Minutes from Labor Committee Meeting 2-10-17 @ 2:30 pm

Attendees: Mana (LAAW), Aradhana T, Victoria (ALC), Dongmei and Christina (DPH), Kimberly (SFDA), Tony (AMTA-CA), Claudia (LATINAN), Emily (RTI), Martha (larkin street youth services), Seema (sf office of labor standards enforcement), Beverly (govt affair, ca massage council), Carole (LAAW), Minouche (DOSW)

•  Stanford Online HT Training
  • MK: Launched 1/20/17
    • Self-paced training; any amount of time; completely free; need internet access;
      • 3 modules – general public, hospitality industry, restaurant industry
    • Lagunita.stanford.edu/courses
    • Whole thing is less than an hour; even available on cell phone
    • Stanford included a pre-survey (voluntary) that asks industry types/background to gather data on who is watching it;
    • Quizzes – to get certificate, must pass quizzes
    • First training that Stanford has done for the lay audience; so they had to create a new category; “Humanities/Sciences – HumTrfkgAwrns”
    • NoTrafickAhead – creating a map for businesses that have completed the online training
    • In English now, working on translating it into Spanish, Cantonese, and Tagalog (over the next couple of months)
    • Follow up:
      • Who is interested in doing outreach to the industries that would benefit from the trainings?
        • Sign up for working group, if interested
          • Ie. Dept of Commerce
        • Can this be done concurrently with SB1193?
          • 1193 subset is specific, and does not apply to hospitality and a wider network of restaurants
        • (BM) Two bills have been introduced to include hotels and motels  - will send to MK more info
          • AB260 – Santiago is the author – requires postings to hotels and motels
          • SB225 -???
      • AT – potential to be used for foreigners visiting the us, used in consulates for those coming on h2a/h2b or diplomatic visas via consular processing; maybe reaching out to dept of state
        • LATINAN – has contacts with Mexican Consulate
        • Outreach being done at Mexican Consulate; maybe including other consulates for the monthly presentations?
  • Healthy Nail Salon Update
    • VC @ALC: voluntary program on safe practices and environmental practices and can get a “sticker” at the completion of ‘training’
      • Includes info on labor rights and ht violations
      • Reviewing Chinese translation of ppt; Vietnamese ppt should be done in the next week and alc will review it;
      • DEH will work with ALC to practice the ppt; and make sure that labor rights portions are communicated effectively
      • 95% of nail technicians speak Vietnamese
      • the trainer is also a nail technician
    • Follow up
      • Pushing the word out to consumers: SIGN UP if interested in expanding the healthy nail salon program to include info on labor rights
        • Only 30 out of the 200+ that are participating
      • tech involvement?
        • Reached out to google and yelp
  • Mayors TF – one of the goals are to distribute the work among the CBOs and community, and not falling so heavily on the govt employees working on the TF
  • Prioritize Work Plan for Labor Committee
    • Handout of “Possible Goals” ---Vote on the handout, and sign up on the sheets if interested
      • Prioritized
        • 1. Resource List got the most votes on priority
        • 2. Stanford
        • 3. Healthy nails, regional efforts, shelters  (tied)
        • ???
      • Next Steps – By Volunteers and Prioritized
        • 1. Resource List
          • SFCAHT has an online directory
          • DOSW has a one page document in SF
          • Point Person for Follow-up
            • Aradhana T
          • Set timeline after figuring out what is already going on
        • 2. Stanford Training
          • Point Person for Follow UP
            • Minouche K
        • (tied 3) Healthy Nails
          • point person for follow up
            • Victoria at ALC
        • (tied 3) employment / vocational services
          • Point person for Follow-up
            • Claudia at LATINAN
        • (tied 3) housing policy and program
          • no volunteers; will table for now
        • 4. Stakeholders
          • Point person for follow up
            • Minouche K
        • 5. Collabo with Regional Efforts
          • report back after mtgs
        • 6. Leveraging City Purchasing
          • Point person for follow up
            • tbd
          • Seema (not doing point, but can connect someone to the purchaser)
        • 7. Record Expungement
          • Point person for follow up
            • tbd
    • Shelter as a priority
      • So much focus on shelters for sex trafficking only, to bring into the convo labor victims
    • Add’l stakeholders, to include more of the following groups
      • Ie;Labor unions, Business groups (office of small business’s menika)
      • Involving them and doing outreach to identify signs because they are being adversely affected (individual businesses or groups; unions; etc) or otherwise
    • Expand employment/vocational services for survivors
      • Employment readiness training and workplaces that could be sensitive to their history so they are not re-exploited/re-traumatized
      • LATINAN: has a trainer that works with groups in Alameda County –
    • Regional efforts with other TFs
      • Cross communication across the various county/state players
      • Bay area talking about problems as one front, being a liaison at other TFs
        • Reporting back to sf labor committee mtg; what is being done, and what is being addressed or needing to be addressed
    • Healthy Nail Salon
    • Create a Resource List and ensure survivor’s connection to services and support
      • Mayors tf has one from 2 years ago, could use revamping
    • Record expungements for persons trafficked, and to be documented in the annual report, and work collaboratively to get more expungements
      • Include someone from Clean Slate program at Public Defender’s office?
      • CA legal language that says that if they did not know about their immig consequences,they can go back and try to get immigrants’ records expunged
    • Stanford Onlien HT training
    • Leverage city purchasing to priority trafficking supply chains
      • City agencies and govt for sweat free and food-wise purchasing
        • Ie. Dph , sheriff’s dept; mayb including the actual purchaser for the City
      • Dept dedicated to purchasing – goal is to bring them to sit in on the task forces
  • Regional Collabo
    •  To invite
      • Immigrant Legal Defense Collab (SFILDC) – leah used to be the contact, maybe AT can follow up now, will let people know
      • Young workers united (connection has been established, interested, but still waiting)
      • Larkin street (came!)
      • MUA – Hediana volunteered, but not here today
  • Next steps
    • How often should we meet? Traditionally it has been every 3 months; lets keep it that way
      • But in the interim, the working groups can meet
    • Next mtg? 2:30 pm - 4 pm
      • May 12 – location tbd
      • August 11 – location tbd
      • Nov 3 – location tbd
  • Updates
    • DPH Brochure for massage program produced
      • Through focus groups and been finalized from the feedback
      • Program is growing
    • APILO’s brown bag series
      • 2/15 – workers rights workshop at womens’ building
      • 2/22 – doc film night and discussion about illegal fishing industry and global supply chain and ht