Raising Wages
a. Campaign to Raise the State Minimum Wage
The Living Wage Act, an unsuccessful proposition on the November 2024 ballot to increase the California minimum wage to $18 an hour by 2025, would have built on existing minimum wage policies and would have raised pay for around five million California workers according to two new companion reports released by the UC Berkeley Labor Center and the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics (CWED). (Read more)
b. Campaign for Wage Increases for City-funded Nonprofit Workers, IHSS Home Care Workers and CalWORKs Parents in Community Service Jobs
In the City and County of San Francisco Memorandum of Understanding with SEIU Local 2015, the wages for IHSS home care workers were negotiated to increase to $21.50 per hour on July 1 and $22 per hour on January 1, 2025. In an agreement reached with the Mayor and SEIU Local 1021 in 2023, the minimum rate under the Minimum Compensation Ordinance was negotiated to increase to $20.25 per hour on July 1, 2024. This was part of a campaign initiated by the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition in meetings with SEIU Local 2015 and 1021. The goal is to set a path to $25 per hour. (Read more