LINKS AND RESOURCES
National
Acorn Living Wage Resource
Center
http://www.livingwagecampaign.org/
Interfaith Worker Justice
http://www.nicwj.org/
Responsible Wealth
http://www.responsiblewealth.org/
United For A Fair Economy
http://www.ufenet.org/
Economic Policy Institute
http://www.epinet.org/
Brennan Center for Justice
at New York University
http://www.brennancenter.org
Political Economy Research
Institute University of Massachusetts
http://www.umass.edu/peri/
Responsible Wealth
http://www.responsiblewealth.org/
North Bay Labor Council:
http://northbayclc.home.mindspring.com
United For A Fair Economy
http://www.ufenet.org/
Economic Policy Institute
- http://www.epinet.org/subjectpages/labor.html
"Living Wage Issue Guide and Briefing Paper"
AFL-CIO - http://www.aflcio.org/articles/minimum_wage/living.pdf
"Living Wage Laws: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions"
NOW AVAILABLE:
LIVING WAGE CAMPAIGNS: AN ACTIVIST GUIDE TO BUILDING A MOVEMENT
The 2003 updated
version of the comprehensive 225-page guide for organizing
living wage campaigns: Living Wage Campaigns: An Activist's Guide
to
Building the Movement for Economic Justice (by David Reynolds of
Wayne
State University Labor Studies Center with the ACORN Living Wage
Resource
Center). This nitty gritty guide includes profiles of successful
campaigns,
chapters on how to build a coalition, conduct research, respond
to the
opposition, draft an ordinance, plan a larger electoral strategy,
a review
of the available research on the impact of living wage laws, an
appendix of
helpful living wage resources and much more.
To order the
guide, send a check or money order for $15 (payable to ACORN)
to Denise Johnson at ACORN: 739 8th St. SE; Washington, DC 20003.
Substantial portions of this guide are available online in PDF
format at
http://www.laborstudies.wayne.edu.
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California
California Partnerships
for Working Families
http://www.californiapartnership.org/
East Bay Alliance for
A Sustainable Economy (Alameda)
http://www.workingeastbay.org
Working Partnerships,
U.S.A. (Santa Clara)
http://www.wpusa.org/
Center for Policy
Initiatives (San Diego)
http://www.onlinecpi.org/
Los
Angeles Alliance for A New Economy
http://www.laane.org
UC Berkeley Center for
Labor Research and Education and the UC Institute
for Labor and Employment
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~iir/clre/
UC Institute for Labor
and Employment
http://www.ucop.edu/ile
PUEBLO (People United
for Economic Justice/Building Leadership through
Organizing Santa Barbara)
http://www.sbpueblo.org
Central Coast Alliance
United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE and Ventura
County Living Wage Campaign)
http://www.coastalalliance.com
Working Alliance
for A Just Economy (Santa Cruz/Monterey Living Wage Coalition)
http://www.waje.org/
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Sonoma County and North Bay
Family Action
of Sonoma County
http://www.fasc.org
Sonoma Valley Voice
http://sonomavalleyvoice.com
North Bay Labor Council
http://northbayclc.home.mindspring.com
SEIU Local 707
http://www.seiulocal707.org
Sonoma County League
of Women Voters
http://sonco.ca.lwvnet.orght
Leadership Institute
for the Economy and Ecology
http://www.ecoleader.org
Sonoma County Housing
Advocacy Group
http://www.hagster.org/
Sonoma County Conservation
Action
http://www.conservationaction.org
Petaluma Tomorrow
http://www.petaluma-tomorrow.org/
SMART (Sonoma Marin Area
Rail Transit)
http://www.sonomamarintrain.org/
Coalition for A Better
Sonoma County
http://www.bettersonoma.com/
Sonoma County Housing
Coalition
http://www.schousingcoalition.org/
Sonoma County Peace and
Justice Center
http://www.peaceandjusticesonomaco.org
Greenbelt Alliance
Sonoma-Marin
http://www.greenbelt.org/regions/sonomamarin
LIVING WAGE COALITION OF SONOMA COUNTY