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After a multi-year campaign by SMART, the Santa Monica City Council passes a living wage ordinance covering workers employed by businesses that contract with the city. |
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LAANE releases a major study on the impacts of the Los Angeles living wage ordinance. The most definitive report to date on living wage policies shows that poor workers have benefited with little harm to businesses. |
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With the help of LAANE, 2,500 hotel workers win improved wages, benefits and working conditions after a year-long campaign and boycott. |
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LAANE helps secure City Council passage of a grocery workers retention law to help safeguard the jobs of supermarket workers and prevent mass firings during ownership changes.
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| 2004 |
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LAANE leads campaign to stop a Wal-Mart ballot measure that would have allowed the company to build a superstore in Inglewood with no public review or environmental impact report. |
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LAANE helps win passage of the country’s first law requiring superstores to complete an economic impact analysis before seeking approval for their projects. |
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LAANE and a coalition of labor, education and environmental groups negotiate a $500 million community benefits agreement—the country’s largest—to dramatically improve conditions for residents affected by the expansion of LAX.
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| 2003 |
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LAANE and SMART hold a public hearing before a blue-ribbon commission on electoral deception by opponents of Santa Monica’s living wage law. The hearing leads to a report calling for electoral reforms and City Council consideration of reform legislation. |
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LAANE helps negotiate a Community Benefits Agreement for the Marlton Square redevelopment project, a mixed-use retail and housing project, guaranteeing living wage jobs, affordable housing and local hiring.
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LAANE releases report card on working conditions at LAX restaurants, leading to immediate pay increases by two employers.
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| 2002 |
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LAANE leads a successful effort to pass statewide health care reform legislation. The law allows businesses covered by living wage laws to enter into purchasing pools, potentially extending health coverage of thousands of low-wage workers. |
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LAANE leads a successful campaign to extend living wage, worker retention and responsible contractor ordinances to McDonald's employees at LAX. The effort leads to higher wages and greater worker protections at the fast-food giant. |
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LAANE organizes residents of the Adams/La Brea area to oppose a major redevelopment project that threatens to displace dozens of families and drive out good jobs. As a result of the sustained community pressure, the developer withdraws the project.
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| 2001 |
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After a multi-year campaign by SMART, the Santa Monica City Council passes a groundbreaking living wage ordinance covering 2,000 workers in the lucrative tourism industry. It is the first living wage ordinance in the country covering businesses that do not receive direct financial benefits from local government, but which benefit from indirect public subsidies. |
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LAANE helps win a series of wage and benefit increases for hundreds of LAX workers.
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LAANE helps negotiate a landmark Community Benefits Agreement for the Staples Center expansion project. The benefits package—which includes provisions for living wage jobs, affordable housing, local hiring and green space—is the first agreement of its kind in the country, establishing a new model for development that responds to the needs of workers and communities. |
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Responding to mass layoffs of tourism workers following the September 11 terrorist attacks, LAANE partners with HERE to mount an extensive worker relief effort. The operation provides thousands of workers with food and access to government services, and paves the way for additional relief programs. |
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Working with SMART and HERE, LAANE helps pass the nation's first recall-rights law in Santa Monica, giving laid-off workers the right to return to their jobs as employers rehire. |
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LAANE and the Valley Jobs Coalition project negotiates a Community Benefits Agreement with the developer of a $200 million mixed-use development in North Hollywood, guaranteeing living wage jobs, an affordable child care center, job training and local hiring. |
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Working with City Council President Alex Padilla, LAANE and the Valley Jobs Coalition reaches agreement on a Community Benefits Agreement for an industrial development project in Sun Valley. The package includes provisions for living wage jobs, local hiring, a youth center and a community fund.
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| 2000 |
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LAANE and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor lead the successful effort to pass one of the nation's first responsible contractor ordinances, ensuring compliance with labor laws by city contractors, lessees and financial assistance recipients. |
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LAANE issues a comprehensive study on working poverty in Los Angeles, influencing public debate on the eve of mayoral and city council elections. |
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LAANE and its Santa Monica project, SMART, defeat Measure KK, a $1 million effort by luxury hotels to pass the nation's first anti-living wage ballot initiative.
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| 1999 |
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LAANE releases landmark studies on the Community Redevelopment Agency and the Mayor's Business Team, leading to important changes in city policy regarding public subsidies and job creation. |
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LAANE and the Service Employees International Union lead a successful campaign to win passage of Los Angeles County's living wage law.
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| 1998 |
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LAANE helps win a precedent-setting agreement on the Hollywood and Highland development. Key provisions include living wages for all employees of the builder and its contractors, a living wage incentive program for tenants and seed money for a worker health care trust fund.
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| 1997 |
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LAANE leads a successful campaign to pass Los Angeles' groundbreaking living wage ordinance, which has provided raises and health benefits to more than 10,000 workers. The law quickly becomes a national model.
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| 1996 |
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LAANE helps to found Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), an organization of religious leaders and congregations throughout Los Angeles County that has since become one of the nation’s most effective faith-based worker justice groups.
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| 1995 |
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LAANE successfully advocates for the nation's first Service Contract Workers Retention Ordinance, increasing job security for thousands of workers employed by city contractors. |
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