expenses, and 120% of minimum wage for their minutes of engaged time driving passengers. That could work out to as little \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/10/gig-worker-pay-prop-22/\">as $5.64 per hour or as much as $27.58 per hour\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of gig worker classification isn’t dead yet. In late August, a state Superior Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-08-20/prop-22-unconstitutional\">judge found that the ballot measure was unconstitutional\u003c/a> and could not be enforced. The judge noted the language aimed at banning drivers from unionizing ought to be considered separate legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition that represents the \u003ca href=\"https://protectdriversandservices.com/prop-22-proponents-statement-in-response-to-seriously-flawed-alameda-superior-court-judge-ruling/\">gig companies pledged to appeal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Proposition 22 is overturned in the courts, and gig workers are able to unionize, Smith says that the organizing that has been ongoing since the passage of the proposition will “become more vigorous and urgent.” Whether or not labor would be willing to head back to the negotiating table with gig companies isn’t yet determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s former chief of staff, Ann O’Leary, tweeted that these skirmishes won’t really end until labor and business reach a broader pact for workers.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1428926022771118096"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003ch3>Labor leaders focus on political influence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a sunny Saturday morning just before Newsom’s Sept. 14 recall election, about 100 union workers gathered in an Oakland parking lot, standing in small groups and chatting while a musician strummed a guitar and sang pro-organizing songs. It was one of several door-knocking events unions coordinated to turn out voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the labor movement, we pride ourselves on turning out the labor vote in big numbers,” Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, who had flown in from Washington, D.C., for the event, told the crowd. “We need to get all of the turnout that we can possibly find in these last four days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing both public- and private-sector workers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/10/newsom-recall-big-donors/\">gave more than $25.7 million\u003c/a> to counter the recall effort, more than the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-22-gig-workers-ab-5/\">$20 million\u003c/a> they had put into the Proposition 22 fight. After the election was called in favor of keeping Newsom, the California Labor Federation released a statement saying that workers completed more than 20,000 volunteer shifts to get out the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said labor volunteering sealed Newsom’s win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11894006 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in matching black T-shirts with red writing, look at flyers in their hands as they wait at a screen door on a porch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/UNIONS-Unite-Here-Recall-100621-01.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Sanchez, a cafeteria worker at Verizon and member of UNITE HERE Local 2, canvasses homes in San José in support of Gov. Gavin Newsom before the recall election, on Sept. 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Jesse Bedayn/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">“W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>e like to tell our folks that [at] the bargaining table, you inevitably will find an employer on the other side who fears you more if you’ve got political power,” says Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions are a major political force in California, and they dedicate funds and volunteer hours to their political goals. In the 2018 state legislative races, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/california-election-2020/2020/10/california-lawmakers-big-donors-special-interest-independent-expenditures/\">teachers unions and prison guard unions were among the top donors\u003c/a>. During this legislative cycle, labor counted a number of state wins in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-legislature-bills-passed-2021/\">workplace protections for warehouse workers and better pay for garment workers\u003c/a>. At the federal level, labor has made the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or PRO Act, a legislative priority to ease unionization drives by increasing penalties on businesses for unfair labor practices and requiring employees covered by union contracts to pay dues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We like to tell our folks that [at] the bargaining table, you inevitably will find an employer on the other side who fears you more if you've got political power.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Art Pulaski, California Labor Federation executive secretary-treasurer","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s been a debate within labor circles over whether unions are devoting enough resources to recruiting new members and growing the labor movement. This debate over priorities reemerged \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/business/richard-trumka-dead.html\">after the death of former AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka\u003c/a>, who focused more on political advocacy and fostered close relationships with the Obama and Biden administrations. \u003ca href=\"https://splinternews.com/afl-cio-budget-is-a-stark-illustration-of-the-decline-o-1834793722\">Leaked AFL-CIO budget documents show\u003c/a> that under Trumka’s tenure, the nation’s foremost labor federation went from spending nearly 30% of its budget on organizing to 10%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, there’s a fair amount of variation in how much money unions devote to recruiting new members, says Pulaski. The federation recommends that unions spend at least 20% of their annual budget on recruiting new members, sometimes with high-profile disappointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple years ago, for example, Tesla beat back a unionization drive at its Fremont plant. The electric carmaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/9/30/20891314/elon-musk-tesla-labor-violation-nlrb\">banned workers\u003c/a> from wearing pro-union garb, attempted to shift four pro-union workers to management positions so that they could no longer advocate for a union, and fired a worker. Security guards harassed workers handing out union pamphlets in the parking lot. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/998454539941367808\">Elon Musk even sent a tweet\u003c/a>, seeming to threaten that if workers unionized they’d lose their stock options. There was never a union election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some private-sector unions have made gains in recent years. \u003ca href=\"https://unitehere.org/\">UNITE HERE\u003c/a>, a union for service workers, claims to be the \u003ca href=\"https://unitehere.org/press-releases/unite-here-celebrates-five-years-of-record-growth-declaring-one-job-should-be-enough-at-2019-international-union-convention/\">fastest-growing private union\u003c/a>, expanding their ranks by 62,000 since 2014 to 300,000 across the United States and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, 40,000 workers became eligible to unionize in July 2020 when home child care workers voted to form a union under \u003ca href=\"https://childcareprovidersunited.org/\">Child Care Providers United\u003c/a>. Those workers won their first contract about a year later in June 2021, which included state-funded rate increases and funding for training.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Amazon: The next frontier\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Following a failed vote to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, the \u003ca href=\"https://teamster.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/62421CONVENTIONRESOLUTIONAMAZON.pdf\">Teamsters announced a drive at Amazon warehouses nationwide\u003c/a>. The union even launched a new division dedicated to organizing the online behemoth. Their strategy will pressure the second-largest employer in the country on all fronts: recruit from warehouses, raise public awareness and lean on political allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, that starts by leveraging existing Teamsters members at non-Amazon worksites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Herrera, international vice president of the western region for the Teamsters and secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 396 in Southern California, likened the unionization drive to taking a bite out of a whale to try to kill it. “It’s going to be extremely difficult,” he said. Teamsters are recruiting volunteers from existing ranks to help with worker outreach because Amazon warehouses have far more employees than typical bargaining units. \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/investing-in-the-u-s\">Amazon has more than 153,000 workers in California\u003c/a>, many of them in warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon spokesperson Maria Boschetti said employees have a choice but the company believes unions will get in the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a company, we don’t think unions are the best answer for our employees,” Boschetti wrote in an email. “Every day we empower people to find ways to improve their jobs, and when they do that we want to make those changes — quickly. That type of continuous improvement is harder to do quickly and nimbly with unions in the middle. The benefits of direct relationships between managers and employees can’t be overstated — these relationships allow every employee’s voice to be heard, not just the voices of a select few.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>tarting in September, Teamsters members across the Bay Area are being trained to canvas their communities as Amazon buys property in San Francisco, and potentially in Richmond, Pleasanton, Gilroy and San José, according to Doug Bloch, political director of Teamsters Joint Council 7, which covers Northern California, and a member of the Future of Work Commission. Workers are trained to speak to residents about, in part, the importance of unionizing Amazon plants and encourage them to call local politicians, who vote on new Amazon plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor leaders say the Bay Area, which has sympathetic local politicians, will be an important region in which to mount their campaign. Bloch said unions will press city council members and county supervisors to hold Amazon accountable, and to require better wages and benefits, and even to ask the company to be neutral during a union drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the place to bring the fight to Amazon,” said Bloch, who hopes that early union successes here will begin to spread east. Already, the Teamsters are using a new state law requiring warehouses to disclose to workers any quotas or work speed standards as evidence that unions benefit workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloch said he’s even open to pursuing sectoral bargaining. Unlike unionization, one form of sectoral bargaining could begin with state legislation to designate an appointed council to negotiate wages and benefits on behalf of all warehouse workers in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything,” he says, “is on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-divide/\">California Divide\u003c/a> project, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequality and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11893995/few-low-wage-workers-get-to-vote-on-unions-can-california-change-that","authors":["byline_news_11893995"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_17994","news_26585","news_19904","news_30143","news_794"],"featImg":"news_11893999","label":"source_news_11893995"},"news_11893226":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11893226","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11893226","score":null,"sort":[1634860090000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pressure-mounts-on-uc-system-to-reach-agreement-with-lecturers-as-strike-looms","title":"Pressure Mounts on UC System to Reach Agreement with Lecturers as Strike Looms","publishDate":1634860090,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>With the threat of multiple strikes this fall that could cancel instruction for a third of undergraduate students, the University of California has inched closer to meeting some demands of its more than 6,000 lecturers. It’s a move that coincides with increased pressure from state lawmakers to resolve the labor dispute that has been going on for more than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lecturers say the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/LS-ltr-to-IX-unit-re-AFT-proposal_101221_FINAL.pdf\">UC’s latest offer from last Monday\u003c/a> — which promises increased job security — is a step in the right direction. But they’re not pleased yet because it falls way short of the salary bumps they seek and includes other loopholes they find troubling. Chief among them? The new job stability provisions would kick in next summer, creating the possibility for mass dismissal of current lecturers, the union representing lecturers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no “ulterior motive,” said Letitia Silas, head of labor relations for the UC, the state’s third-largest employer, in an interview with CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now there may be signs of resolution for the two sides. On Friday, for the first time since June, the lecturer union and UC officials will meet, to discuss the latest contract proposal. [aside postID=\"news_11796182\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that our comprehensive package proposal is fair and competitive, including our proposal on wages,” said Silas, adding that the UC’s latest offer “does respond to the issues that the union has raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a meeting lecturers have sought since last week and threatened to strike over if they had not gotten it. Still, another strike may occur later in the fall if the lecturer union doesn’t get the contract terms it wants. Hundreds of tenured and tenure-track professors of the UC have pledged to cancel classes in solidarity with lecturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe it’s the UC administration’s fault for not coming to a resolution sooner, and for not ending this impasse,” said Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a Democrat from San José and chair of the Assembly committee on labor and employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and 11 other assemblymembers have signed a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/UC-AFT-Letter-1.pdf\">letter addressed to UC President Michael Drake\u003c/a> that went out Tuesday, urging him to “prioritize labor peace and job stability for lecturers.” Other lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sen-Pan-Letter-to-President-Drake.pdf\">have issued their own letters\u003c/a> with the same sentiment, such as Dr. Richard Pan, a former UC faculty member who’s now a Senate Democrat representing Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there may be limits to mutual understanding. The UC denies that lecturers are being pushed out of their positions to make way for cheaper instructors, a chief union allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether lecturers leave of their own volition, Silas, the head of UC’s labor relations, said, “Yes, some do.” Does that imply most leave for other reasons, such as being pushed out? Silas didn’t directly answer that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The term ‘pushed out’ is a mischaracterization,” Silas said. “The university has proposed to continue the dialogue with the union … if there does appear to be an issue of a trend, and to address those things with the union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-how-did-we-get-here\">How did we get here?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For more than two years UC-AFT, the union representing lecturers, has been at a standstill with the UC Office of the President over a new labor contract that provides them with greater job stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-lecturers/\">A CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> showed that a quarter of lecturers — instructors typically with doctorates who provide about a third of the instruction undergraduates at the UC receive — don’t come back annually. Though the data CalMatters obtained doesn’t show why lecturers churn at rates higher than other education workers, a key grievance among them is that the UC doesn’t offer continuous work. Instead, most lecturers have to reapply for their jobs every quarter or year and rarely know whether they’ll have a job after their short contracts expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Core to the union’s demands is a promise to have lecturers evaluated so that their bosses can make informed hiring and dismissal decisions. Such a review system doesn’t exist at the UC for most lecturers, though it does at the larger California State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some students, the lack of an evaluation for lecturers is perplexing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want my teacher to be someone that knows what they’re doing,” said Sofia Stuart, a second-year biology major at UCLA who took part in a protest organized by lecturers last week. Without lecturer reviews, the UC could just hire inexperienced lecturers or renew ineffective ones, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natalie Lim, another UCLA student at the protest, held a sign calling for multiyear contracts for lecturers. “I want my institution to have morals and it doesn’t really feel like that right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from lawmakers zeroes in on the lack of an evaluation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By refusing to evaluate lecturers or use a merit-based retention process, the University also fails to foster a skilled teaching faculty, instead punishing experience and letting excellent faculty go arbitrarily,” the letter said. “Sadly, UC students are being cheated of educational continuity and dependable mentorship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-job-stability-and-evaluations\">Job stability and evaluations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The latest UC offer would go a long way to assuring more job stability for lecturers, but with key caveats. [aside tag=\"education\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system now proposes three types of contracts of increasing length that add up to six years: a one-year contract, then a two-year contract and finally a three-year contract. That’s more stability than the UC’s previous offer of two one-year contracts followed \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/news/2021/bargaining-update-for-non-senate-instructional-unit.html\">by two two-year contracts\u003c/a>. None of those came with any promise of evaluations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC is also proposing a formal review before the three-year contract, the first such offer in these negotiations and a big win for lecturers. But UC is proposing just an “assessment” before the two-year contract. And the union doesn’t really know what that means. Lecturers don’t have clarity on the factors upon which a review would be based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC’s summary of its latest offer last Monday mentioned a review process after three years but not after one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silas, the UC labor relations chief, disputes that lecturers after their first year wouldn’t get an evaluation based on their teaching ability. “I’ll have to say that that’s probably an oversight on my part,” she said, in response to a question about why the summary letter omitted a reference to a first-year review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the average duration for a lecturer at the UC is two years, having job security earlier in their tenures would likely go a long way to lowering lecturer churn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal offer’s language on a review after the first year “doesn’t even come close to the robust evaluation after the third year,” said Mia McIver, president of the lecturer union and herself a lecturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even the new review process after three years comes with asterisks that alarm the union. One says that a lecturer who passes their evaluation and is owed a three-year contract can still be hired for just a year if the department thinks the class the lecturer is teaching won’t be around the following year.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Natalie Lim, UCLA student\"]\"I want my institution to have morals and it doesn’t really feel like that right now.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McIver said that may look fair, but what happens if the department decides to keep the class anyway? The lecturer still won’t be able to have the class back, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s less movement on matters of pay. The union wants bigger raises than what the UC is offering, which is about 4% in the first year of the five-year contract and 3% annually thereafter. Other lecturers would get additional bumps and extra merit pay. The lecturers say the UC can offer more across the board, citing the 5% increase in state support the recent state budget sent the UC’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC argues it offers some of the best pay to lecturers among top research universities. “In October 2019, UC systemwide’s average salary on an annualized basis was $71,068 for pre-six lecturers and $92,693 for continuing lecturers,” wrote Ryan King, a UC spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-the-uc-offer-on-pay\">The UC offer on pay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But that number is misleading: More than half of lecturers are part-time, according to a CalMatters review of UC data the lecturer union shared, meaning most lecturers don’t get that annualized pay. And many lecturers work one term but not the next. A CalMatters analysis of wage data shows that lecturers on average make close to $33,000, while more permanent academic faculty make three to six times as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major issue is how much a lecturer is paid per class. Basically, lecturers get paid a percentage of an annual salary based on the “workload” of each class. The union is upset that the same classes can be counted as, for example, one-seventh of full-time work or one-ninth depending on the campus. They want consistency throughout the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/b34052e0-5e52-48fd-b580-dc706277d01d?src=embed\" title=\"UC professor pay\" width=\"800\" height=\"1051\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For lecturers, those fractions matter: For one, the higher the percentage of full-time work, the greater the pay. Also, health benefits can kick in at around 44% or 50% of full-time work, depending on how many hours a lecturer works in the year. So every extra fraction of workload goes a long way to determining whether a lecturer has health insurance through the UC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California should be a responsible employer and provide accessible, affordable, quality health benefits and a living wage for all of its employees so that no UC employee must rely on public assistance,” wrote Sen. Pan. His letter noted that some UC lecturers rely on Medi-Cal because they’re ineligible for UC health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-will-lecturers-strike\">Will lecturers strike?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>McIver, the union president, doesn’t know whether lecturers will strike. She said they’d rather have a settled contract. “The things that we need to cross the finish line of this contract are not onerous for our employer,” McIver said. As far as the union is concerned, the ball is in UC’s court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s bargaining meeting with the UC “is a positive step,” McIver said. But the union’s lecturers will decide whether they like the offer the UC is presenting, so it’s impossible to gauge how close to a resolution both sides are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need our lecturers,” Silas said. “We appreciate and value our lecturers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No strike about the contract terms can happen until a state-led labor mediation process runs its course. Both sides are in mediation, but Friday’s meeting is independent of that state-led process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Lecturers said they would strike in the fall if they don't see their contract goals met, and hundreds of tenured and tenure-track professors of the UC have pledged to cancel classes in solidarity.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1634926831,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://e.infogram.com/b34052e0-5e52-48fd-b580-dc706277d01d"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":41,"wordCount":1896},"headData":{"title":"Pressure Mounts on UC System to Reach Agreement with Lecturers as Strike Looms | KQED","description":"Lecturers said they would strike in the fall if they don't see their contract goals met, and hundreds of tenured and tenure-track professors of the UC have pledged to cancel classes in solidarity.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11893226 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11893226","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/10/21/pressure-mounts-on-uc-system-to-reach-agreement-with-lecturers-as-strike-looms/","disqusTitle":"Pressure Mounts on UC System to Reach Agreement with Lecturers as Strike Looms","source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"www.calmatters.org","nprByline":"Mikhail Zinshteyn","path":"/news/11893226/pressure-mounts-on-uc-system-to-reach-agreement-with-lecturers-as-strike-looms","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With the threat of multiple strikes this fall that could cancel instruction for a third of undergraduate students, the University of California has inched closer to meeting some demands of its more than 6,000 lecturers. It’s a move that coincides with increased pressure from state lawmakers to resolve the labor dispute that has been going on for more than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lecturers say the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/LS-ltr-to-IX-unit-re-AFT-proposal_101221_FINAL.pdf\">UC’s latest offer from last Monday\u003c/a> — which promises increased job security — is a step in the right direction. But they’re not pleased yet because it falls way short of the salary bumps they seek and includes other loopholes they find troubling. Chief among them? The new job stability provisions would kick in next summer, creating the possibility for mass dismissal of current lecturers, the union representing lecturers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no “ulterior motive,” said Letitia Silas, head of labor relations for the UC, the state’s third-largest employer, in an interview with CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now there may be signs of resolution for the two sides. On Friday, for the first time since June, the lecturer union and UC officials will meet, to discuss the latest contract proposal. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11796182","label":"Related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that our comprehensive package proposal is fair and competitive, including our proposal on wages,” said Silas, adding that the UC’s latest offer “does respond to the issues that the union has raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a meeting lecturers have sought since last week and threatened to strike over if they had not gotten it. Still, another strike may occur later in the fall if the lecturer union doesn’t get the contract terms it wants. Hundreds of tenured and tenure-track professors of the UC have pledged to cancel classes in solidarity with lecturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe it’s the UC administration’s fault for not coming to a resolution sooner, and for not ending this impasse,” said Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a Democrat from San José and chair of the Assembly committee on labor and employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and 11 other assemblymembers have signed a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/UC-AFT-Letter-1.pdf\">letter addressed to UC President Michael Drake\u003c/a> that went out Tuesday, urging him to “prioritize labor peace and job stability for lecturers.” Other lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sen-Pan-Letter-to-President-Drake.pdf\">have issued their own letters\u003c/a> with the same sentiment, such as Dr. Richard Pan, a former UC faculty member who’s now a Senate Democrat representing Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there may be limits to mutual understanding. The UC denies that lecturers are being pushed out of their positions to make way for cheaper instructors, a chief union allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether lecturers leave of their own volition, Silas, the head of UC’s labor relations, said, “Yes, some do.” Does that imply most leave for other reasons, such as being pushed out? Silas didn’t directly answer that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The term ‘pushed out’ is a mischaracterization,” Silas said. “The university has proposed to continue the dialogue with the union … if there does appear to be an issue of a trend, and to address those things with the union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-how-did-we-get-here\">How did we get here?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For more than two years UC-AFT, the union representing lecturers, has been at a standstill with the UC Office of the President over a new labor contract that provides them with greater job stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/uc-workforce-lecturers/\">A CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> showed that a quarter of lecturers — instructors typically with doctorates who provide about a third of the instruction undergraduates at the UC receive — don’t come back annually. Though the data CalMatters obtained doesn’t show why lecturers churn at rates higher than other education workers, a key grievance among them is that the UC doesn’t offer continuous work. Instead, most lecturers have to reapply for their jobs every quarter or year and rarely know whether they’ll have a job after their short contracts expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Core to the union’s demands is a promise to have lecturers evaluated so that their bosses can make informed hiring and dismissal decisions. Such a review system doesn’t exist at the UC for most lecturers, though it does at the larger California State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some students, the lack of an evaluation for lecturers is perplexing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want my teacher to be someone that knows what they’re doing,” said Sofia Stuart, a second-year biology major at UCLA who took part in a protest organized by lecturers last week. Without lecturer reviews, the UC could just hire inexperienced lecturers or renew ineffective ones, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natalie Lim, another UCLA student at the protest, held a sign calling for multiyear contracts for lecturers. “I want my institution to have morals and it doesn’t really feel like that right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from lawmakers zeroes in on the lack of an evaluation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By refusing to evaluate lecturers or use a merit-based retention process, the University also fails to foster a skilled teaching faculty, instead punishing experience and letting excellent faculty go arbitrarily,” the letter said. “Sadly, UC students are being cheated of educational continuity and dependable mentorship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-job-stability-and-evaluations\">Job stability and evaluations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The latest UC offer would go a long way to assuring more job stability for lecturers, but with key caveats. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"education","label":"Related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system now proposes three types of contracts of increasing length that add up to six years: a one-year contract, then a two-year contract and finally a three-year contract. That’s more stability than the UC’s previous offer of two one-year contracts followed \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/news/2021/bargaining-update-for-non-senate-instructional-unit.html\">by two two-year contracts\u003c/a>. None of those came with any promise of evaluations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC is also proposing a formal review before the three-year contract, the first such offer in these negotiations and a big win for lecturers. But UC is proposing just an “assessment” before the two-year contract. And the union doesn’t really know what that means. Lecturers don’t have clarity on the factors upon which a review would be based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC’s summary of its latest offer last Monday mentioned a review process after three years but not after one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silas, the UC labor relations chief, disputes that lecturers after their first year wouldn’t get an evaluation based on their teaching ability. “I’ll have to say that that’s probably an oversight on my part,” she said, in response to a question about why the summary letter omitted a reference to a first-year review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the average duration for a lecturer at the UC is two years, having job security earlier in their tenures would likely go a long way to lowering lecturer churn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal offer’s language on a review after the first year “doesn’t even come close to the robust evaluation after the third year,” said Mia McIver, president of the lecturer union and herself a lecturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even the new review process after three years comes with asterisks that alarm the union. One says that a lecturer who passes their evaluation and is owed a three-year contract can still be hired for just a year if the department thinks the class the lecturer is teaching won’t be around the following year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"\"I want my institution to have morals and it doesn’t really feel like that right now.\"","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Natalie Lim, UCLA student","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McIver said that may look fair, but what happens if the department decides to keep the class anyway? The lecturer still won’t be able to have the class back, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s less movement on matters of pay. The union wants bigger raises than what the UC is offering, which is about 4% in the first year of the five-year contract and 3% annually thereafter. Other lecturers would get additional bumps and extra merit pay. The lecturers say the UC can offer more across the board, citing the 5% increase in state support the recent state budget sent the UC’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC argues it offers some of the best pay to lecturers among top research universities. “In October 2019, UC systemwide’s average salary on an annualized basis was $71,068 for pre-six lecturers and $92,693 for continuing lecturers,” wrote Ryan King, a UC spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-the-uc-offer-on-pay\">The UC offer on pay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But that number is misleading: More than half of lecturers are part-time, according to a CalMatters review of UC data the lecturer union shared, meaning most lecturers don’t get that annualized pay. And many lecturers work one term but not the next. A CalMatters analysis of wage data shows that lecturers on average make close to $33,000, while more permanent academic faculty make three to six times as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major issue is how much a lecturer is paid per class. Basically, lecturers get paid a percentage of an annual salary based on the “workload” of each class. The union is upset that the same classes can be counted as, for example, one-seventh of full-time work or one-ninth depending on the campus. They want consistency throughout the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/b34052e0-5e52-48fd-b580-dc706277d01d?src=embed\" title=\"UC professor pay\" width=\"800\" height=\"1051\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For lecturers, those fractions matter: For one, the higher the percentage of full-time work, the greater the pay. Also, health benefits can kick in at around 44% or 50% of full-time work, depending on how many hours a lecturer works in the year. So every extra fraction of workload goes a long way to determining whether a lecturer has health insurance through the UC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California should be a responsible employer and provide accessible, affordable, quality health benefits and a living wage for all of its employees so that no UC employee must rely on public assistance,” wrote Sen. Pan. His letter noted that some UC lecturers rely on Medi-Cal because they’re ineligible for UC health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-will-lecturers-strike\">Will lecturers strike?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>McIver, the union president, doesn’t know whether lecturers will strike. She said they’d rather have a settled contract. “The things that we need to cross the finish line of this contract are not onerous for our employer,” McIver said. As far as the union is concerned, the ball is in UC’s court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s bargaining meeting with the UC “is a positive step,” McIver said. But the union’s lecturers will decide whether they like the offer the UC is presenting, so it’s impossible to gauge how close to a resolution both sides are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need our lecturers,” Silas said. “We appreciate and value our lecturers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No strike about the contract terms can happen until a state-led labor mediation process runs its course. Both sides are in mediation, but Friday’s meeting is independent of that state-led process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11893226/pressure-mounts-on-uc-system-to-reach-agreement-with-lecturers-as-strike-looms","authors":["byline_news_11893226"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_18565","news_30107","news_379","news_794","news_206"],"featImg":"news_11893312","label":"source_news_11893226"},"news_11888480":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11888480","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11888480","score":null,"sort":[1631655009000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"if-newsom-survives-the-recall-the-health-care-unions-who-backed-him-expect-a-push-for-single-payer-health-care","title":"If Newsom Survives the Recall, the Health Care Unions Who Backed Him Expect a Push for Single-Payer Health Care","publishDate":1631655009,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Should Gavin Newsom survive the Republican-driven attempt to oust him from office, the Democratic governor will face the prospect of paying back supporters who coalesced behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the leaders of California’s single-payer movement will want their due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publicly, union leaders say they’re standing with Newsom because he has displayed political courage during the coronavirus pandemic by taking actions such as imposing the nation’s first statewide stay-at-home order. But behind the scenes, they are aggressively pressuring him to follow through on his 2018 campaign pledge to establish a government-run, single-payer health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I expect him to lead on California accomplishing single-payer and being an example for the rest of the country,” said Sal Rosselli, president of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which is urging Newsom to get federal permission to fund such a system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Stephanie Roberson, California Nurses Association\"]'This is about life or death for us. It’s not only about single-payer. It’s about infection control.'[/pullquote]Another union, the California Nurses Association, is pushing Newsom to back state legislation early next year to do away with private health insurance and create a single-payer system. But “first, everyone needs to get out and vote no on this recall,” said Stephanie Roberson, the union’s lead lobbyist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about life or death for us. It’s not only about single-payer. It’s about infection control. It’s about Democratic and working-class values,” she said. “We lose if Republicans take over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, the unions have made hundreds of thousands of dollars in political contributions, \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/DUxw0PbHefI\">funded anti-recall ads\u003c/a> and phone-banked to defend Newsom. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/09/02/newsom-has-strong-support-in-latest-california-recall-survey-1390636\">latest polling indicates Newsom will survive\u003c/a> Tuesday’s recall election, which has become a battle between Democratic ideals and Republican angst over government coronavirus mandates. The Democratic Party closed ranks around the governor early and kept well-known Democratic contenders off the ballot, leaving liberal voters with little choice other than Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a crucial moment for Newsom, and for his supporters who are lining up behind him,” said Mark Peterson, a professor of public policy, political science and law at UCLA who specializes in the politics of health care. “They’re helping him stay in office, but that comes with an expectation for some action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not clear that Newsom — who will face competing demands to pay back other supporters pushing for stronger action on homelessness, climate change and public safety — could deliver such a massive shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reorganizing the health system under a single-payer financing model would be tremendously expensive — \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/tab-for-single-payer-proposal-in-california-could-run-400-billion/\">around $400 billion a year\u003c/a> — and difficult to achieve politically, largely because it would require tax increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='More on Health Care' tag='health-care']The concept already faces fierce opposition from some of Newsom’s strongest supporters, including insurer \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1147130&session=2021&view=activity\">Blue Shield of California\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1146797&session=2021&view=activity\">California Medical Association\u003c/a>, which represents doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No state has a single-payer system. Vermont tried to implement one, but its former governor, a Democrat, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vpr.org/vpr-news/2014-12-17/shumlin-its-not-the-right-time-for-single-payer\">abandoned his plan in 2014\u003c/a> partly because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article201541734.html\">opposition to tax increases\u003c/a>. California would not only need to raise taxes, but also likely would have to seek voter approval to change the state constitution, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20190207.806149/full/\">get permission from the federal government\u003c/a> to use money allocated for Medicare and Medicaid to help fund the new system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-single-payer-shelved-20170623-story.html\">last big push for single-payer in California ended in 2017\u003c/a> because it did not adequately address financing and other challenges. Leading up to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2018/11/29/how-newsoms-big-win-gives-him-a-mandate-on-health-care-715530\">2018 gubernatorial election\u003c/a>, Newsom campaigned on single-payer health care, telling supporters “you have my firm and absolute commitment as your next governor that I will lead the effort to get it done,” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YuReziwss0\">“single-payer is the way to go.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In office, though, Newsom has distanced himself from that promise as he has expanded the existing health care system, which relies on a mix of public and private insurance company payers. For instance, he and Democratic lawmakers imposed a health insurance mandate on Californians and expanded public coverage for lower-income people, both of which enrich health insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has, however, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/healthycaforall/\">convened a commission to study single-payer\u003c/a> and in late May \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/09/Letter-to-President-Biden_05.25.2021.pdf\">wrote to President Joe Biden\u003c/a>, asking him to work with Congress to pass legislation giving states freedom and financing to establish single-payer systems. “California’s spirit of innovation is stifled by federal limits,” Newsom wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888489\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer.jpg\" alt='Protesters hold up a sign that reads, \"Medicare for All! Defeat the Recall! Healthy California Now.\"' width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer.jpg 1350w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists, including those from the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), demonstrate in Sacramento on June 15, 2021, to push Gov. Gavin Newsom to enact single-payer health care and defend him from the Republican-driven recall campaign. “I expect him to lead on California accomplishing single-payer and being an example for the rest of the country,” said Sal Rosselli, president of NUHW. \u003ccite>(Angela Hart/California Healthline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s recall campaign, asked about his stance on single-payer, referred questions to his administration. The governor’s office said in prepared comments that Newsom remains committed to the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Governor Newsom has consistently said that single-payer health care is where we need to be,” spokesperson Alex Stack wrote. “It’s just a question of how we get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stack also highlighted \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/article/california-medicaid-makeover-newsom-california-medi-cal-homeless-public-funds/\">a new initiative that will build up the state’s public health insurance program, Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, saying it “paves a path toward a single-payer principled system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Brandon Harami, Democratic Party’s Progressive Caucus\"]'Newsom has been completely silent on single-payer. A lot of us are really gunning to see some action on his part.'[/pullquote]Activists say Newsom has let them down on single-payer but are standing behind him because he represents their best shot at obtaining it. However, some say they’re not willing to wait long. If Newsom doesn’t embrace single-payer soon, liberal activists say, they will look for a Democratic alternative when he comes up for reelection next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newsom is an establishment candidate, and we as Democrats aren’t shy about ripping the endorsement out from under someone who doesn’t share our values,” said Brandon Harami, Bay Area vice chair of the state Democratic Party’s Progressive Caucus, who opposes the recall. “Newsom has been completely silent on single-payer. A lot of us are really gunning to see some action on his part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San José), who also opposes the recall, will \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/article/new-single-payer-bill-intensifies-newsoms-political-peril/\">reintroduce his single-payer bill\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1400\">AB 1400\u003c/a>, in January after he paused it earlier this year to work on a financing plan. Its chief sponsor is the California Nurses Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using lessons learned from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-single-payer-shelved-20170623-story.html\">failed 2017 attempt to pass single-payer legislation\u003c/a>, the nurses union is deploying activists to pressure state and local lawmakers into supporting the bill. \u003ca href=\"https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2021/21-0002-S83_reso_03-24-21.pdf\">Resolutions have been approved or are pending\u003c/a> in multiple cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an opportunity for California to lead the way on health care,” Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin said before an 11-0 vote backing Kalra’s single-payer bill in late August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalra argued that support from Los Angeles shows his bill is gaining momentum. He also is preparing a new strategy to take on doctors, hospitals, health insurers and other health industry players that oppose single-payer: highlighting their profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are the No. 1 obstacle to this passing,” Kalra said. “They’re going to do whatever they can to discredit me and this movement, but I’m going to turn the mirror around on them and ask why we should continue to pay for wild profits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='recall']An industry coalition called Californians Against the Costly Disruption of Our Health Care was instrumental in killing the 2017 single-payer bill and is already lobbying against Kalra’s measure. The group again argues that single-payer would push people off Medicare and private employer plans and result in less choice in health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Single-payer would “force these millions of Californians who like their health care into a single new, untested government program with no guarantee they could keep their doctor,” coalition spokesperson Ned Wigglesworth said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Ross, president and CEO of the California Endowment, a nonprofit that works to expand health care access, is on Newsom’s single-payer commission. He said it will work through “tension” in the coming months before issuing a recommendation to the governor on the feasibility of single-payer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a camp of single-payer zealots who want the bold stroke of getting to single-payer tomorrow, and the other approach that I call bold incrementalism,” Ross said. “I’m not ruling out any bold stroke on single-payer. I would just want to know how we get it done.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"During the recall election, health care unions strongly supported Gov. Gavin Newsom and they are now expecting that if he wins, he makes single-payer health care a reality in California.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1631665843,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1549},"headData":{"title":"If Newsom Survives the Recall, the Health Care Unions Who Backed Him Expect a Push for Single-Payer Health Care | KQED","description":"During the recall election, health care unions strongly supported Gov. Gavin Newsom and they are now expecting that if he wins, he makes single-payer health care a reality in California.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11888480 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11888480","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/09/14/if-newsom-survives-the-recall-the-health-care-unions-who-backed-him-expect-a-push-for-single-payer-health-care/","disqusTitle":"If Newsom Survives the Recall, the Health Care Unions Who Backed Him Expect a Push for Single-Payer Health Care","source":"Kaiser Health News","sourceUrl":"https://khn.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/author/angela-hart/\">Angela Hart\u003c/a>","path":"/news/11888480/if-newsom-survives-the-recall-the-health-care-unions-who-backed-him-expect-a-push-for-single-payer-health-care","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Should Gavin Newsom survive the Republican-driven attempt to oust him from office, the Democratic governor will face the prospect of paying back supporters who coalesced behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the leaders of California’s single-payer movement will want their due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publicly, union leaders say they’re standing with Newsom because he has displayed political courage during the coronavirus pandemic by taking actions such as imposing the nation’s first statewide stay-at-home order. But behind the scenes, they are aggressively pressuring him to follow through on his 2018 campaign pledge to establish a government-run, single-payer health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I expect him to lead on California accomplishing single-payer and being an example for the rest of the country,” said Sal Rosselli, president of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which is urging Newsom to get federal permission to fund such a system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'This is about life or death for us. It’s not only about single-payer. It’s about infection control.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Stephanie Roberson, California Nurses Association","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Another union, the California Nurses Association, is pushing Newsom to back state legislation early next year to do away with private health insurance and create a single-payer system. But “first, everyone needs to get out and vote no on this recall,” said Stephanie Roberson, the union’s lead lobbyist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about life or death for us. It’s not only about single-payer. It’s about infection control. It’s about Democratic and working-class values,” she said. “We lose if Republicans take over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, the unions have made hundreds of thousands of dollars in political contributions, \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/DUxw0PbHefI\">funded anti-recall ads\u003c/a> and phone-banked to defend Newsom. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/09/02/newsom-has-strong-support-in-latest-california-recall-survey-1390636\">latest polling indicates Newsom will survive\u003c/a> Tuesday’s recall election, which has become a battle between Democratic ideals and Republican angst over government coronavirus mandates. The Democratic Party closed ranks around the governor early and kept well-known Democratic contenders off the ballot, leaving liberal voters with little choice other than Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a crucial moment for Newsom, and for his supporters who are lining up behind him,” said Mark Peterson, a professor of public policy, political science and law at UCLA who specializes in the politics of health care. “They’re helping him stay in office, but that comes with an expectation for some action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not clear that Newsom — who will face competing demands to pay back other supporters pushing for stronger action on homelessness, climate change and public safety — could deliver such a massive shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reorganizing the health system under a single-payer financing model would be tremendously expensive — \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/tab-for-single-payer-proposal-in-california-could-run-400-billion/\">around $400 billion a year\u003c/a> — and difficult to achieve politically, largely because it would require tax increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Health Care ","tag":"health-care"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The concept already faces fierce opposition from some of Newsom’s strongest supporters, including insurer \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1147130&session=2021&view=activity\">Blue Shield of California\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1146797&session=2021&view=activity\">California Medical Association\u003c/a>, which represents doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No state has a single-payer system. Vermont tried to implement one, but its former governor, a Democrat, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vpr.org/vpr-news/2014-12-17/shumlin-its-not-the-right-time-for-single-payer\">abandoned his plan in 2014\u003c/a> partly because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article201541734.html\">opposition to tax increases\u003c/a>. California would not only need to raise taxes, but also likely would have to seek voter approval to change the state constitution, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20190207.806149/full/\">get permission from the federal government\u003c/a> to use money allocated for Medicare and Medicaid to help fund the new system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-single-payer-shelved-20170623-story.html\">last big push for single-payer in California ended in 2017\u003c/a> because it did not adequately address financing and other challenges. Leading up to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2018/11/29/how-newsoms-big-win-gives-him-a-mandate-on-health-care-715530\">2018 gubernatorial election\u003c/a>, Newsom campaigned on single-payer health care, telling supporters “you have my firm and absolute commitment as your next governor that I will lead the effort to get it done,” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YuReziwss0\">“single-payer is the way to go.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In office, though, Newsom has distanced himself from that promise as he has expanded the existing health care system, which relies on a mix of public and private insurance company payers. For instance, he and Democratic lawmakers imposed a health insurance mandate on Californians and expanded public coverage for lower-income people, both of which enrich health insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has, however, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/healthycaforall/\">convened a commission to study single-payer\u003c/a> and in late May \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/09/Letter-to-President-Biden_05.25.2021.pdf\">wrote to President Joe Biden\u003c/a>, asking him to work with Congress to pass legislation giving states freedom and financing to establish single-payer systems. “California’s spirit of innovation is stifled by federal limits,” Newsom wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888489\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer.jpg\" alt='Protesters hold up a sign that reads, \"Medicare for All! Defeat the Recall! Healthy California Now.\"' width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer.jpg 1350w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists, including those from the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), demonstrate in Sacramento on June 15, 2021, to push Gov. Gavin Newsom to enact single-payer health care and defend him from the Republican-driven recall campaign. “I expect him to lead on California accomplishing single-payer and being an example for the rest of the country,” said Sal Rosselli, president of NUHW. \u003ccite>(Angela Hart/California Healthline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s recall campaign, asked about his stance on single-payer, referred questions to his administration. The governor’s office said in prepared comments that Newsom remains committed to the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Governor Newsom has consistently said that single-payer health care is where we need to be,” spokesperson Alex Stack wrote. “It’s just a question of how we get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stack also highlighted \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/article/california-medicaid-makeover-newsom-california-medi-cal-homeless-public-funds/\">a new initiative that will build up the state’s public health insurance program, Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, saying it “paves a path toward a single-payer principled system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Newsom has been completely silent on single-payer. A lot of us are really gunning to see some action on his part.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Brandon Harami, Democratic Party’s Progressive Caucus","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Activists say Newsom has let them down on single-payer but are standing behind him because he represents their best shot at obtaining it. However, some say they’re not willing to wait long. If Newsom doesn’t embrace single-payer soon, liberal activists say, they will look for a Democratic alternative when he comes up for reelection next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newsom is an establishment candidate, and we as Democrats aren’t shy about ripping the endorsement out from under someone who doesn’t share our values,” said Brandon Harami, Bay Area vice chair of the state Democratic Party’s Progressive Caucus, who opposes the recall. “Newsom has been completely silent on single-payer. A lot of us are really gunning to see some action on his part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San José), who also opposes the recall, will \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/article/new-single-payer-bill-intensifies-newsoms-political-peril/\">reintroduce his single-payer bill\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1400\">AB 1400\u003c/a>, in January after he paused it earlier this year to work on a financing plan. Its chief sponsor is the California Nurses Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using lessons learned from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-single-payer-shelved-20170623-story.html\">failed 2017 attempt to pass single-payer legislation\u003c/a>, the nurses union is deploying activists to pressure state and local lawmakers into supporting the bill. \u003ca href=\"https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2021/21-0002-S83_reso_03-24-21.pdf\">Resolutions have been approved or are pending\u003c/a> in multiple cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an opportunity for California to lead the way on health care,” Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin said before an 11-0 vote backing Kalra’s single-payer bill in late August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalra argued that support from Los Angeles shows his bill is gaining momentum. He also is preparing a new strategy to take on doctors, hospitals, health insurers and other health industry players that oppose single-payer: highlighting their profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are the No. 1 obstacle to this passing,” Kalra said. “They’re going to do whatever they can to discredit me and this movement, but I’m going to turn the mirror around on them and ask why we should continue to pay for wild profits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"recall"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>An industry coalition called Californians Against the Costly Disruption of Our Health Care was instrumental in killing the 2017 single-payer bill and is already lobbying against Kalra’s measure. The group again argues that single-payer would push people off Medicare and private employer plans and result in less choice in health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Single-payer would “force these millions of Californians who like their health care into a single new, untested government program with no guarantee they could keep their doctor,” coalition spokesperson Ned Wigglesworth said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Ross, president and CEO of the California Endowment, a nonprofit that works to expand health care access, is on Newsom’s single-payer commission. He said it will work through “tension” in the coming months before issuing a recommendation to the governor on the feasibility of single-payer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a camp of single-payer zealots who want the bold stroke of getting to single-payer tomorrow, and the other approach that I call bold incrementalism,” Ross said. “I’m not ruling out any bold stroke on single-payer. I would just want to know how we get it done.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11888480/if-newsom-survives-the-recall-the-health-care-unions-who-backed-him-expect-a-push-for-single-payer-health-care","authors":["byline_news_11888480"],"categories":["news_457","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_28642","news_16","news_24939","news_20482","news_29901","news_21789","news_28963","news_21509","news_29647","news_22597","news_29900","news_794"],"featImg":"news_11888487","label":"source_news_11888480"},"news_11878989":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11878989","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11878989","score":null,"sort":[1624467269000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"supreme-court-rejects-union-access-to-california-farms-in-blow-to-organized-labor","title":"Supreme Court Rejects Union Access to California Farms in Blow to Organized Labor","publishDate":1624467269,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The Supreme Court on Wednesday tightened the leash on union representatives and their ability to organize farmworkers in California and elsewhere. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue in the case was a California law that allows union organizers to enter farms to speak to workers during non-working hours – before and after work, as well as during lunch – for a set a number of days each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, the court \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20971158-cedar-point-nursery-et-al-v-hassid\">ruled\u003c/a> that the law – enacted nearly 50 years ago after a campaign by famed organizer Cesar Chavez – unconstitutionally appropriates private land by allowing organizers to go on farm property to drum up union support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision is a potentially mortal blow that threatens the very existence of the farmworkers union. However, the ruling stopped short of upending other laws that allow government officials to enter private property to inspect and enforce health and safety rules that cover everything from restaurants to toxic chemical sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court's decision on Wednesday was only the latest in a series of decisions that have aimed directly at the heart of organized labor in the United States. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, in 2018, the court hamstrung public-sector unions' efforts to raise money for collective bargaining. In that decision, the court by a 5-4 vote overturned a 40-year precedent that had allowed unions to collect limited \"fair share\" fees from workers not in the union but who benefited from the terms of the contract that the union negotiated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case decided by the court on Wednesday began in 2015 at Cedar Point Nursery, near the Oregon border. The nursery's owner, Mike Fahner, claimed that union organizers entered the farm at 5 a.m. one morning, without the required notice, and began harassing his workers with bullhorns. The general counsel for the United Farm Workers, Mario Martinez, countered that the people with bullhorns were striking workers, not union organizers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Labor Coverage' tag='labor']When Cedar Point filed a complaint with the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the board found no illegal behavior and dismissed the complaint. Cedar Point, joined by another California grower, appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, arguing they should be able to exclude organizers from their farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court's decision could be disastrous for unions in general, but especially those that represent low-income workers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growers asserted that unions should have no problem organizing workers in the era of the internet. But many of the workers at Cedar Point don't own smartphones and don't have internet access. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, many speak Spanish or indigenous languages and live scattered throughout the area, in motels, labor camps or with friends and family, often moving after just a few weeks when the seasonal harvest is over. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+A+Narrow+Ruling%2C+Supreme+Court+Hands+Farmworkers+Union+A+Loss&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The decision, which strikes down one of Cesar Chavez's longstanding victories, is a potentially mortal blow that threatens the very existence of the farmworkers union.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1624471194,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":480},"headData":{"title":"Supreme Court Rejects Union Access to California Farms in Blow to Organized Labor | KQED","description":"The decision, which strikes down one of Cesar Chavez's longstanding victories, is a potentially mortal blow that threatens the very existence of the farmworkers union.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11878989 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11878989","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/06/23/supreme-court-rejects-union-access-to-california-farms-in-blow-to-organized-labor/","disqusTitle":"Supreme Court Rejects Union Access to California Farms in Blow to Organized Labor","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Patrick T. Fallon","nprByline":"Nina Totenberg and Eric Singerman","nprImageAgency":"AFP via Getty Images","nprStoryId":"1000129827","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1000129827&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/23/1000129827/in-a-narrow-ruling-supreme-court-hands-farmworkers-union-a-loss?ft=nprml&f=1000129827","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 23 Jun 2021 11:38:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 23 Jun 2021 11:04:56 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 23 Jun 2021 11:38:21 -0400","path":"/news/11878989/supreme-court-rejects-union-access-to-california-farms-in-blow-to-organized-labor","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Supreme Court on Wednesday tightened the leash on union representatives and their ability to organize farmworkers in California and elsewhere. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue in the case was a California law that allows union organizers to enter farms to speak to workers during non-working hours – before and after work, as well as during lunch – for a set a number of days each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, the court \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20971158-cedar-point-nursery-et-al-v-hassid\">ruled\u003c/a> that the law – enacted nearly 50 years ago after a campaign by famed organizer Cesar Chavez – unconstitutionally appropriates private land by allowing organizers to go on farm property to drum up union support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision is a potentially mortal blow that threatens the very existence of the farmworkers union. However, the ruling stopped short of upending other laws that allow government officials to enter private property to inspect and enforce health and safety rules that cover everything from restaurants to toxic chemical sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court's decision on Wednesday was only the latest in a series of decisions that have aimed directly at the heart of organized labor in the United States. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, in 2018, the court hamstrung public-sector unions' efforts to raise money for collective bargaining. In that decision, the court by a 5-4 vote overturned a 40-year precedent that had allowed unions to collect limited \"fair share\" fees from workers not in the union but who benefited from the terms of the contract that the union negotiated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case decided by the court on Wednesday began in 2015 at Cedar Point Nursery, near the Oregon border. The nursery's owner, Mike Fahner, claimed that union organizers entered the farm at 5 a.m. one morning, without the required notice, and began harassing his workers with bullhorns. The general counsel for the United Farm Workers, Mario Martinez, countered that the people with bullhorns were striking workers, not union organizers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Labor Coverage ","tag":"labor"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When Cedar Point filed a complaint with the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the board found no illegal behavior and dismissed the complaint. Cedar Point, joined by another California grower, appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, arguing they should be able to exclude organizers from their farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court's decision could be disastrous for unions in general, but especially those that represent low-income workers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growers asserted that unions should have no problem organizing workers in the era of the internet. But many of the workers at Cedar Point don't own smartphones and don't have internet access. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, many speak Spanish or indigenous languages and live scattered throughout the area, in motels, labor camps or with friends and family, often moving after just a few weeks when the seasonal harvest is over. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+A+Narrow+Ruling%2C+Supreme+Court+Hands+Farmworkers+Union+A+Loss&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11878989/supreme-court-rejects-union-access-to-california-farms-in-blow-to-organized-labor","authors":["byline_news_11878989"],"categories":["news_1758","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18538","news_885","news_18269","news_19904","news_20482","news_17968","news_1172","news_794","news_1602"],"featImg":"news_11878990","label":"source_news_11878989"},"news_11878253":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11878253","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11878253","score":null,"sort":[1624118407000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"organized-labor-flexes-power-in-east-bay-assembly-race","title":"Organized Labor Flexes Power in East Bay Assembly Race","publishDate":1624118407,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Powerful California labor groups are flexing their political muscle in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866499/east-bay-state-assembly-candidates-launch-campaigns-to-fill-rob-bontas-seat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campaign for an open state Assembly seat\u003c/a> in the East Bay, spreading endorsements among the leading candidates ahead of a June 29 special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11803534/high-profile-candidates-compete-in-heated-costly-south-bay-senate-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">familiar split\u003c/a> between Democrats allying with either labor or business, leading candidates in the 18th Assembly District have all vowed to be strong allies of unions if elected to the state Legislature. And labor groups have returned the favor: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Catcoach24/status/1396145336272310274?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">aiding candidates\u003c/a> in their door-to-door campaigning and outpacing all other spenders in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's definitely one of the most liberal districts in the state ... so I don't really feel like there's a place for a business Democrat in that district,\" said Andrew Acosta, a Democratic political consultant. \"And it looks like the way the field has rolled out, there probably isn't any place where business would say, 'Yeah we have a candidate here.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This dynamic means that whoever wins the special election (or the Aug. 31 runoff if no candidate receives a majority) will likely be a solid vote for pro-worker policies and progressive tax policy in the Legislature, said Acosta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The division of union support reflects the different backgrounds and policy positions of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866499/east-bay-state-assembly-candidates-launch-campaigns-to-fill-rob-bontas-seat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">race's leading contenders\u003c/a>: Malia Vella, the vice mayor of Alameda, Mia Bonta, the Alameda Unified School District board president and Janani Ramachandran, a social justice attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Democrats in the field, like San Leandro Vice Mayor Victor Aguilar and San Leandro school board member James Aguilar, have also touted their connections to labor — reflecting the union ties of voters in a district that includes Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This district is really unique,\" said Vella. \"We have a lot of working families in Assembly District 18. In fact, this is one of the districts we see tens of thousands of households that have union members in them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878681\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11878681\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50022_IMG_6586-2048x1365-1-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"A woman standing and smiling at the camera with her arms crossed.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malia Vella, city of Alameda vice mayor and candidate for state Assembly in the 18th District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Malia Vella State Assembly)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vella has perhaps the most direct ties to organized labor of any candidate in the race. In addition to her role on the Alameda City Council, she also works as a lawyer for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 856. Vella's support for reforms to ease housing construction and her past backing of project labor agreements in Alameda have won her support and big checks from unions representing construction and electrical workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has been a true champion for us at the city of Alameda, promoting worker-friendly legislation, especially for us at the Building Trades,\" said Andreas Cluver, secretary-treasurer for the Building Trades Council of Alameda County, at a press conference endorsing Vella in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vella, who also counts support from sheet metal workers, plumbers and other industrial workers, says she doubts the commitment of other candidates to labor's cause. She's taken particular aim at Bonta for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in donations from a business interest: southern California card rooms and their executives, who have been among the largest donors to Bonta's campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can say, hey, I'm the organized labor candidate, but if you're getting money from card rooms from Los Angeles, I'd really like to know why,\" said Vella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bonta has an impressive array of labor support in her own right, and like Vella, credits union membership as a defining force in her family's history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Service Employees International Union California, an umbrella labor group encompassing more than a dozen locals, has endorsed both Vella and Bonta. And Bonta has the sole backing of unions representing firefighters and grocery workers, as well as the powerful California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Gardiner, a spokesperson for CTA, said Bonta's leadership on the school board in getting a parcel tax measure passed in 2020 to increase teacher salaries was key in winning over the local educators involved in the endorsement process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Campaigns make very, very, kind of fast friends,\" Bonta said. \"Working on that campaign was definitely a demonstration of us all coming together to lift up our teachers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878683\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11878683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50021_51189892808_d77aa7f25a_o-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is standing and smiling at the camera, her hands are in her jean pockets.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50021_51189892808_d77aa7f25a_o-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50021_51189892808_d77aa7f25a_o-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50021_51189892808_d77aa7f25a_o-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50021_51189892808_d77aa7f25a_o-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50021_51189892808_d77aa7f25a_o-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mia Bonta, Alameda Unified school board president and candidate for state Assembly in the 18th District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mia Bonta campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And the CTA's financial commitment to Bonta's candidacy has surpassed any other labor group's involvement in the special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to sending the maximum $9,700 donation to Bonta's campaign, the teachers union has pitched in $125,000 to an independent expenditure committee (also known as a super PAC) that has spent $312,077 in support of Bonta — running print, radio and TV ads with money from the teachers and groups representing school employees, doctors and dentists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"$300,000 in a low-turnout election is not insignificant,\" said Acosta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comparison, the total combined spending of the other candidates in the race is $258,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike campaigns, independent expenditure committees have no limits on the size of donations they accept. And crucially, none of the unions backing Vella have opened up their wallets to match Bonta's presence on the airwaves with a super PAC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would assume that they would have gotten together and done an [independent expenditure committee] for her, but it's a little late now,\" Acosta added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other unions have prioritized campaign platforms over specific past achievements in their decision to weigh in on the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, representing workers at the region's ports, was an early backer of Ramachandran. The union has been a vocal opponent of the Oakland Athletics stadium project at Howard Terminal, and Ramachandran is the only leading candidate to oppose the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878684\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878684\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut-800x870.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is smiling at the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"870\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut-800x870.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut-160x174.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janani Ramachandran, social justice attorney and candidate for state Assembly in the 18th District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Janani Ramachandran campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"They were one of the first major organizations to endorse me and support me in this race because they weren't thinking about the politicking behind this,\" said Ramachandran. \"They weren't scared about endorsing the wrong candidate or the candidate not backed by the Democratic Party establishment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melvin Mackay, president of the ILWU's Northern California District Council, said Ramachandran \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JananiforCA/status/1380302840959098883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visited Howard Terminal for a tour\u003c/a> and left her hosts impressed with her grasp of the issues surrounding the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She had all the answers that we wanted to hear,\" said Mackay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even candidates who don't enjoy any formal union backing in the race have taken the opportunity to voice support for labor's cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a former union member I am dedicated to empowering unions,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Victor_for_CA/status/1404176291696422916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted Victor Aguilar\u003c/a>, San Leandro's vice mayor. \"We must fight for better working conditions and higher wages!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And James Aguilar, the 21-year-old San Leandro school board member, said his entrance into politics has been shaped by the labor activism of his parents, who participated in strikes as Safeway employees with the United Food and Commercial Workers International union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have this respect and very, very close connection to labor,\" said James Aguilar. \"They've chosen to support other candidates in this race, which is OK, but I'm making sure that I'm still working with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The leading contenders in Assembly District 18 have split endorsements from organized labor. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1624298056,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1210},"headData":{"title":"Organized Labor Flexes Power in East Bay Assembly Race | KQED","description":"The leading contenders in Assembly District 18 have split endorsements from organized labor. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11878253 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11878253","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/06/19/organized-labor-flexes-power-in-east-bay-assembly-race/","disqusTitle":"Organized Labor Flexes Power in East Bay Assembly Race","path":"/news/11878253/organized-labor-flexes-power-in-east-bay-assembly-race","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Powerful California labor groups are flexing their political muscle in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866499/east-bay-state-assembly-candidates-launch-campaigns-to-fill-rob-bontas-seat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campaign for an open state Assembly seat\u003c/a> in the East Bay, spreading endorsements among the leading candidates ahead of a June 29 special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11803534/high-profile-candidates-compete-in-heated-costly-south-bay-senate-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">familiar split\u003c/a> between Democrats allying with either labor or business, leading candidates in the 18th Assembly District have all vowed to be strong allies of unions if elected to the state Legislature. And labor groups have returned the favor: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Catcoach24/status/1396145336272310274?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">aiding candidates\u003c/a> in their door-to-door campaigning and outpacing all other spenders in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's definitely one of the most liberal districts in the state ... so I don't really feel like there's a place for a business Democrat in that district,\" said Andrew Acosta, a Democratic political consultant. \"And it looks like the way the field has rolled out, there probably isn't any place where business would say, 'Yeah we have a candidate here.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This dynamic means that whoever wins the special election (or the Aug. 31 runoff if no candidate receives a majority) will likely be a solid vote for pro-worker policies and progressive tax policy in the Legislature, said Acosta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The division of union support reflects the different backgrounds and policy positions of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866499/east-bay-state-assembly-candidates-launch-campaigns-to-fill-rob-bontas-seat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">race's leading contenders\u003c/a>: Malia Vella, the vice mayor of Alameda, Mia Bonta, the Alameda Unified School District board president and Janani Ramachandran, a social justice attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Democrats in the field, like San Leandro Vice Mayor Victor Aguilar and San Leandro school board member James Aguilar, have also touted their connections to labor — reflecting the union ties of voters in a district that includes Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This district is really unique,\" said Vella. \"We have a lot of working families in Assembly District 18. In fact, this is one of the districts we see tens of thousands of households that have union members in them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878681\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11878681\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50022_IMG_6586-2048x1365-1-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"A woman standing and smiling at the camera with her arms crossed.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malia Vella, city of Alameda vice mayor and candidate for state Assembly in the 18th District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Malia Vella State Assembly)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vella has perhaps the most direct ties to organized labor of any candidate in the race. In addition to her role on the Alameda City Council, she also works as a lawyer for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 856. Vella's support for reforms to ease housing construction and her past backing of project labor agreements in Alameda have won her support and big checks from unions representing construction and electrical workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has been a true champion for us at the city of Alameda, promoting worker-friendly legislation, especially for us at the Building Trades,\" said Andreas Cluver, secretary-treasurer for the Building Trades Council of Alameda County, at a press conference endorsing Vella in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vella, who also counts support from sheet metal workers, plumbers and other industrial workers, says she doubts the commitment of other candidates to labor's cause. She's taken particular aim at Bonta for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in donations from a business interest: southern California card rooms and their executives, who have been among the largest donors to Bonta's campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can say, hey, I'm the organized labor candidate, but if you're getting money from card rooms from Los Angeles, I'd really like to know why,\" said Vella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bonta has an impressive array of labor support in her own right, and like Vella, credits union membership as a defining force in her family's history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Service Employees International Union California, an umbrella labor group encompassing more than a dozen locals, has endorsed both Vella and Bonta. And Bonta has the sole backing of unions representing firefighters and grocery workers, as well as the powerful California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Gardiner, a spokesperson for CTA, said Bonta's leadership on the school board in getting a parcel tax measure passed in 2020 to increase teacher salaries was key in winning over the local educators involved in the endorsement process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Campaigns make very, very, kind of fast friends,\" Bonta said. \"Working on that campaign was definitely a demonstration of us all coming together to lift up our teachers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878683\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11878683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50021_51189892808_d77aa7f25a_o-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is standing and smiling at the camera, her hands are in her jean pockets.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50021_51189892808_d77aa7f25a_o-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50021_51189892808_d77aa7f25a_o-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50021_51189892808_d77aa7f25a_o-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50021_51189892808_d77aa7f25a_o-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50021_51189892808_d77aa7f25a_o-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mia Bonta, Alameda Unified school board president and candidate for state Assembly in the 18th District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mia Bonta campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And the CTA's financial commitment to Bonta's candidacy has surpassed any other labor group's involvement in the special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to sending the maximum $9,700 donation to Bonta's campaign, the teachers union has pitched in $125,000 to an independent expenditure committee (also known as a super PAC) that has spent $312,077 in support of Bonta — running print, radio and TV ads with money from the teachers and groups representing school employees, doctors and dentists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"$300,000 in a low-turnout election is not insignificant,\" said Acosta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comparison, the total combined spending of the other candidates in the race is $258,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike campaigns, independent expenditure committees have no limits on the size of donations they accept. And crucially, none of the unions backing Vella have opened up their wallets to match Bonta's presence on the airwaves with a super PAC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would assume that they would have gotten together and done an [independent expenditure committee] for her, but it's a little late now,\" Acosta added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other unions have prioritized campaign platforms over specific past achievements in their decision to weigh in on the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, representing workers at the region's ports, was an early backer of Ramachandran. The union has been a vocal opponent of the Oakland Athletics stadium project at Howard Terminal, and Ramachandran is the only leading candidate to oppose the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878684\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878684\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut-800x870.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is smiling at the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"870\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut-800x870.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut-160x174.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janani Ramachandran, social justice attorney and candidate for state Assembly in the 18th District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Janani Ramachandran campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"They were one of the first major organizations to endorse me and support me in this race because they weren't thinking about the politicking behind this,\" said Ramachandran. \"They weren't scared about endorsing the wrong candidate or the candidate not backed by the Democratic Party establishment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melvin Mackay, president of the ILWU's Northern California District Council, said Ramachandran \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JananiforCA/status/1380302840959098883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visited Howard Terminal for a tour\u003c/a> and left her hosts impressed with her grasp of the issues surrounding the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She had all the answers that we wanted to hear,\" said Mackay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even candidates who don't enjoy any formal union backing in the race have taken the opportunity to voice support for labor's cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a former union member I am dedicated to empowering unions,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Victor_for_CA/status/1404176291696422916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted Victor Aguilar\u003c/a>, San Leandro's vice mayor. \"We must fight for better working conditions and higher wages!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And James Aguilar, the 21-year-old San Leandro school board member, said his entrance into politics has been shaped by the labor activism of his parents, who participated in strikes as Safeway employees with the United Food and Commercial Workers International union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have this respect and very, very close connection to labor,\" said James Aguilar. \"They've chosen to support other candidates in this race, which is OK, but I'm making sure that I'm still working with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11878253/organized-labor-flexes-power-in-east-bay-assembly-race","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_29293","news_29585","news_29584","news_29347","news_29599","news_17968","news_794"],"featImg":"news_11878352","label":"news"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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