R-9 Correspondence – LAANE
From: Grecia Lopez-Reyes [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 4:39 PM
To: Mayor Garcia <[email protected]>; Mary Zendejas <[email protected]>; Cindy Allen <[email protected]>; Suzie Price <[email protected]>; Daryl Supernaw <[email protected]>; Stacy Mungo <[email protected]>; Suely Saro <[email protected]>; Roberto Uranga <[email protected]>; Al Austin <[email protected]>; Rex Richardson <[email protected]> Cc: CityClerk <[email protected]>; Diana Tang <[email protected]>; Connor Lock <[email protected]>; Jack Cunningham <[email protected]>; Barbara Moore <[email protected]>; Holly Unruh <[email protected]>; Chork Nim <[email protected]>; Celina Luna <[email protected]>; Lynette Johnson <[email protected]>; Matthew Hamlett <[email protected]> Subject: Support for Agenda Item #9 - Permanent Adoption of Right of Recall and Retention Ordinances
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Dear Honorable Mayor and City Council,
On behalf of LAANE's Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs, I am sending the attached letter in strong support of item #9 - to make Long Beach’s Right of Recall and Retention ordinances permanent policies.
We urge you to prioritize the needs of essential workers and the economic stability of working families to ensure that they have these important protections in place amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and future economic crises.
Please see the attached letter.
Thank you!
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Grecia Lopez-Reyes
Director, Long Beach Coalition
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
E [email protected]
T 213.977.9400 x106
M 424.221.3809
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464 Lucas Ave. Suite 202
Los Angeles, CA 90017
www.laane.org
February 10, 2022 Honorable Mayor and Members of the Long Beach City Council 411 W Ocean Blvd., 11th Floor Long Beach, CA 90802 RE: Right of Recall and Retention Ordinances Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council, On behalf of LAANE’s Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs, we are writing to express our strong support for Long Beach’s Right of Recall and Retention ordinances to become permanent policies in our City. We urge you to prioritize the needs of essential workers and ensure that they have these important protections in place for future economic crises. The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that we are all interconnected, our lives and our livelihoods depend on getting through this public health crisis together with dignity for everyone. In May of 2020 Long Beach led the nation in putting workers first when they voted unanimously to pass ordinances to protect workers’ right to return to work after massive job loss during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitality and janitorial workers are essential workers, they are key to our ongoing recovery. But they have been the hardest hit during this pandemic. We fought for essential workers’ right to return to work after being laid off. These policies have been critical to protecting the lives and livelihoods of Long Beach workers. We are concerned that these protections are in danger of repeal, threatening the livelihoods of the essential workers that are still dealing with hardships during the recovery process. The COVID-19 pandemic is not over and we need to make sure everyone recovers, not just the privileged few who can work from the safety of their homes. Our city’s leaders must do everything possible to prevent a deeper social and economic crisis with race and class defining who does well and who does not. You all as our elected officials are well positioned to take the necessary steps needed to address the needs this emergency has heightened. As community members, our goal is for all of us to be safe and healthy, and we must center the people most impacted -- this is not a new approach. It’s called equity. Racial and economic equity is the way forward yesterday, today and tomorrow, and at this moment, more crucial than
ever. We urge the Long Beach City Council to make these protections permanent. Recovery means everyone! Sincerely, Grecia Lopez-Reyes Director, LAANE- LB Coalition for Good Jobs