Eleventh Annual San Francisco Living Wage Coalition Awards Dinner 

Eleventh Annual San Francisco Living Wage Coalition Awards Dinner
Eleventh Annual San Francisco Living Wage Coalition Awards Dinner on Friday, July 30, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. with cultural and musical performances, as an online Zoom event. Take-out dinners can be picked up at San Jalisco restaurant at 901 South Van Ness Avenue at 20th Street (ph 415-648-8383) to help support a family-owned restaurant that has supported labor and the community.

Honorees: Labor Woman of the Year award – Vernell Hawkins, retired member of American Postal Workers Union Local 2. Labor Man of the Year award – David Bacon, member of the Pacific Media Workers Guild CWA Local 39521.

The San Francisco Living Wage Coalition was born out of Labor’s efforts to work with the community in organizing non-union workers. These efforts included using legislative strategies to improve their wages and working conditions, building a workers movement and creating the conditions for unionizing. Our efforts initiated a movement that led to trail-blazing local wage and benefit laws and, in conjunction with unions, organizing drives and collective bargaining agreements.

The Living Wage Coalition’s current work are workshops and campaigns to organize workers and educate the community on a Five Point Program to reverse income inequality, including protecting and expanding union and public sector jobs; ending mass incarceration by the penal system; stopping the repressive immigration system; fixing a broken welfare-to-work system; and replacing free trade with fair trade.

Tickets – $35 per ticket in advance or a group rate of $250 for eight tickets in advance bought before July 26. Tickets are for a Zoom link and take-out dinner. We have special sponsorship levels and congratulations in the printed program if received by July 23.

For more information or to purchase tickets, contact the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition at 415-863-1225 or sflivingwage@riseup.net or go to https://www.livingwage-sf.org/11th-annual-awards-dinner/ to become a sponsor or buy a ticket.