This document outlines strategies that can help California generate the greatest quantity of good jobs from Prop 39 funding and other clean energy programs, and improve job opportunities for low-income Californians.

Thank you for the opportunity to present comments on the Comprehensive Energy Efficiency Program for Existing Buildings (AB 758) Scoping Report. The following comments expand on my verbal comments presented on October 9, 2012 as a panelist for the AB 758 Scoping Report Workshop.

We offer these comments for the Commission and the IOUs to develop more comprehensive strategies to improve energy savings in ESA programs, support targeted efforts on multi-family housing, and capture the co-benefits of supporting good jobs for low-income people.

The research roadmap makes significant progress in beginning to address the workforce issues that were highlighted in the Needs Assessment and that are essential for consideration of alternative approaches to workforce issues, including but not limited to training strategies. However, we urge the Energy Division and the IOUs to develop a comprehensive research agenda on jobs and workforce issues.

Berkeley Blog post. When Californians passed Proposition 39 last year, they voted for more carbon reduction, school improvements and jobs – all through a five-year, $2.5 billion program using revenues from newly closed tax loopholes to pay for investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy. Now state policymakers are making critical decisions as they craft the guidelines for this massive new investment.

California’s ambitious path towards a carbon-neutral economy is complex, involves and affects different industries and occupations in multiple ways, and holds both promise and challenges for the state’s working families. The analysis and recommendations here present actions that show a high road to climate policy is both valuable and feasible.

Esta publicación recoge los temas más importantes de la reunión en el mes de febrero de 1990 de más de cincuenta académicos, defensores de los trabajadores del campo, organizadores de sindicatos, y líderes de asociaciones populares de migrantes mixtecos. Ellos participaron en una reunión de trabajo para discutir la situación de los trabajadores agrícolas mixtecos en California, y conocer los esfuerzos que los líderes mixtecos están haciendo para mejorar sus condiciones de vida y trabajo. La reunión fue organizada por Carol Zabin, directora de un equipo de investigación que examina la incorporación de los mixtecos al mercado de trabajo agrícola de California. Su objetivo era intercambiar conocimiento y perspectivas entre académicos y líderes populares sobre aspectos de interés común y posibles vías de colaboración conjunta.

While the UC Berkeley Don Vial Center for Employment in the Green Economy is pleased to see that the CEC draft language shows recognition of the importance of certification as a means of testing the skills, knowledge and ability (KSAs) to show competency for a particular job like acceptance testing, the approach to choosing which certifications ensure competency is inadequate.

Jobs v. environment is a false choice. And with the pandemic-induced economic downturn and the fires hurting Californians around the state, it’s clearer than ever that we must make meaningful progress on both fronts simultaneously, crafting an economic recovery that advances equity, climate resilience, and job quality.

At Local 2’s request, the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education has analyzed the current wages and earnings of union hotel workers and assessed the degree to which they are sufficient to provide for the basic needs of members’ families in San Francisco.