City and county fair workweek, minimum wage, and paid sick leave laws, 2003–2019, and participation by alt-labor groups
| Fair workweek | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| City/county | Year | Alt-labor group cited as leader in campaign? | Group name (ad hoc coalition name) |
| Santa Clara County, CA | 2014 | ✓ | EBASE, IWJ |
| San Francisco, CA | 2015 | ✓ | CPA |
| New York, NY | 2017 | ✓ | MRNY, CPD |
| Philadelphia, PA | 2017 | ✓ | UFR, CPD (Fair Workweek Initiative) |
| San Jose, CA | 2017 | ✓ | EBASE |
| Seattle, WA | 2017 | ✓ | CPD (Fair Workweek Initiative) |
| Emeryville, CA | 2018 | ✓ | EBASE, CPD |
| Chicago, IL | 2019 | ✓ | Arise, CPD, CWC, RTF, ROC, WWJ (Fair Workweek Chicago) |
| Paid sick leave | |||
| City/county | Year | Alt-labor group cited as leader in campaign? | Group name (ad hoc coalition name) |
| San Francisco, CA | 2006 | ✓ | CPA |
| Washington, DC | 2008 | ✓ | ROC (Paid Sick Days for All Coalition) |
| Seattle, WA | 2011 | ✓ | Casa Latina (Seattle Coalition for a Healthy Workforce) |
| New York, NY | 2013 | ✓ | DWU, MRNY, CPD, ROC (New York Paid Sick Days Coalition) |
| Washington, DC | 2013 | ✓ | ROC (Paid Sick Days for All Coalition) |
| New York, NY | 2014 | ✓ | DWU, MRNY, CPD, ROC (New York Paid Sick Days Coalition) |
| Oakland, CA | 2014 | ✓ | EBASE, ROC (Lift Up Oakland) |
| Montgomery County, MD | 2015 | ✓ | CASA de Maryland, IWJ (Working Matters Coalition) |
| Philadelphia, PA | 2015 | ✓ | ROC, TWA-PA (PA Coalition for Healthy Families and Workplaces) |
| Pittsburgh, PA | 2015 | ✓ | Hill District Consensus Group (Pittsburgh United) |
| Tacoma, WA | 2015 | ✓ | El Comite (Healthy Tacoma) |
| Berkeley, CA | 2016 | ✓ | EBASE (Berkeley Minimum Wage Initiative Coalition) |
| Chicago, IL | 2016 | ✓ | Arise, UFR, ROC, NDWA (Paid Sick Time Chicago Coalition) |
| Cook County, IL | 2016 | ✓ | Arise, UFR, ROC, NDWA (Paid Sick Time Chicago Coalition) |
| Los Angeles, CA | 2016 | ✓ | Black Worker Center, CARECEN, KIWA, ROC (Raise the Wage LA) |
| Minneapolis, MN | 2016 | ✓ | CTUL |
| San Diego, CA | 2016 | ✓ | IWJ, Employee Rights Center (Raise Up San Diego) |
| Santa Monica, CA | 2016 | ||
| St. Paul, MN | 2016 | ✓ | CTUL |
| Austin, TX | 2018 | ✓ | WDP (Working Texans for Paid Sick Time, Work Strong Austin) |
| Duluth, MN | 2018 | ||
| San Antonio, TX | 2018 | ✓ | WDP (Working Texans for Paid Sick Time) |
| Westchester, NY | 2018 | ✓ | MRNY (WCLC) |
| Dallas, TX | 2019 | ✓ | WDP (Working Texans for Paid Sick Time) |
| Emeryville, CA | 2019 | ✓ | EBASE |
| Minimum wage | |||
| City/county | Year | Alt-labor group cited as leader in campaign? | Group name (ad hoc coalition name) |
| San Francisco, CA | 2003 | ✓ | CPA, LRCL, POWER |
| Santa Fe, NM | 2003 | ✓ | Somos |
| Santa Fe, NM | 2007 | ✓ | Somos |
| San Jose, CA | 2012 | ||
| Albuquerque, NM | 2012 | ✓ | El Centro, Ole, ROC |
| Montgomery County, MD | 2013 | ✓ | CASA |
| Prince George’s County, MD | 2013 | ✓ | CASA |
| Bernalillo County, NM | 2013 | ✓ | El Centro |
| Seatac, WA | 2013 | ||
| Oakland, CA | 2014 | ✓ | EBASE, ROC (Lift Up Oakland) |
| San Francisco, CA | 2014 | ||
| Chicago, IL | 2014 | ✓ | ROC, Arise (Raise Chicago Coalition) |
| Louisville, KY | 2014 | ||
| Las Cruces, NM | 2014 | ||
| Sante Fe County, NM | 2014 | ✓ | Somos (Santa Fe Living Wage Network) |
| Seattle, WA | 2014 | ✓ | Casa Latina (15 Now) |
| Birmingham, AL | 2015 | ||
| El Cerrito, CA | 2015 | ||
| Emeryville, CA | 2015 | ✓ | EBASE |
| Los Angeles, CA | 2015 | ✓ | BWC, CARECEN, KIWA,ROC (Raise the Wage LA) |
| Los Angeles County, CA | 2015 | ||
| Mountain View, CA | 2015 | ✓ | EBASE, LUNA, WPU (Santa Clara countywide campaign) |
| Palo Alto, CA | 2015 | ✓ | EBASE, LUNA, WPU (Santa Clara countywide campaign) |
| Johnson County, IA | 2015 | ✓ | CWJEI |
| Lexington, KY | 2015 | ||
| Portland, ME | 2015 | ||
| Kansas City, MO | 2015 | ||
| St. Louis, MO | 2015 | ||
| Tacoma, WA | 2015 | ||
| Flagstaff, AZ | 2016 | ✓ | LUCHA (Flagstaff Needs a Raise) |
| Berkeley, CA | 2016 | ||
| Cupertino, CA | 2016 | ✓ | EBASE, LUNA, WPU (Santa Clara countywide campaign) |
| Los Altos, CA | 2016 | ✓ | EBASE, LUNA, WPU (Santa Clara countywide campaign) |
| Malibu, CA | 2016 | ||
| Pasadena, CA | 2016 | ✓ | NDLON |
| San Diego, CA | 2016 | ✓ | IWJ (Raise Up San Diego) |
| San Jose, CA | 2016 | ✓ | EBASE, LUNA, WPU (Santa Clara countywide campaign) |
| San Leandro, CA | 2016 | ✓ | EBASE |
| San Mateo, CA | 2016 | ||
| Santa Monica, CA | 2016 | ✓ | SMART |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 2016 | ✓ | EBASE, LUNA, WPU (Santa Clara countywide campaign) |
| Washington, DC | 2016 | ✓ | ROC |
| Linn County, IA | 2016 | ||
| Polk County, IA | 2016 | ✓ | CCI |
| Wapello County, IA | 2016 | ||
| Cook County, IL | 2016 | ✓ | Arise |
| Belmont, CA | 2017 | ||
| Milpita, CA | 2017 | ✓ | EBASE, LUNA, WPU (Santa Clara countywide campaign) |
| Richmond, CA | 2017 | ||
| Santa Clara, CA | 2017 | ✓ | EBASE, LUNA, WPU (Santa Clara countywide campaign) |
| Montgomery County, MD | 2017 | ||
| Minneapolis, MN | 2017 | ✓ | CTUL |
| Redwood City, CA | 2018 | ||
| St. Paul, MN | 2018 | ✓ | CTUL |
| Fremont, CA | 2019 | ||
| Menlo Park, CA | 2019 | ✓ | EBASE |
| Novato, CA | 2019 | ✓ | Comite Vida (North Bay Jobs with Justice) |
| Petaluma, CA | 2019 | ✓ | Comite Vida (North Bay Jobs with Justice) |
| South San Francisco, CA | 2019 | ✓ | EBASE |
| Denver, CO | 2019 | ✓ | COPA, UNE (Work Here Thrive Here) |
Abbreviations/acronyms: Arise = Arise Chicago; BWC = Black Worker Center; CARECEN = Central American Resource Center; CASA = Casa de Maryland; CCI = Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement; COPA = Colorado's People's Alliance; CPA = Chinese Progressive Association (San Fran); CPD = Center for Popular Democracy; CTUL = Centro de Trabajadores Unidos in la Lucha; CWC = Chicago Workers Collaborative; CWJEI = Center for Workers Justice of Eastern Iowa; DWU = Domestic Workers United; EBASE = East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy; El Centro = El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos; IWJ = Interfaith Worker Justice; KIWA = Koreatown Immigrant Worker Alliance; LRCL = La Raze Centro Legal; LUNA = Latinos United for a New America; MRNY = Make the Road New York; NDLON = National Day Labor Organizing Network; NDWA = National Domestic Workers Alliance; POWER = People Organized to Win Employment Rights; ROC = Restaurant Opportunities Center; RTF = Raise the Floor Alliance; SMART = Santa Monica Allied for Responsible Tourism; Somos = Somos Un Pueblo Unido; TWA-PA = Taxi Workers Alliance for Pennsylvania; UFR = United for Respect/OUR Walmart; UNE = United for a New Economy; WCLC = Westchester Community/Labor Coalition for Earned Sick Time; WDP = Workers Defense Project; WPU = Working Partnerships USA; WWJ = Warehouse Workers for Justice
Sources: These data were collected via systematic search of thousands of full-text local newspaper articles using Newsbank and Google News. Search terms included the jurisdiction in question and broad search terms (e.g., “minimum wage”), and encompassed the year prior to policy enactment as well as the year after enactment. The list of Fair Workweek laws was compiled from HRDive and the Center for Popular Democracy’s Fair Workweek Initiative. The list of minimum wage laws was drawn from the Economic Policy Institute’s Minimum Wage Tracker, with omissions added by the author (San Francisco 2003, San Jose 2012, Montgomery County 2013, and Santa Fe 2007). The list of paid sick leave laws was compiled from the National Partnership for Women and Families’ “Current Paid Sick Days Laws” fact sheet, SHRM’s April 15, 2019 article “Paid-Sick-Leave Laws Continue to Give Employers Headaches,” and A Better Balance’s resource page on “Paid Sick Time.”
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