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Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2022
Level City or Town
State(s) Washington
Source Seattle City Council
Policy Areas Economic Justice
This resolution expresses the Seattle City Council's support for workers at Starbucks in Seattle who are attempting to form a union. It urges Starbucks to accept card check neutrality and allow their workforce to discuss unionization free from threats, intimidation, anti-union propaganda,...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2021
Level National
State(s) All States
Source Economic Policy Institute
Policy Areas Economic Justice
As federal and state governments move toward marijuana legalization, labor conditions within the industry need to be evaluated. Currently, many of the employers in the marijuana industry take a "low road" approach to their workforce, with low wages, poor to no benefits, and frequent...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year -
Level Other Boards and Agencies
State(s) All States
Source UCLA Labor Center
Policy Areas Economic Justice
Worker centers often lack resources but are crucial to addressing labor issues like wage theft, workforce development, immigrant rights, and workplace safety. To tackle this, the AFL-CIO has encouraged affiliations between worker centers, unions, and state labor federations to enhance...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2020
Level City or Town, County, State
State(s) All States
Source Center for American Progress
Policy Areas Economic Justice
Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) create quality jobs and equitable economic development by aligning the practices of large-scale projects with local needs. CBAs set standards for hiring practices, initiatives for hiring underrepresented workers, wage standards, green building...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2021
Level County
State(s) Virginia
Source The Commonwealth Institute
Policy Areas Economic Justice
A review of county employee salaries reveals that many public employees in Loudoun County cannot afford to live in the county they serve. This brief highlights how collective bargaining could bring their pay closer to private sector pay levels and also reduce racial and gender pay...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2023
Level City or Town, County, State
State(s) All States
Source Economic Policy Institute
Policy Areas Community Development, Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice
Economic inequality, worker disempowerment, and systemic barriers to equity continue to challenge state and local governments. This policy agenda outlines key solutions, including expanding collective bargaining rights, repealing "right-to-work" laws, raising minimum wages, and ensuring...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2011
Level State
State(s) Wisconsin
Source Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS)
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Education, Public Safety
Wisconsin's budget deficit is not caused by public-sector workers' compensation but stems from a sharp decline in revenue due, driven by the housing bubble and Wall Street's financial crimes. Public employees, including teachers and essential workers, are under-compensated compared...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2019
Level State
State(s) Colorado
Source EARN
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Education
Colorado has struggled with public sector employee turnover, reducing the quality of government services, and costing taxpayers more than $10,000 per exiting worker. Colorado's labor- management partnerships have improved not worker retention, largely because compensation issues are...

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2023
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Office of Workforce and Economic Development
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Finance & Procurement
To develop the local workforce, San Francisco's Local Hiring Policy for Construction establishes local hiring mandates for public projects over $600,000. Local hire employment thresholds are set both for individual trades and for apprentices, and contractors must meet the cities targeted...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level City or Town, County, State
State(s) All States
Source Center for American Progress
Policy Areas Economic Justice
This report highlights policy mechanisms that state and local governments can use to raise wages at an industry or sectoral level and to support worker organizations. Recommendations include, but are not limited to, using wage boards to establish industry-wide pay standards, partnering...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2012
Level City or Town
State(s) New Jersey
Source City of Jersey City
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Finance & Procurement
This ordinance establishes a minimum wage rate for workers on building services, janitorial, and unarmed security contracts by combining the most optimal benefits and practices from existing prevailing wage ordinances. It requires that these workers should are paid the highest of...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2023
Level City or Town, County, Other Boards and Agencies
State(s) California
Source UCLA Labor Center
Policy Areas Civil Rights, Economic Justice, Health
Workers in the nail salon industry suffer from unsafe working conditions, wage theft, and employment misclassification. This report explores two potential models for solving these: High Road Training Partnerships (HRTPs) and sectoral bargaining legislation. Comparing the two approaches,...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2024
Level National, State
State(s) All States
Source Roosevelt Institute
Policy Areas Data & Technology, Economic Justice
The effect of new technology on workers is often overlooked because it has so far affected marginalized, low-wage workers in the taxi, retail, warehousing, and health care. However, artificial intelligence or AI threatens workers across the income and occupational spectrum. This brief...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2020
Level National, State
State(s) Georgia, Texas
Source Economic Policy Institute
Policy Areas Economic Justice
Despite federal law guaranteeing the right to unionize, workers are harmed by employers' union busting tactics and the National Labor Relations Board's flawed election system, which fails to protect workers' rights. This report illustrates these tactics and failures through case studies...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2022
Level State
State(s) California
Source Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
Policy Areas Children & Families, Economic Justice, Education, Finance & Procurement
This report analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the early care and education system using data from the 2020 California Early Care and Education (ECE) Workforce Study. Findings show that the pandemic worsened existing disparities within the ECE workforce based on program type and funding....

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2021
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Policy Matters Ohio
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development
For more than two centuries, corporations have extracted enormous wealth from the Appalachian region for the profit of owners and shareholders, leaving the area with high rates of poverty, unemployment and low wages. To navigate around these issues, along with the severely changing...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2021
Level City or Town, County, State
State(s) All States
Source Roosevelt Institute
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Finance & Procurement
Successful workforce training programs build worker power by both imparting new skills and reducing obstacles to finding new jobs or maintaining existing ones. This guide provides an overview of existing workforce training nonprofits and outlines best practices for developing workforce...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2024
Level City or Town
State(s) All States, Missouri, Wisconsin
Source High Road Strategy Center
Policy Areas Community Development, Economic Justice, Finance & Procurement
Sports stadium deals often fail to deliver promised economic growth. Research consistently shows that they provide minimal improvements to employment or wages, and also divert crucial funds from essential services. To address these shortcomings and ensure that public investments genuinely...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2023
Level State
State(s) Maine
Source Maine Center for Economic Policy
Policy Areas Economic Justice
Labor unions are essential in delivering better wages, benefits, and working conditions for all workers, especially women and people of color. Public approval of unions is the highest it has been in 60 years, but the share of workers represented by unions continues to decline, due...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2021
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source International Labour Organization
Policy Areas Economic Justice
With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, large portions of the world’s workforce shifted to homeworking, joining hundreds of millions of other workers who had already been working from home for decades. Given the continued struggle to improve the rights and working conditions...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2023
Level City or Town, State
State(s) All States
Source EARN
Policy Areas Economic Justice
Workers face economic threats including eroding wages, unfair firings, union busting, and entrenched occupational segregation. As workers organize to fight back, they need local policymakers to implement new policies that raise labor standards and crack down on abuses. This report...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2019
Level City or Town, School District
State(s) California
Source LAANE
Policy Areas Community Development, Education
In January 2019, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) held a six-day strike in response to challenges facing The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), resulting from LAUSD’s inability to raise local property taxes and the growing charter school sector that draws funding away...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2020
Level State
State(s) All States
Source BlueGreen Alliance
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Environment & Natural Resources
Decisionmakers across the country are putting forward policies to fight climate that is critical to creating a healthier, more resilient future. As climate change’s impact on both the United States and the world continues to grow, policies must be made to build a cleaner, safer, and...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2022
Level City or Town
State(s) Virginia
Source City of Richmond
Policy Areas Civil Rights, Economic Justice
This ordinance grants employees the right to form, join, assist, and pay dues or contributions to employee organizations; to bargain collectively through an exclusive bargaining representative of their own choosing; and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective...

Type Act or Session Law
Year -
Level City or Town
State(s) North Carolina
Source Durnham Workers Rights Commission
Policy Areas Economic Justice
The Workers' Rights Commission (WRC) advocates for worker issues by advocating for collective bargaining rights, conducting community-based research and recommending policies to the Durham City Council. Members are comprised of representatives from different sectors, demographics,...

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