In early August, CPD partner Working Partnerships USA delivered another victory with the expansion of the Santa Clara County’s living wage law that passed earlier this year.

Now, 17,000 county employees as well as the county’s subcontracted workers already covered will receive $19/hour, earned sick time and predictable, flexible schedules with access to additional hours for part-time workers.

The Silicon Valley campaign coordinated by WPUSA has also seen some union victories with the bus drivers of tech companies like Google and Facebook voting to unionize with the Teamsters. Regularly, those bus drivers are saddled with grueling 15 hour days and unpaid split shifts. This essentially means they only get paid for eight hours of work and never see their families. This has been covered extensively including in the NY Times.