http://communitybenefits.org/ http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1782 <div class="text blurb"><a href="http://www.backonthejob.org/">BackOnTheJob.org</a> serves as a hub for the untold stories of out of work construction workers. </div> Tue, 17 Aug 2010 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1782 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1774 <div class="text blurb">The Partnership for Working Families collaborated with the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO to develop a <a href="/cwa" target="_blank">comprehensive guide to CWAs</a>. </div> Fri, 02 Apr 2010 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1774 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1773 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1773 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1769 <div class="text blurb">The national spotlight is on the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports’ efforts to transform the broken port trucking system. On both coasts our partners have been key players in the fight to end the environmental degradation, health hazards and worker exploitation created by the port trucking industry. </div> http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1769 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1768 <div class="text blurb">In the last several months, CASE has kicked off a pair of jobs campaigns in the city of Phoenix. The more advanced of those campaigns surrounds the job security of between 700 and 1,000 workers in food service, parking, and ground transportation at Sky Harbor Airport. Represented by our partner unions UNITE HERE! Local 631 and UFCW Local 99, those workers have struggled for years to raise the quality of their jobs—winning improvements in wages and health insurance, along with health and safety measures like floor mats for workers who stand on concrete for eight hours a day, forty hours a week. In doing so, those workers have raised the floor for all of the approximately 4,000 terminal service workers at the airport.</div> http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1768 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1766 <div class="text blurb">Beginning January 1st, 2010, California state environmental regulations went into effect requiring all truck drivers to meet new truck engine standards. There was an intervention at the Port of Oakland by Mayor Dellums, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the Port to provide independent truck drivers with a little more time and funding to comply with the state regulations to clean up port trucks. These well-intentioned efforts demonstrate compassion for port truck drivers, as hundreds (if not a thousand) are likely to be out of work if they cannot afford to upgrade their trucks. </div> http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1766 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1765 <div class="text blurb">While the recession in Colorado seems to be on the mend, the state still faces job loss: Colorado’s job shortfall was estimated by the Economic Policy Institute to be 195,191 jobs in November 2009. As promoting the creation of good jobs has long been central to FRESC’s mission, the current recession and recovery efforts provide unique challenges and opportunities for our work. Since commercial and private development has dramatically slowed, we are exploring new strategies to ensure that good jobs are created with public monies. </div> http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1765 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1764 <div class="text blurb">A recently released LAANE study found that the Century Corridor hotel living wage ordinance, combined with the successful negotiation of collective bargaining agreements at four LAX-adjacent hotels, will produce $23.9 million in economic benefits.</div> http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1764 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1763 <div class="text blurb">Orange County’s history of laissez-faire, anti-immigrant extremism dates back to the 1960s, when groups like the John Birch Society and the Orange County School for Anti-Communism used what we would call community organizing techniques to build a grassroots conservative movement in our region. They held house meetings, gathered in church fellowship halls, and went door to door for Barry Goldwater in 1964. In the process, they launched the pro-business, conservative movement that eventually took over our county.</div> http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1763 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1762 <div class="text blurb">Less than three years ago, Pittsburgh UNITED was a small coalition of union, environmental, faith-based and community organizations committed to making change in low-income communities. Today we’re a formidable—and still growing—coalition responsible for winning the first-ever community benefits agreement (CBA) in the City of Pittsburgh, and passage of a law that requires developers who receive City subsidies to create decent, family-sustaining jobs.</div> http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1762 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1761 <div class="text blurb">The Syracuse Alliance for a New Economy (SANE) is in the process of seeking a Community Benefits Agreement with the Board of Directors of the Near Westside Iniative, a major economic development project located in Syracuse, New York. The Near Westside Initiative (NSWI) is a $56 million project that will transform one of the poorest neighborhoods in the United States (according to the last Census) into a community filled with market-rate condominiums, office buildings and an extension of the development currently taking place in downtown Syracuse.</div> http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1761 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1760 <div class="text blurb">While the national health reform debate rages on, a local program to cover the uninsured is now underway in Santa Clara County, California. On March 1, Working Partnerships USA, in partnership with the Santa Clara Family Health Plan and the Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System launched a new health care program for low-wage workers in small businesses called Healthy Workers. The program was developed by the same coalition that created the nation’s first universal health care program for children—the Children’s Health Initiative. </div> http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1760 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1759 <div class="text blurb">Difficult economic times are providing unique challenges—and even greater demand—for the work of the Partnership for Working Families. Our Partners are seizing opportunities in communities across the country to make sure that available funding and new legislation helps to create family-sustaining jobs with career pathways. In other communities, we’re rallying allies to fight against reactionary, mean-spirited efforts to minimize or even reverse workers’ hard-won gains. Together, we are organizing our cities to look ahead and plan for a future of shared prosperity.</div> http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1759 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1755 <div class="text blurb">The City of Milwaukee has earned top prize in the population category of the National League of Cities City Cultural Diversity Awards for implementing the Community Benefits ordinance known as the MORE Ordinance (Milwaukee Opportunities for Restoring Employment).</div> Thu, 18 Mar 2010 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1755 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1754 <div class="text blurb">Check out the Partnership's new brochure, "New Partners, New Approaches to Transform Our Nation's Ports." This exciting publication provides an overview of the broken port trucking industry and highlights the innovative solution offered by the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports.</div> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 http://communitybenefits.org/article.php?id=1754