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Building Resilient Futures: New Pathways for Inclusive Economic Development

A Closer Look at the 'Invisible' Subcontracting Trend in Silicon Valley
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How the City of San Jose Can Afford to Increase Salaries Without Cutting Services

Diving into the overlooked factors that show how San Jose's effective budget is larger than expected.
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Tech’s Invisible Workforce

A Closer Look at the 'Invisible' Subcontracting Trend in Silicon Valley
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Investing In Our Future

The Transportation Priorities of Silicon Valley’s Diverse Communities
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Economic Prosperity Strategy

Improving economic opportunity for the Bay Area’s low- and moderate-wage workers
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Temporary Work, Permanent Injuries

Realities in the Food Processing Industry and a Call to Action
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Tech’s Diversity Problem

More Than Meets the Eye
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Access to Paid Sick Days in San Jose

A briefing paper from the Institute for Women's Policy Research
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Power is at the Root

How Funders and Workforce Leaders Can Center Workers in the “Future of Work”
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Delivering Insecurity

E-commerce and the Future of Work in Food Retail
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Serving Silicon Valley

Tech Giants and their Service Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Change and Uncertainty, Not Apocalypse

Technological Change and Store-Based Retail
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The Eviction Time-Bomb

How COVID-19 & corporate greed could devastate Latinx and Black renters and kick 40,000 families out of their homes
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Technological Change in Health Care Delivery

Drivers and Consequences of Technological Change in Health Care Delivery
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Understanding & Responding to the Changing Nature of Work in the Bay Area

A joint report with ReWork the Bay and Jobs with Justice San Francisco.
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The Future of Warehouse Work

Technological Change in the U.S. Logistics Industry
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The Google Rent Hike

What Google’s San Jose mega-campus could cost renting families — and what Google can do about it
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Innovating Inequality?

How tech’s business models concentrate wealth while shortchanging workers
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Driverless?

Autonomous Trucks and the Future of the American Trucker
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When Renters Rise, Our City Thrives

Factsheet on renting families and our housing crisis
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Construction in San Jose: Crisis & Opportunity

Growing Our Local Middle-Class Construction Workforce
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Soaring Rents, Falling Wages

The growing gap between rents and incomes is stretching working families and seniors to the breaking point — while millionaire landlords and absentee corporations profit off our housing crisis.
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🚨 NEW REPORT: Bossware is on the rise in CA The P 🚨 NEW REPORT: Bossware is on the rise in CA

The People’s Tech Coalition is a statewide alliance building power to establish workers’ rights for the 21st century.

Today, we’re sounding the alarm on bossware in California—algorithms, AI, and digital surveillance technologies increasingly used to track workers, measure performance, and make decisions on the job.

Our new report takes a closer look at how bossware impacts workers—and what protections workers need against the misuse of these technologies.

📖 Read the full report at report.NoRoboBosses.org 🚫🤖
Workers fought against Big Tech—and won! ✊🔥 Despi Workers fought against Big Tech—and won! ✊🔥

Despite opposition from powerful, well-funded tech lobbyists, California workers and unions fought for and won groundbreaking new protections against the harmful uses of AI in the workplace.

From limiting AI surveillance to requiring human oversight in workplace decisions, these new laws are a major step toward ensuring technology works for people, not just corporate profits.

But the fight is far from over. Several important bills failed to become law, and gaps in existing protections still leave many workers vulnerable. We're celebrating these hard-fought victories while continuing to organize for a future where every worker has dignity, privacy, and a voice in how technology shapes their lives.

Swipe to see what workers won—and what we're still fighting for. ➡️
🗳️ Vote-by-mail ballots are arriving this week! Fo 🗳️ Vote-by-mail ballots are arriving this week! Follow along and share the following key dates with your friends, families, and enemies:

📅 OCT 5: Ballots begin being mailed out.
📅 OCT 19: Last Day to Register to Vote using the regular process
📅 OCT 24: Vote Centers Open
📅 OCT 27: Last Recommended Day to Mail Your Ballot

📅 NOV 3: Election Day !!

#MyVoteMyHealth #VoteByMail #November2026General #CaliforniaVotes
📸 Relive Champions for Change with our full photo 📸 Relive Champions for Change with our full photo album, now on Facebook! ✨

Champions for Change 2026 brought together the people who organize, lead, and fight every day for a Silicon Valley that works for everyone. We’re grateful to everyone who joined us to celebrate this year's victories, and the champions who continue to lead our movement forward.

Look back at the night, find your favorite moments, and once again celebrate the community that made the night so special. 🧡💙💛

Check out the full album at the link in our bio—and thank you for making our 2026 Champions for Change a night to remember. 🥂

📸 Relive Champions for Change with our full photo album, now on Facebook! ✨

Champions for Change 2026 brought together the people who organize, lead, and fight every day for a Silicon Valley that works for everyone. We’re grateful to everyone who joined us to celebrate this year's victories, and the champions who continue to lead our movement forward.

Look back at the night, find your favorite moments, and once again celebrate the community that made the night so special. 🧡💙💛

Check out the full album at the link in our bio—and thank you for making our 2026 Champions for Change a night to remember. 🥂

The night was kicked off with an amazing and captivating performance by @akbayansjsu—captured in this photo and many more in our full album! 

📸 Relive Champions for Change with our full photo album, now on Facebook! ✨

📸 Relive Champions for Change with our full photo album, now on Facebook! ✨

Champions for Change 2026 brought together the people who organize, lead, and fight every day for a Silicon Valley that works for everyone. We’re grateful to everyone who joined us to celebrate this year's victories, and the champions who continue to lead our movement forward.

Look back at the night, find your favorite moments, and once again celebrate the community that made the night so special. 🧡💙💛

Check out the full album at the link in our bio—and thank you for making our 2026 Champions for Change a night to remember. 🥂

📸 Relive Champions for Change with our full photo album, now on Facebook! ✨

Champions for Change 2026 brought together the peopl
The workers' rights we appreciate today didn't hap The workers' rights we appreciate today didn't happen by accident—they were fought and organized for. ✊

This past Labor Day, we brought together resources, legal experts, and the community. This resource fair was our way of connecting neighbors with real support while celebrating the wins that built the labor movement.

#LaborDay #FairWork
Thank you for celebrating another year of bold lea Thank you for celebrating another year of bold leadership and solidarity with us at our 2026 Champions for Change gala! 💐 

This incredible evening could not have been possible without our Champions for Change sponsors, table ambassadors, donors, and our community who never stops showing up for each other.

#C4C26
The eight-hour day. The weekend. The right to orga The eight-hour day. The weekend. The right to organize. Workers fought for all of it—now we're fighting for the right to shape how AI gets used at work.

From warehouse monitoring apps to algorithms that build (and rebuild) schedules without understanding real workloads, "bossware" is reshaping work across industries and leaving workers without any say in the process.

Workers deserve real rights for the 21st century: the right to know before a monitoring system is deployed, the right to human review before AI-driven discipline or firing, the right to see and correct the data collected about them, and so much more.

#PeoplesTechCoalition #TechJustice
This is what people power looks like. 💪 100+ wor This is what people power looks like. 💪 

100+ workers, neighbors, and organizers joined together in San José to launch the People’s Technology Coalition—fighting back against bossware, black-box algorithms, and surveillance creep. 

Our data. Our work. Our future!

#PeoplesTechCoalition #TechJustice
Fighting for the People in the halls of Congress 🏛 Fighting for the People in the halls of Congress 🏛️⁠
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This year, we're honoring a leader who takes on bold fights in Congress and champions bills that protect and empower working families and the most vulnerable.⁠
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From calling for prosecution of ICE agents terrorizing our communities to pushing back against corporate abuses, Congressman @rokhannausa is a leader who is unafraid to act before it's safe—before it's popular. ⁠
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He is of the strongest supporters of the California labor movement in Congress today. Representing over 760,000 constituents in the Bay Area,  he continuously fights side by side with the labor movement to enact policies that help and protect working families. ⁠
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Join us at Champions For Change 2026 on Sep 17 as we celebrate Congressman Ro Khanna as one of this year's Champions.🏆⁠
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🎟️ Get your tickets today at the link in our bio!⁠
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#C4C26
Our data, our work, our future ✊ We're going to b Our data, our work, our future ✊

We're going to be at San José City Hall tomorrow to fight for 21st Century technology rights for workers and communities!

Whether you're a worker, student, resident, or ally, join us in building a strong coalition to win rights over digital technologies, and demanding responsible use of tech and AI.

Learn more at the link in our bio 🔗
Patients Over Palantir—Workers over Watchdogs ✊ W Patients Over Palantir—Workers over Watchdogs ✊

We want AI and data systems that protect patients and workers—not surveillance tools that profit off our information while cutting corners on care. Responsible tech isn’t optional. 

Join us as we come together with workers, unions, and community members demanding transparency, accountability, oversight, and real guardrails on how tech and data are used in our workplaces and our lives!

📅 Tuesday, SEP 1 | 12pm | San José City Hall

Link in bio 🔗

#PatientsOverPalantir #OurDataOurWorkOurFuture #TechJustice
Silicon Valley is known for technology, investment Silicon Valley is known for technology, investment, and big ideas, but innovation begins with people.⁠
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Today, we're joining the the Immigrant Protection & Empowerment Network (IPEN) in launching People Power Innovation, a campaign to recognize and support the immigrants who make Silicon Valley possible - from those who build the next tech innovations to the janitors, security guards,  and cafeteria workers who are the critical backbone that keeps the tech industry running. ⁠
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The campaign calls on tech workers, companies, leaders, and residents to stand with immigrant communities and help protect the people behind the region’s success.⁠
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Swipe to learn about the campaign and how you can participate. ➡️⁠
Follow @PeoplePowerInnovation, share this post, and invite others to join us. ⁠
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#PeoplePowerInnovation #ImmigrantsPowerSiliconValley⁠
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