In February, 32 LA Black Worker Center members and community allies will be traveling to Sacramento to voice their support for the reintroduction of Senate Bill 491. This year, they will be making a total of six trips by bus
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Thanks to you, SB 491: The California Employment Anti- Discrimination Act of 2017, passed the full Assembly Floor unanimously last Thursday. It will soon head to the Governor’s desk to sign into law. The work is not done and the
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Los Angeles—To close Women’s History Month, the Los Angeles Black Worker Center released a pilot project report, “Black Space for Women: From LA Practice to National Model for Sister Empowerment,” that reveals what Black women experience as barriers to leadership
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More attention is being paid to reducing the number of people incarcerated in public and private prisons. But this is only part of the solution: jobs are needed…and not just any jobs…the formerly incarcerated need good jobs. The Bay Area
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In 2012, the LABWC successfully ensured that the Los Angeles County MTA’s five-year master Project Labor Agreement included specific diversity language that would establish: 1) broader criteria for the definition of disadvantaged workers, such as those emancipated from foster care;
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