About Us
Achievements
2008
- Started work on online database of work and family contract provisions
- Working on state and federal legislation on paid sick days and paid family leave
2007
- Released Quality Child Care: A Guide for Working Parents
- Produced Flex Pack – a toolkit on worker-controlled flexibility
- Launched new website enriched with downloadable resources
2006
- Trained union educators on addressing work and family issues using our curriculum Making It Work Better
- Convened the Work and Family Coalition to enhance California’s family leave laws and other work and family legislation
2005
- Published A Job and A Life – an organizing and bargaining guide for unions
2004
- Formed the Paid Family Leave Collaborative to educate workers about California’s Paid Family Leave law
2003
- Celebrated 10th anniversary of partnering with unions and advocating for working families
- Addressed unions at the AFL-CIO Work and Family Conference
- Helped start the MultiState Working Families Consortium
2002
- Led labor-community coalition to help pass the nation’s first Paid Family Leave law in California
2001
- Published work and family Bargaining Fact Sheets with the AFL-CIO
2000
- Convened VOICE – a coalition of unions and child care organizations
- Offered union trainings on work and family issues
1994-1999
- Helped develop HERE Local 2’s Child and Elder Care Fund
- Formed first Work and Family Coalition in California
- Co-authored the Work and Family Bill of Rights with unions
1993
- Created database of work and family contract provisions – the first such database in the country
1992
- Labor Project for Working Families founded with funding from United Way and unions
- Published first newsletter – Labor News for Working Families
