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Alinsky Method

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  • home visit

- community organizing

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What percentage of workers in US are not unionized?

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89%

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What US city has the most sweatshops

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LA

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What led to the need or the Justice for Janitors campaign

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Contract work by employers

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What was the result of unionization in post-WWII US

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  • rise in healthcare
  • better conditions for work
  • job protections
  • expansion of middle class
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What groups of workers engage in immigrant rights organizing

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  • Latinx workers
  • AAPI workers
  • Black workers
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What is DACA

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a policy that allows individuals who meet program requirements to request a grant of deferred action (eligible for work authorization

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What is the CA Dream ACt

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  • package of California state
  • allows undocumented children brought to the US under 16 and attended school on a regular basis/meet instate tuition and GPA requirements to apply for student financial aid benefits
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What percentage of young workers give money to support their families

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48%

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What percentage of young workers dont have a set schedule

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90

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How many young workers werent paid for all hours they worked

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nearly 25%

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what percentage of young workers dont receive any benefits (health care, paid sick days)

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62%

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Young workers: (2 answers)

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  • are mostly still in school or have large educational debts

- rearrange lives around employer needs (on call)

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What are contract workers

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individual who enters a contractual agreement with a business to provide a service (in exchange for a fee)

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How many car wash companies were unionized by car wash workers of LA

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more than 20

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characteristics of day laborers

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mostly men and immigrants, face hazardous/precarious working conditions, underpaid and unsafe

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examples of wage theft (7)

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  • failure to pay overtime
  • violation of min. wage laws
  • misclassification of employees as independent workers
  • illegal deductions in pay
  • forcing work “off the clock”
  • not paying annual leave/holiday entitlements
  • not paying employees at all
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Who was Miguel Contrares

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  • Latino leader of LA labor movement
  • farmworker organizer
  • maried Maria Elena Durazo
  • former leader of HERE
  • Focused on W(orkers)OC, immigrants
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Mike Garcia

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  • President of Justice for Janitors Union
  • President of SEIU
  • died in 2017
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Who led delano grape strike (1965)

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filipino workers, latino workers (later at request)

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What strategy used by the Janitors for Justice campaign worked

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  • comprehensive campaign rooted in community narratives, large groups of ppl from all sectors
  • tactics like strikes/rallies/direct actions/disruptions/narratives in popular culture
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some characteristics of Hotel Workers of LA struggle

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  • demonstrations/civil disobedience, research and creative media
  • involved immigrant workers
  • led by Maria Elena Durazo
  • Research and advocacy center created through struggle
  • forced to work beyond traditional collective bargaining (leverage unions local clout to level playing field w multinational corporate employers)
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fastest growing minority in the US

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Asian Americans

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Model Minority Myth

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Asian Americans characterized as polite, law abiding, successful through innate talent and immigrant striving attitude

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first AAPI worker organization in US
APALA (Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance)
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Since the 80s, the LA Black population has declined from __% to __% while the inland empire has gained over 250k Black residents
13, 8 (100k)
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Black workers w/ high school or less education experience unemployment at almost ___ the rate as white workers (w same education)
double
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Black workers are underrepresented in _____ jobs
professional
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Black workers have lower rates in _____ positions
manager and supervisory
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Black workers earn only __% of what white workers earn
75 (even more severe for BW)
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Black workers experience _____ because of discrimination in employment
negative health outcomes
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APALAs stance on affirmative action
yes (?)
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who played a leading role in the fight for $15 in LA
LA County Fed of Labor
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Which is higher? Fed or CA min wage
CA
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What do Black Worker Centers do? (3)
- aid w union contracts - negotiate w employers - advocate for Black worker rights
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Who is the UCLA Downtown Labor Center dedicated to?
Rev. James Lawson Jr.
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What accounts for decline in union density (5)
- weak labor laws (dont protect worker rights) - hostile courts and govt policies - decrease in manufacturing sector jobs - growth in service sector jobs - deregulation, deindustrialization, globalization
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day laborer
unskilled worker, paid day by day, usually finds work in day labor marketplace, hardware store, etc
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Day Labor agencies
organizations that seek to match day laborers w fitting jobs (formalizes day labor)
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Wage theft
occurs when employers "steal" workers' wages by not paying them wages owed
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US Overtime law
workers must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at a rate not less than 1.5x their pay (no limit on number of hours 16+ employees may work, doesn't require overtime pay on weekends, holidays)
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Delano Grape strike length
5 years (1965-1970)
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Philip Vera Cruz
- Filipino Farm workers leader - AWOC founding member (Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee)-->merge w NFWA (UFW) - VP of union (for long time)
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Part time work
<35 hrs/week
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low wage
2/4 median hourly wage for full time workers
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J4J campaign important why (4)
- comprehensive campaigns - other unions raise bar - increase wages - proves capability of immigrants to be organized
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unpredictable schedule
idk its self explanatory (workers come in when needed)
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flexible scheduling started so that ______. now it is used for ______.
- salaried, full time white collar employees could have influence over hours - low wage workers
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nonstandard work (4)
part time work, temp and oncall work, contract work, self employment
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customer is always right
contributor to workplace harassment
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career immobility
lack of opportunities for tenure, upward mobility within job

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