Working Partnerships is a public policy institute that builds partnerships with community, labor and faith groups to improve the lives of working families in Silicon Valley. 

 

RECENT WINS FOR LOCAL WORKING FAMILIES

Healthy Workers medical  plan rolls out March 1

Attention small businesses and small business employees. The same coalition that created the nation’s first health insurance program for all children – Working Partnerships USA, the Santa Clara Family Health Plan and Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System – has now developed Healthy Workers, an affordable employer-based health plan for you.  

Healthy Workers offers comprehensive coverage with low premiums and no deductibles at roughly half the cost of competitive plans. The Health Plan will begin enrolling employers and employees in Healthy Workers on March 1, 2010.

For more information, call Ann Gray at the Santa Clara Family Health Plan at (408) 410-0811 or email at agray@scfhp.com. Healthy Workers was developed with the support of the Nathan Cummings Foundation The California Endowment, California Wellness Foundation, Blue Shield of California Foundation, Friedman Family Foundation, David and Lucille Packard Foundation, and Blue Shield of California.

Healthy Workers received state legislative approval through a bill authored by Assemblymember Jim Beall.  The program was approved unanimously by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.

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UPCOMING EVENT

Author experiences jobs most Americans won’t do

Journalist Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants from Arizona lettuce fields and an Alabama poultry plant to the kitchens of New York City restaurants, forced to live with chronic pain for $8 an hour.

His co-workers initially thought he was crazy or as an undercover immigration agent. He was really working on his just-published book, "Working in the Shadows: A year of doing jobs (most) Americans won't do."

Come hear him speak about the book at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, at First Christian Church, 80 S. Fifth St., in San Jose. The event is sponsored by Working Partnerships USA, First Christian Church, the Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform and San Jose Peace and Justice Center. For more information, call (408) 836-5756 or email hietala.s@gmail.com.