campaigns
#EchoBlackVoices
Amplifying Black Worker Voices
In 2024, the Southern California Black Worker Hub launched the #EchoBlackVoices campaign through the CA Worker Outreach Project (CWOP) in collaboration with our regional Black Worker Centers and partners. In 2025 we aim to create Access, Pathways, Protections and empowerment space for Black workers by deepening organizing around worker rights, labor laws and holistic wellness for Black workers.
Senate Bill 1340
SB 1340 Passed
Senate Bill (SB) 1340 was passed by the California Governor to enforce workplace discrimination laws, ensuring that workers are treated with dignity and respect.
Despite legal protections under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), discrimination continues to plague our workplaces, with Black workers bearing the brunt of it. SB 1340 aims to change that and create a more equitable society for all.
By expanding enforcement capabilities to local agencies, SB 1340 will provide timely resolutions to discrimination complaints and strengthen protections for Black workers.
Senate Bill 16
Regional Education & Research Campaign
The Senate Bill (SB) 16 Regional Education & Research Campaign was a practice of regional coordination through learning and exploration utilizing SB 16 and relationship building throughout the SoCal Black Worker Hub network.
LABWC Ready 2 Work
The Los Angeles Black Worker Center's (LABWC) Ready 2 Work program aims to advocate for equitable access and retention for Black workers to be employed in quality careers, free of discrimination with opportunities for leadership by promoting equitable policies and meaningful direct placements.
IEBWC IE Works Water Apprenticeship
Inland Empire Works (IEWorks) was a campaign devoted to strengthening the water/wastewater workforce by creating equitable pathways to water/wastewater careers.
San diego Black Worker Center
The San Diego Black Worker Center has developed campaigns hosting a series of focus groups, separated by sector, to identify key barriers, common trends, and issues the Black community face in the current workforce.
Worker Wellness Earthlodge Center for Transformation
In collaboration with the Southern California Black Worker Hub for Regional Organizing, the Earthlodge Center for Transformation provides worker wellness spaces for Black community members.
Worker Wellness Covid Workplace Outreach Project
Since 2021, the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency funded the SoCal BW Hub and its partners through the state's CWOP initiative to provide COVID-related resources.
previous campaigns
Essential Stories was a movement-building advocacy campaign created to uplift the voices and experiences of Black workers in California to ensure Black workers received equitable and long-term COVID-19 recovery supports, resources, and protections.
in the news
Stay up to date with Southern California Black Workers Hub press releases. You can read past and present news stories on various topics dealing with SoCal BWH and the constant fight for equality for Black workers in the workplace.
SB 16 Research and education campaign
- Senate Bill 16 specifies that local enforcement agencies can enforce prohibitions against discrimination in employment and housing.
- As a sponsoring partner of SB 16, the Southern California Black Worker Hub for Regional Organizing advocates for the protections and wellness of Black workers in fighting against workplace discrimination and worker empowerment.
LABWC Ready 2 Work
- The Ready 2 Work program aims to advocate for equitable access and retention for Black workers to be employed in quality careers, free of discrimination with opportunities for leadership by promoting equitable policies and meaningful direct placements.
- Ready 2 Work is a three-month process that includes an orientation- which introduces participants to the program expectations, the vision, and goals of the LABWC.
IEBWC IE Works Water Apprenticeship
- Inland Empire Works (IEWorks) is devoted to strengthening the water/wastewater workforce by creating equitable pathways to water/wastewater careers. In collaboration with community partners and water agencies, IEWorks aspires to train and employ future water professionals.
San Diego Black Worker Center
SDBWC Focus Groups
The San Diego Black Worker Center is hosting a series of focus groups, separated by sector, to identify key barriers, common trends, and issues the Black community face in the current workforce.
Working While Black (WWB)
In partnership with The National Black Worker Center, the WWB video series, grassroots campaigns, WWB Expo, and training bring the truth of Black workers out of the shadows – using our stories to create change.
Learn Together, Heal Together Series
The Learn Together, Heal Together Series is a mixture of workshops and events centered around a holistic approach to organizing by addressing not only the physical needs of Black Workers, but the mental and spiritual needs as well.
Worker Wellness Earthlodge Center for Transformation
- In collaboration with the Southern California Black Worker Hub for Regional Organizing, Earthlodge Center for Transformation provides worker wellness spaces for Black community members to be present and share life experiences while exploring the empowerment of trauma healing through grounding exercises, understanding the importance of mental health care and knowing worker rights.
Worker Wellness Covid Workplace Outreach Project
- Since 2021, the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency funded the SoCal BW Hub and its partners through CWOP to provide Covid-related resources to nearly 20,000 Black workers, partner with 12+ Black serving CBOs and unions, and collect 12+ stories from Black workers. We will continue our partnership with Earthlodge to ensure that Black workers have resources for wellness at work, a high priority for Black workers navigating the challenges of Covid-19. Our outreach activities over the last two years have included text and phone banking, community listening sessions, tabling at in-person events. We are also actively advocating for the expansion of CWOP funds to non-Covid related worker rights; and developing a plan to institutionalize the program with long-term funding and training for Black workers.