Jobs With Justice San Francisco Bay Area

Programs: Jobs with justice celebrates an inspiring year with important victories for workers, students and communities of color in san francisco, california and nationally. Bay resistancein 2017, we helped found and convene bay resistance, a network of over 50 organizations across movements and communities. Bay resistance created a rapid response system of over fifteen thousand individuals, mobilizing people to key actions like the muslim ban airport protest. We trained over a thousand people in basic organizing, direct action, and legal observation for ice raid defense. We knocked on doors for over a month and turned people out for may day, successfully defended our health care with die-ins, phone banks and canvassing, shut down white supremacists when they tried to rally in the bay, and are still fighting for a clean dream act. Free city college:fall 2017 marked the culmination of our free city college campaign, when san francisco became the first city in the nation to offer tuition-free higher education for all residents. This important victory has expanded access to college for thousands of diverse students and boosted city college enrollment by fifteen percent. It also serves a model for the growing movement for free higher education statewide and nationally. Good jobs for all campaign:over three dozen new hotels are in the pipeline for construction in san francisco in the coming years. Jobs with justice co-convened the good jobs for all campaign to ensure developers of new hotels hire residents from our community, provide linguistically and culturally appropriate workforce training and ensure workers' right to organize a union free from intimidation. Save st. Luke's skilled nursing subacute unit:in a big victory for health care justice, we mobilized grassroots community pressure that forced sutter cpmc to halt their planned eviction of twenty-eight severely ill patients from the st. Lukes hospital skilled nursing subacute unit. The patients, who are all elderly and disabled people of color on medi-cal, faced relocation to facilities as far away as sacramento due to the deficit of subacute beds in san francisco. The patients families organized to fight the eviction of their loved with support from san franciscans for healthcare, housing, jobs and justice, and a labor community coalition convened by jobs with justice along with supervisors ahsha safai, hilary ronen and other healthcare advocates.