LAANE Wins Good jobs and a clean environment for the 21st century This was our City Roxana Tynan, Executive Director

In 1993, was reeling in the aftermath of a civil unrest born of poverty and injustice. The city had been hemorrhaging middle- class jobs since the end of the Cold War, when the aerospace industry, the region’s largest private sector employer, began downsizing and eventually shuttered almost all Southern manufacturing. This loss of dependable and largely union work, coupled with a nationwide flurry of corporate restructuring and government deregulation, created economic disparity, job insecurity and pollution in Los Angeles’ largest remaining industries.

Many working families were left feeling hopeless and forgotten. Cynicism about government rose as neighborhood resources dwindled, police violence against communities of color continued unabated and economic forces pitted L.A.’s communities against each other in a struggle for autonomy and dignity. Meanwhile, immigrants from Mexico and refugees from war-torn Central America were scraping by on poverty wages, keeping the city’s economy on life support at great personal cost and peril.

The April 29, 1992 Rodney King verdict lit a match to the incendiary disenfranchisement of Los Angeles’ working poor. When federal troops finally stood down on May 9, it was painfully clear that Los Angeles had reached a critical turning point: it could suffer the same devastating fate that befell Detroit after the auto industry collapse, or it could find a way to avert it.

This was the city into which LAANE was born. And this is how we changed it. “[LAANE IS] One of the nation’s leading advocacy groups for Low-wage Workers.” - New York Times

1 2 How We win bullhorn Our Tools for creating comprehensive change We assemble We Find broad coalitions Win-Win Solutions

There is strength in numbers. LAANE excels LAANE creates innovative but sound policy at bringing together small businesses, labor, initiatives. Our policies are comprehensive, with We pick We Conduct religious and community organizations, smart projects exhaustive research strong recommendations on how to fix specific educational institutions, environmental and issues and ensure that people who are direcetly health organizations and neighborhood activists impacted drive the development of the solutions. LAANE is made up of researchers, community organizers, We find out exactly how, why and where in order to find common ground. It takes buy-in Different policy proposals are presented to local communicators and policy experts. We look at communities problems go unchecked. Ultimately, from many partners to build the strong coalitions elected officials and eventually put to a vote. with seemingly intractable problems of unemployment, we ask what actions can be taken to needed to create change. Community Benefits Agreements are one such pollution and ineffectual or counterproductive address the most pressing issues and success, allowing developers and residents to get development, and we ask: How can we organize the set the course toward a more thriving together and communicate their needs. community to address this issue? We then assess the community and economy. landscape in terms of business, politics, the environment What emerges is a plan beneficial to both and the needs and desires of the local community. We Strong research requires asking We Build business and the community – such as increased consider the opposition and what is possible. Once a questions and getting answers New Bridges local employment, parks and youth centers, strategy is in place, we form a coalition with the muscle not only from information sources affordable housing and daycare facilities. Our and vision to tackle the problem. like academics, public records and LAANE builds partnerships between unlikely effective policy proposals have helped improve industry, but from people themselves – stakeholders by focusing on common goals that the lives of hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles government officials, industry experts benefit the community at large. Our emphasis residents. LAANE’s policies have received national and coalition partners within the on forging a blue-green alliance is a case in recognition and dozens of cities have replicated affected communities. This information point. LAANE brings together labor groups and our policy successes. is compiled with a variety of tools environmentalists who have sometimes clashed (fact sheets, graphs, charts, etc.) and but now work in tandem to create good jobs used to begin designing policy. Only that also protect the environment. LAANE also comprehensive and in-depth research understands the need to promote an industry’s Learn more about can both clarify the root causes of growth, and we champion polices that allow four of our current an issue and point to the companies to thrive while still treating their projects that are right solutions. employees and the environment with dignity. changing the way L.A. does business 3 4 Our Projects:

don’t Waste LA Don’t Waste LA Worker Profile Clean air, Green Jobs & recycling for all

LAANE’s Don’t Waste LA project is creating good jobs, clean air and more recycling for multi-family and commercial buildings while Ricardo Torres, Sanitatio“Thney used to encouraging Southern Californians to be responsible caretakers of call us dirty the environment. Having led the successful effort to pass the Zero garbage men, and Waste LA Franchise Ordinance in 2014, LAANE is now expanding the Worker, Republic Servicetreateds us like program to other parts of the county, such as Long Beach. Not only trash. The truth will Don’t Waste LA and Don’t Waste Long Beach remove waste from landfills and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they will lead to is, we keep the good jobs in recycling-related industries. streets clean.”

Meet Ricardo Torres, Waste Hauler

After arriving in Los Angeles from Tijuana more sanitation industry, reducing pollution and leading The Zero Waste LA Ordinance: by the numbers than 20 years ago, Ricardo Torres found a job in the to widespread workforce improvements. The policy will also improve sanitation industry. He found that workers like him the lives of over 6,000 were not treated with respect and were subject to Ricardo was able to find work with Republic workers who currently handle dangerous working conditions. “They used to call Services and join Teamsters Local 396. Thanks to and sort our city’s waste. us dirty garbage men, and treated us like trash. The the union and the passage of the new ordinance, truth is, we keep the streets clean. We do very hard Ricardo and his coworkers have been able to secure work in order to provide for our families, but we are mandatory health and safety trainings, and are Currently, over 1 million tons also protecting the public and the environment.” provided with proper safety equipment for using of food scraps and yard heavy machinery and handling toxic materials. 90% trash diversion out of trimmings are thrown away Six years ago, LAANE began researching the landfills by 2025 – that’s2 by Angelenos each year. problems and challenges facing the waste Today, because of LAANE’s success in passing the million tons of commercial 2.6 million metric tons of industry in Los Angeles, and soon undertook the Zero Waste LA Ordinance, Ricardo earns a fair waste each year, or about Expanded organics collection greenhouse gas will be organizing and coalition-building that led to the wage and has medical benefits for his family as well nine City Halls’ worth that and composting can create as elliminated, equal to taking eventual passage of the Zero Waste LA Ordinance, as a pension. After 17 years as a renter, he recently would instead be recycled. many as 2,000 new jobs. 517,000 cars off the road. which will radically change the landscape of the purchased a home. 5 6 Our Projects: Clean and Safe Ports GOOD GREEN jobs at the nation’s Goods Gateway

LAANE’s Clean and Safe Ports project is part Trucks Program, mandating that old, dirty trucks of a groundbreaking effort to address the economic be replaced with new, clean-fuel vehicles. The and environmental impacts of the twin Ports of Los result is a 90 percent reduction in diesel emissions, Angeles and Long Beach, the gateway for 43% of allowing communities near the port to breathe the goods entering the . The 12,000- easier. plus trucks that do business at the ports have historically been among the oldest and dirtiest LAANE and the coalition also fought aggressively in the nation, leaving surrounding communities to improve the job standards of port truck drivers. polluted and negatively impacted. Port trucking is one of the most egregious sectors for wage theft, with rampant misclassification Meet Eddie Osoy, Port Truck Driver “What we have is a grotesque In 2008, LAANE and the Coalition for Clean and of drivers as independent contractors. LAANE disparity between the rich and Safe Ports, an alliance of over 200 organizations continues to support these drivers, who are winning poor that is only getting wider.” standing together for responsible development in court, forcing companies to be accountable to Eddie Osoy is a driver for Intermodal Bridge Transport, a - Tom Morello Musician & Activist and policies at the port, won passage of the Clean the law, workers and the community. major trucking company that moves goods from the Port of Los Angeles to big retailers like Target, and is misclassified as an independent contractor. In May 2016, he was called into The Wage Theft Epidemic the company office and fired for fighting to stop the illegal deductions from his paycheck. Over $26 million in wages owed to workers goes unpaid each week in Los Angeles County With the support of his co-workers, LAANE and the Teamsters, alone, and port trucking is one of the sectors he filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board experiencing the most egregious wage theft. (NLRB) and was terminated by his employer for taking action. Drivers are treated as indentured servants and He challenged this termination too, and joined his co-workers charged for basic business expenses, such as on the picket line. fuel, insurance and maintenance. LAANE helps drivers to mount legal challenges to these After Eddie and his co-workers fought back against wage theft, deductions, resulting in successful litigation that he got his job back. He says he will continue to stand up until has won millions of dollars in back wages. they win reclassification and the right to organize. Illegal deductions zeroed out this driver’s paycheck.

7 8 Our Projects: repower LA Creating energy-Saving jobs & building solar for all

RePower LA is LAANE’s citywide coalition Repower LA at-A-Glance: of community groups, environmentalists, through IBEW Local 18 and small businesses and workers advocating Career-Path Jobs LADWP’s Utility Pre-Craft Trainee (UPCT) Program. for expanded energy efficiency and clean “THE TOOLS I HAVE energy investment at the Los Angeles ALREADY GOTTEN CUSTOMER SAVINGS of over $432 million via energy Department of Water and Power (LADWP). efficiency upgrades and rebates. FROM THIS ONE YEAR The coalition’s efforts have paved the way equal A LIFETIME OF for career-path jobs, customer savings and ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS from reducing CO2 by two KNOWLEDGE.” environmental benefits. million metric tons and developing renewable energy.

Meet KEISHA DAVIS, UTILITY PRE-CRAFT TRAINEE

Keisha Davis has always been ambitious. She growth opportunity for Keisha. She has learned Up Next: Sun for everyone attended college on a volleyball scholarship and was how to do equipment maintenance and drive active in student government. Her determination to forklifts and “pie wagons” (large tool transporting excel was only strengthened by racism she says she vans). “Camaraderie and respect are key,” she says. Many LA residents have opted to go solar, but “solar farms” on LADWP property. The plan encountered growing up in San Dimas, a mostly Interacting with primarily male colleagues has not everyone has been able to participate in would also allow qualifying homeowners to white suburb of LA. challenged her and brought out her strengths. Often greening our city and enjoying the savings. have panels installed on their roofs. Community feisty, she has worked to demand respect while also RePower LA is working to ensure that renters Solar panels would be installed by trainees in But after her son’s birth, she dropped out of college drawing from her nurturing and supportive side. and homeowners alike can be part of a program the UPCT Program. to care for him. She worked two jobs, including a that helps them save money, reduce pollution waitressing stint. Witnessing her struggle to make Keisha lives with her boyfriend and son in Woodland and create good jobs. Community Solar would produce 40 megawatts ends meet, her mother – who was the first woman Hills. “I see more stability in my life. Dylan, my son, of power, making it one of the largest initiatives trainee in IBEW Local 18’s Utility Pre-Craft Trainee has a lot more quality time with me. I have free Under RePower LA’s new Community Solar of its kind in the nation. This would generate program – recommended that Keisha sign up for the weekends. I have my nights to go over homework, proposal, low-income LADWP customers who enough energy to power 10,000 homes and waiting list to be considered for a trainee position. to put him to bed. That in itself is so precious. The rent would be able to reduce their bills and lock reduce pollution by 44,000 metric tons (equal tools I have already gotten from this one year [in in their electricity rates by investing in nearby to taking 9,200 cars off the road annually). The UPCT program has provided a tremendous the UPCT program] equal a lifetime of knowledge.” 9 10 Our Projects: Raise the Wage From the first Living wage to A NAtional Movement 2005 Requires purchasers of 2015/2016 LA City Grocery major supermarkets to LA Minimum Wage & Workers Retention retain existing workforce Enforcement Ordinances Ordinance for at least 90 days LAANE was proud to support the L.A. County With the highest poverty rate among U.S. Raised the city’s minimum wage to Federation of Labor’s leadership on the campaign metropolitan areas, Los Angeles was long overdue $15 by 2020 and created a Wage to give one million residents in our region a raise to for an increased minimum wage. The higher Enforcement Division to investigate $15 per hour. Since its beginning, a cornerstone of minimum wage will benefit the entire economy as 2001 wage theft violations in Los Angeles LAANE‘s work has been the fight for higher wages, L.A. workers currently living in poverty will be able 2005 Santa Monica from the groundbreaking 1997 L.A. living wage law to increase their spending. Santa Monica Living Right of Recall Ordinance to better wages in the hotel industry and other low- Wage Ordinance wage sectors to the city’s 2015 citywide $15 minimum LAANE is making sure the law is enforced by Protects workers from Requires city 20092014 wage ordinance. In the past year the County of Los developing an app that allows workers to report permanently losing jobs, ensures contractors in LALA CityCity HotelLiving Workers Wage Ordinance Minimum Angeles and the State have followed with their own abuses or wage theft, working with coalition that older workers aren’t replaced Santa Monica Wage Ordinance minimum wage hikes, once again proving that local partners in sponsoring resource fairs that help and safeguards living wage to pay a living organizing and policy are often more successful and workers know the law and their rights, and reaching and union activists from Awarded the highest living wage in wage to their effective than waiting for Washington to act. out to workers in key industries, like retail. layoffs the country ($15.37/hr) to workers employees at L.A.’s largest hotels

LAANE has been a longtime leader in establishing living wages and raising 1997 1999 2007 the minimum wage. The creation of 1995 LA City 1999 2009 LA City Contractor Century Boulevard the Raise the Wage campaign, which LA City Service Living Wage LA City Contractor LA City Living Responsibility Ordinance Living Wage led to passage of a new minimum Contractor Worker Ordinance Responsibility Ordinance Wage Ordinance wage in 2015, stemmed from efforts Retention Ordinance Ordinance Amendment that began in 1995. Such successes This law covered thousands Established a process in the Landmark law Updated the city’s living Helped preserve over 1,000 don’t happen overnight – strategic of workers on city land, selection of qualified, responsible establishing a wage ordinance, providing jobs for unionized food thinking, patience and persistence including many at LAX, such contractors (who provide living living wage for access to quality healthcare service workers are essential. This timeline highlights as janitors, airline service wages) for products and services 3,500 workers for thousands of private at LAX the many ways LAANE’s policies workers, retail clerks and from private sector contractors employed in sector LAX airline helped make the $15 citywide food service workers receiving taxpayer funds hotels near LAX workers minimum wage a reality.

11 12 WHEN LAANE WINS, THE COUNTRY WINS HOW LAANE’S SUCCESSES ARE SPREADING ACROSS THE NATION

In response to Washington This is gridlock, cities across the country have taken up the mantle of creating the positive change we our City want to see in our economy and democracy. LAANE is a founding member of the Partnership for For more than two decades, LAANE has played a crucial role in reinventing Los Angeles. The city that in Working Families, a nationwide the early 1990s was a national symbol of despair and poverty is now a place where working people and network of 17 organizations communities have a real voice in our democracy. Here are some of our signature achievements advocating for economic justice from Atlanta, Georgia to Seattle, Washington.

1 million 5,000 576 50,000 Through this network, LAANE has been able to inspire people receiving a people positively fewer premature lower energy bills for and be inspired by our partner organizations. LAANE raise from the new impacted by the deaths from pollution LADWP customers has been particularly instrumental in pioneering efforts L.A. minimum wage Century Boulevard Hotel in neighborhoods participating in to establish living wage laws, community benefits ordinance Living Wage ordinance surrounding the Port. RePower LA agreements and equitable construction careers policies “LAANE’s success is important not that have been successfully modeled across the country. only because it is improving the lives of people in Los Angeles, but because Now, LAANE’s Don’t Waste LA project and the it is helping to drive similar efforts in

$485M 90% 57,000 500,000 subsequent Zero Waste LA Ordinance are being modeled cities across America. From living in environmental reduction in truck- good local jobs apartment residents who and replicated in Long Beach and New York City, with wage laws to zero waste policies to improvements related pollution at the generated by the will receive recycling groundbreaking implications for our environment. community benefits agreements, to communities Port of Los Angeles, the Construction Careers services thanks to LAANE’s campaigns serve as a model surrounding LAX nation’s largest port project Don’t Waste LA LAANE also incubated the Jobs to Move America for positive change in all corners of the coalition, a national initiative aimed at directing taxpayer nation.” dollars for rapid transit toward increasing the quantity - Senator Elizabeth Warren and quality of American manufacturing jobs. Visit us online and learn more: www.laane.org 13 14 LAANE’s “[LAANE is] the leader of the groups around generous the country working for more equitable foundation LAANE Board of Directors supporters: economic development.” -Shawn Escoffery, Surdna Foundation

ANNENBERG FOUNDATION Chair Maria Elena Durazo Manny Valenzuela CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY Vice President for Immigration, Civil Rights & Diversity Western Region Organizing Director FOUNDATION UNITE HERE International Brotherhood of Teamsters THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT Your support reshapes L.A. Secretary Kent Wong Manuel Pastor CALIFORNIA WELLNESS LAANE relies on foundation grants, supportive allies and generous donors like Director Director FOUNDATION you. Your donations allow us to successfully address many of the problems at UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity MARGUERITE CASEY FOUNDATION the core of urban poverty and to continue finding solutions to the challenges of ______DEUTSCH FOUNDATION economic and environmental injustice in Los Angeles and beyond. Marvin Kropke FORD FOUNDATION Angelica Salas Business Manager HIDDEN LEAF Executive Director IBEW Local 11 FOUNDATION 2015-16 Financial Highlights Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles KELLOGG FOUNDATION (CHIRLA) Peter Dreier KRESGE FOUNDATION Director LIBERTY HILL Cindy Ensworth Urban & Environmental Policy Program, FOUNDATION Retired Regional Organizer Occidental College MARISLA FOUNDATION California Teachers Association NATHAN CUMMINGS FOUNDATION Danny Tabor Executive Secretary-Treasurer PUBLIC WELFARE Former City Councilmember & Mayor of Inglewood Los Angeles County Federation of Labor FOUNDATION ROSENBERG FOUNDATION David Pettit Sabrina Smith ROTH FAMILY Senior Attorney Deputy Director FOUNDATION Natural Resources Defense Council California Calls SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON Eddie Iny Sonya Clark Support & Revenue Expenses SOLIDAGO FOUNDATION Program Director Community Health Education Advocate SURDNA FOUNDATION Contracts, Grants, Management & General Expenses 7% Organization United for Respect (OUR) The Children’s Clinic in Long Beach UNITED WAY & Corporate Giving 76% Reserve 3% VEATCH Private Fundraising 24% Program Services 78% John Grant Tom Walsh WEINGART FOUNDATION Total $ 5,251,864 Fundraising 12% Secretary-Treasurer President Total: $5,251,864 UFCW Local 770 UNITE HERE Local 11

15 16 LAANE Advisory Board In it to win it Stella T. Maloyan, Development Director

Co-Chair Julie Gutman Dickinson Clifford P. Goldstein Anne Richardson Over the past several decades, private fundraising has become Union Labor Lawyer/Partner Managing Principal Director integral to building and sustaining healthy nonprofit organizations. Bush Gottlieb GPI Companies Consumer Law Project, Not only does it generate necessary funding, but it creates a base Public Counsel of friends and supporters while providing unrestricted income. Over Co-Chair Scott Pascucci Lynn Greenberg, LCSW the past 15 years, LAANE has built an unrivaled private fundraising CEO Activist/Psychotherapist Vivian Rothstein Concord Bicycle Music Activist/Consultant structure, complementing its foundation grants and coalition ______Frank Gruber partners’ support. The cornerstone of our private fundraising, the Entertainment Lawyer/Activist/ Jyoti Sarda City of Justice Awards Dinner, is today the premier progressive David E. Altschul Author Producer & Founder dinner in Southern California with nearly 1,000 attendees from the Partner Nimble Media entertainment industry, philanthropy, business, politics and local Altschul & Olin, LLP Robinne Lee grassroots communities. LAANE’s other marquee fundraiser, the Actor Hope J. Singer Women for a New Los Angeles Luncheon, is a powerful gathering Diane Asselin Baer Union Labor Lawyer Mediator Suzy Marks Bush Gottlieb of women from all sectors, boasting an attendance of over 700. Philanthropist/Community Activist LAANE’s InterAct program attracts young professionals – particularly in the entertainment industry – who are Antoinette Bill Gary Stewart among the more than 200 who annually attend our Small Talk Big Change event. Social Worker Beth Meltzer, LCSW, PhD Music Executive Philanthropist We raise over $1.3 million each year in private money, and we succeed because we approach fundraising in the Nancy Cotton Sarah Timberman same strategic way we approach our campaigns. We are very proud of creating the fundraising-focused Advisory President David Nahai Producer Board, a group of influential connectors and donors who are skilled in communicating our vision. Additionally, Heyday Television USA President LAANE’s leadership and management team actively fundraise and strategize with the development team. David Nahai Consulting Services Laurie Traktman Lisa Cowell Shams Partner and Shareholder To do effective work and create comprehensive change, nonprofits have to implement a fundraising Executive VP, Government Affairs Cathy O’Neill Gilbert & Sackman model that has longevity and a diverse pool of donors. LAANE invests in its leaders and teaches staff Westfield Corporation Environmentalist/Philanthropist the importance of fundraising and strategic thinking. We are so grateful to our generous donors for their Robert Vinson continuous support, and for our part we promise that LAANE is in it to win it and will continue to make great Jeff Farmer Kurt P. Petersen Executive Director Director of Organizing Organizing Director VINSON Building Community things happen in the quest for economic and environmental justice in Los Angeles and beyond. International Brotherhood of UNITE HERE Local 11 Moving Onward, Teamsters Andrea Weiss, PhD Psychoanalyst

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I’ve seen“ the work LAANE “holds large LAANE has“ been nothing of LAANE give voice to corporations responsible less than brilliant in finding the unheard people in this and has become a national new ways for workers to city.” model of improving the organize and build real - Amy Elaine Wakeland lives of working people power for our communities.” First Lady of and their families.” - Maria Elena Durazo Los Angeles - Barbara Ehrenreich General Vice President, Author, Nickled and Dimed UNITE HERE

No organization“ has LAANE has“ helped bring LAANE has“ reinvented a better record of a sense of urgency for the proud tradition of persuading elected social justice in a town progressive movement officials to enact ... the where people are falling building to correct the kind of progressive economic inequalities of legislation that no one has behind.” the 21st century.” enacted before.” - Eric Garcetti Mayor of Los Angeles - Harold Meyerson - Dolores Huerta The American Prospect Co-Founder,

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