Fight Now, Celebrate Later
Dear John xxxxxx,
To practice social distancing and keep people safe, LAANE is canceling the Women for a New Los Angeles Luncheon. However, LAANE is proactively working with community and labor allies, under the leadership of the LA County Federation of Labor, to protect Angelenos during this time of great economic uncertainty by developing rapid response measures for City Council to approve. This includes fighting for emergency legislation that will provide:
- Worker and community health and safety, including requiring all employers to offer 14 days of paid sick leave, with anti-retaliation protections for workers who are taking paid leave or are quarantined. No workers should be fired for taking leave or as a result of being quarantined.
- Immediate protections for workers, including right of recall, ensuring employers do not use the crisis to unfairly fire workers, and securing worker retention in case companies are sold.
- Access to services and assistance for everyone, because all workers and their families, regardless of immigration status, should be able to receive testing, treatment and all public resources available to combat this crisis. This means ensuring that hospitals, schools, health care providers, public safety facilities, and other sensitive locations are safe spaces for immigrants and are not subject to ICE or Border Patrol raids.
- Housing protections, following on state emergency measures, to ensure a moratorium on rental evictions for residents and small businesses, as well as a moratorium on all foreclosures.
- Unemployment Insurance protections, including UI for all workers regardless of classification and UI that covers at least 80% of salary.
What we all do in the next two weeks will determine the outcome of the pandemic. But it can also determine how we can rebuild a stronger economy that works for everyone. To add your voice and endorse this legislation, we encourage you to visit healthyla.org and call your City Councilmember today.
Support our work to protect the most vulnerable Angelenos now:
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If we work together, we can ensure there is a brighter and better future on the other side of this crisis. And then, we can do lunch.
In solidarity,
Roxana Tynan
Executive Director
LAANE
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