On January 15th, the Emeryville City Council decided to uphold the City Manager's backwage order to the hotel! Their decision was an important victory on the road to backwages for the Woodfin workers. Now we need to make sure that the Woodfin pays up. Join us at a picket at the Woodfin on Wednesday, February 18th from 5:00-6:30 PM. Grab an umbrella, bundle up, and we'll see you on the picket line! If you have questions or to let us know that you're coming, contact Elizabeth at 510-893-7106 x 328 or Elizabeth[at]workingeastbay.org.

Come learn how you can help stop the systematic exploitation of millions of workers each year. Kim Bobo will be discussing her groundbreaking new book, Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid - And What We Can Do About It.

Get a free asthma screening. Find out about the health of your lungs. Tell the Port of Oakland to clean up the air by making the trucking industry take responsibility for a clean truck fleet.

Join us for the presentation of a new report on successful community benefit policies and projects in the nine-county Bay Area, entitled Building a Better Bay Area: Community Benefit Tools and Case Studies to Achieve Responsible Development.

Mayor Ron Dellums has appointed Ada Chan to the Oakland Planning Commission. Ada is an outstanding appointee to serve this role. The City Council must approve the Mayor's appointment of Ada. Increasing community voices on the Planning Commission is a critical step towards our vision of Building Oakland for Everyone. Please join EBASE and the Oakland NetWork for Responsible Development in supporting the appointment of Ada Chan to the Planning Commission Tuesday, July 1st.

Join us for a community forum with Congresswoman Barbara Lee addressing the impact of immigration enforcement on jobs and communities in the East Bay. Grassroots leaders will offer testimony about their experiences with neighborhood and workplace raids, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) activity near schools, and the use of "no-match" letters to fire workers and stifle organizing drives. Don't miss this chance to present our Congress representative with our vision for immigration reform that respects the contributions and protects the rights of all workers.

The Oakland People's Summit was just one step towards creating an Oakland that benefits all residents and workers. The fight to create good jobs, build more affordable housing and grow clean and healthy neighborhoods continues today!

The East Bay Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice is hosting its annual breakfast for 2008, "Welcome to the Table! Justice is Served." Join us as labor and faith leaders come together to renew and expand our mutual commitment to fighting for worker justice.

Once a year, the Transportation and Land Use Coalition (TALC) holds its signature event, the TALC Summit, which brings together hundreds of Bay Area advocates and professionals in support of a more sustainable and socially just region.

Join the March from City Hall to the Port of Oakland! Next week, Port Commissioners will vote on the first step towards instituting a Port Trucking Policy. For the past year, the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports has been fighting for a Clean Trucks Program that makes industry responsible for cleaning the air, ends the “sweatshop on wheels” system, includes a local jobs program, and makes drivers employees rather than independent contractors. Let the Port know we want a strong, clean trucks program!

EBASE and the Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice invite you to join us for a candlelit winter procession to the downtown Oakland ICE office. Help us show that we will stand together with immigrant families, even as our government tries to divide us. And help carry light into the darkness of fear and silence that ICE is trying to spread through our community.

Development in Oakland can and should create the benefits working families need – living wage jobs, affordable housing, and community hiring. Join with hundreds of Oakland residents and workers to hear about what’s really happening in Oakland’s economy. We will create a collective vision about the type of development our communities need. And we will call on our leaders and our fellow community members to join us in making that vision a reality!

Come to the Bay Area Book Launch party to celebrate the release of Changing Course: Windcall and the Art of Renewal by Susan Wells, Co-founder of the Windcall Resident Program.

Trick-or-Treat at the Woodfin Suites! Halloween is coming up - don't leave the Woodfin off your list! Join us as we picket outside the scariest haunted hotel in Emeryville.

This huge anti-war march and action is a part of a national day of action to end the war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Building the High Road ~ on the Way to a Just Economy! Celebrate 8 years of making the economy work for working people at EBASE's biennial fundraising dinner. Join us for an exciting program featuring a video tribute to a year of struggles and victories for East Bay working families, powerful testimony from grassroots leaders, and a special performance by the Brass Liberation Orchestra!

At a special hearing on August 27th, the Emeryville City Council can vote to end the bitter year-long conflict at the Woodfin Suites Hotel by ordering the hotel to pay workers their back wages. But the Woodfin has already suggested that it will try to delay the process indefinitely. Join us at the rally and hearing to tell the Council to hold strong and put an end to the conflict right then and there.

Join and support REDI in crafting a more equitable General Plan at the Richmond Equitable Development Community Forum and Action.

The East Bay Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice will host its annual Breakfast at the Claremont Resort & Spa (a unionized workplace). Join us as we bring together labor and faith leaders to renew and expand our commitment to fighting for worker justice.

Please join Woodfin workers, friends and supporters from the community and the labor movement at a Solidarity Barbeque and Fundraiser. Suggested Donation $20, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Contact Claire Haas at chaas[at]workingeastbay.org or 510-893-7106x27 for more information or to let us know you are coming! Thanks!

Join EBASE as we march for comprehensive immigration reform!

It’s been four years since tenant families, community groups, and the City of Oakland sued the Pacific Renaissance developers. Last May, the parties entered into a tentative settlement agreement that would have resulted in preserving the 50 affordable housing units as permanently affordable housing for the Chinatown community. Yet the wheels of justice currently turn slowly, while many of the Pacific Renaissance families face uncertain futures.

Four years ago, Oakland’s social justice community came together to support the Pacific Renaissance Plaza families who were being evicted from their homes. Please join us as we commemorate the families who stood up for housing rights and as we recommit to realizing justice for the Pacific Renaissance tenants and Oakland Chinatown.

Housekeepers at the Woodfin Suites Hotel are still struggling to keep their jobs after standing up for their rights under Emeryville’s living wage law. Throughout the country, immigrant workers are fighting to work, support their families, and be treated fairly – in a climate of racism, scapegoating and violent immigration raids. Come join Woodfin workers, faith leaders, Emeryville residents and friends in a ceremonial procession from Emeryville’s City Hall, through the Bay Street shopping center, and on to the Woodfin Suites. Show the Woodfin and other Emeryville businesses that we will stand with the housekeepers, and all immigrant workers, until they are free to work with dignity.

The Coalition for a Clean & Safe Ports invites you to a public discussion of the problems & potential solutions for the trucking industry at the Port of Oakland. Right now, the industry is broken - polluting our neighborhoods, abusing workers, and not creating the kind of job opportunities Oakland needs!

The Interfaith Committee for worker justice will meet to learn about EBASE's port truck driver's campaign. They will take a bus tour of the port, meet some truck drivers, and learn all about the campaign.

Join us for a holiday rally to support the workers of the Woodfin Hotel! We'll sing Christmas carols and spread the joy of the season to support worker justice.

We'll be having a community meeting to plan further actions the community can do to support Woodfin workers. Join us to learn more and find more ways you can help.

Join us for a community meeting. This will be an opportunity to talk to worker leaders in more depth, and brainstorm further actions to support the struggle of the workers at the Woodfin Hotel.

Passenger Service workers at Terminal 2 of the Oakland Airport are having a rally to support their organizing campaign to join a union.

In order to show support of workers at the Woodfin Hotel in Emeryville whose jobs are being threatened, please come to this high-energy, family-friendly, musical, candle-lit community protest. As part of this action, workers’ children will visit the hotel manager to ask him not to cut off their families’ livelihoods.

Hear from John Wilhelm, President of the Hospitality Division of UNITE-HERE, and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, head of the South Bay Labor Council, on strategies for addressing working poverty.

Join Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed, and Rev. James Lawson, civil rights movement leader, for a discussion on ending low-wage poverty.

The jobs of dozens of Woodfin Suites workers who are standing up for their rights under Measure C--a living wage and workload protection policy in Emeryville--are being threatened. Tell the Woodfin management to "clean up their act" and stop harassing workers!