Workers ask for labor justice at S.F. City hall. (by Leyney Parra)
by news services
A group of labor representatives,workers and community leaders gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall under a new umbrella organization,San Francisco Progressive Workers Alliance (SFPWA) to introduce a low wage worker Bill of Rights and unite against the Mayor’s budget cuts, which cuts vital services and balances the budget off the backs of the most vulnerable.
Low-wage workers are in crisis with the prominence of wage theft, exploitation,and unemployment, and the crisis will only grow with the Mayor’s so-called “balanced budget,” an organization’s communiqué said.
The new organization is comprised of members of Latino Day-laborers and Domestic workers of the Day Laborer Program, Women’s Collective and Mujeres Unidas y Activas in the Mission, Filipino Caregivers of the Filipino Community Center in the Excelsior, African American and Latino workers of POWER in the Bayview and others.
On Wednesday the PWA will announce the launch of a Low-Wage Worker Bill of Rights that will: 1) Call for job opportunities and training; 2) Protect workers rights and enforce labor laws; 3) Support responsible businesses;4) Protect the social safety net, and 5) Demand equal treatment for all workers because in San Francisco there should be NO second-class workers!
