|
The South Bay Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SBLC), is the labor council of Santa Clara and San Benito counties in California's Bay Area. The SBLC is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, one of the national labor confederations of the United States. The SBLC represents over 100,000 men and women of 89 unions in Silicon Valley. The current Executive Officer is (Ben Field ). The organization gained public attention in the late 1990s for supporting legislative efforts to redistribute income to Silicon Valley's poor and low income residents.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Building Power in the New Economy: The South Bay Labor Council )〕 In the General Election of November 2012, the South Bay Labor Council led a campaign to pass Measure D, an initiative developed by sociology students at San Jose State University to raise the minimum wage in San Jose. The measure passed with 60 percent of the vote. The progressive think-tank Working Partnerships, USA began as the policy arm of the SBLC, but has since separated and become an independent organization. The South Bay Labor Council runs one of the largest, most sophisticated organizational (campaign operations ) in Northern California. == History == In the late 1930s Santa Clara County's trade unions wrestled with the AFL-west for control of the then existing central labor council. Twice, in 1938 and 1939, the council had its charter revoked after electing leaders disapproved of by the national organization. The South Bay Labor Council in its current form was chartered in 1958 as the Central Labor Council of Santa Clara County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.local270.com/resources.html )〕 In 1987 council Executive Director Rick Sawyer persuaded then mayor Tom McEnery to negotiate an organizing agreement at the newly opened Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. The agreement led to the unionization of every major hotel in downtown San Jose by UniteHERE Local 19, and to a prevailing wage commitment for city contracts above $50,000. In 1994 Amy B. Dean was appointed CEO of the council. In 1995 Dean founded (Working Partnerships, USA ), a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to policy research advocacy and community coalition building. With Working Partnerships, USA's research assistance, the SBLC was able to push through City Council legislation that put conditions on a Santa Clara County tax rebate program, including a written commitment to job creation listing the numbers of jobs planned to be created with tax dollars. The terms led to the disuse of the rebate program. In 1998, with research assistance from Working Partnerships, USA, and organizing assistance from local churches, the SBLC was able to push the San Jose City Council to pass what was at that time the highest living-wage ordinance in the country for municipal employees and city contractors. The SBLC's political influence in the city also grew that year with the election of Education and Outreach Director Cindy Chavez to the San Jose City Council. In 2000 the SBLC authored and spearheaded a campaign to establish universal child healthcare in San Jose. After the plan failed in City Council, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors offered the necessary funding. In 2001 SBLC succeeded in winning 5,000 units of affordable housing in a Coyote Valley development project. In 2003 the SBLC negotiated a community benefits agreement with the CIM Group over a downtown San Jose development project. That year Dean left the council, and deputy director Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins became executive director. In 2006 Chavez left City Council for a failed mayoral bid. After Lamkins left the SBLC in 2009 Chavez was appointed executive director of the labor council. In 2013 Chavez left the SBLC after winning office in the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. The current executive director of the SBLC is Ben Field. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「South Bay Labor Council」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|