The City Council in American Canyon passed a Hero/Hazard Pay Ordinance with a unanimous vote. The ordinance will give frontline essential workers in the grocery industry a $5 an hour raise for 120 days beginning in 10 days. It will affect the Safeway and Wal-Mart stores in American Canyon.
Mayor Leon Garcia and Councilmembers Aboudamous, Joseph, Oro and Washington not only voted for the ordinance but were all passionate about their support for working families, especially the members that spoke about working during a pandemic with the uncertainty of returning home each day not knowing if they had put their loved ones at risk. We are asking that you reach out to all of them, send a text, email, phone call or smoke signal and thank them for validating that they truly share our values. We want to also thank all our Siblings and Napa Working Families Coalition partners that reached out and asked the council to support this ordinance and those that took the time to attend the meeting or write letters of support.
We also had a great evening in the City of Napa at their Priorities Workshop. Besides the commitment to address the needs of their workforce they also prioritized having a study session on Project Labor Agreements and prequalification to educate staff and the public on the benefits of using a PLA. Another Labor priority to make the list was placing the Hero/Hazard pay on the agenda. Mayor Sedgley and Councilmembers Luros, Alessio, Painter and Narvaez all spoke in support of both issues and we look forward to working with them to bring them to fruition.
Again we have to thank our Napa Working Family Coalition Siblings who showed that the work that we are doing together is helping to change the Cities and County into a more labor friendly place to live and work. It is so much more powerful when friends in the Housing, Environmental, Business and political of the community speak with one voice. Great Work!
Jon Riley
Executive Director
Napa/Solano CLC
