Scott to Participate in Working Families Agenda Roundtable in Los Angeles
Will tour worker center, be joined by U.S. Rep. Judy Chu, State Sen. Connie Leyva
LOS ANGELES – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, will participate in a Working Families Agenda roundtable discussion at the Los Angeles Black Worker Center tomorrow with workers, local elected officials, labor leaders, policy experts and family advocates to examine how recent policy changes in California can be a model for the rest of the country. Rep. Scott, who will be joined by Rep. Judy Chu and State Sen. Connie Leyva, is leading the House Democratic Caucus behind an agenda that includes policy solutions to raise the federal minimum wage, ensure that every family has access to high-quality early learning and childcare options, flexible and predictable work schedules, paid leave, a meaningful right to bargain collectively, and more. The discussion will be moderated by Lola Smallwood Cuevas of the LA Black Worker Center and Jess Bartholow of the Western Center on Law and Poverty.
WHO:
Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), House Committee on Education and the Workforce
Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-27), Chair, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
Senator Connie Leyva, (D-20), California Senate
Lola Smallwood Cuevas, Los Angeles Black Worker Center
Jess Bartholow, Western Center on Law and Poverty
Kathy Finn, Director of Collective Bargaining, UFCW 770
Tonia McMillian, Co-Chair of Raising CA Together, Childcare Provider of Childcare FightFor15
Rusty Hicks, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
Rosemarie Molina, Strategic Director, Clean Carwash Campaign
Yadira Hernandez, Researcher, UCLA Labor Center and Young Workers Project
Donna Benton, California Work and Family Coalition
Aquilina Soriano, Pilipino Workers Center of LA and Domestic Workers
Liz Ben-Ishai, Center for Law and Social Policy
Alice Goff, President, AFSCME 3090
Manuel Villanueva, Organizer, Restaurant Opportunity Center (ROC)
Aiha Nguyen, Director, Grocery and Retail Project, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Betty Hung, Policy Director, Asians Advancing Justice
Loretta Stevens, Executive Co-Director, Los Angeles Black Worker Center
Trina Traylor, LA BWC Member and Worker Justice Organizing Committee leader
Jante Pruitt, Senior Organizer, SCOPE/AGENDA
Pamela Hill, UFCW Member, Albertson’s employee
Liz Randall, SEIU Member, Panda Express employee
WHAT:
Open-press roundtable discussion with workers, elected officials, labor leaders, policy experts, and family advocates.
WHEN:
TOMORROW, February 5, 2016 – 11 a.m. PST
WHERE:
Los Angeles Black Worker Center
5350 Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90043
BACKGROUND:
The Working Families Agenda is a set of responsible policies that have been introduced in Congress that would strengthen working families and enable them to succeed. The House Democratic Caucus is united behind the Working Families Agenda to:
- Boost wages by raising the minimum wage, making it possible for workers to bargain for a fair deal at work without being retaliated against, and keeping employers from cheating working people out of their pay by misclassifying them as independent contractors rather than employees;
- Help workers create a better balance between work and family life so that people never have to choose between their income and their health or their children; and
- Level the playing field by strengthening protections from discrimination so that all workers have a fair shot at success.
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