Oakland Mayor Jean Quan joins Sponsors at LiUNA!, Local 304. Our First Asian-American, Woman, Labor Leader Mayor!

Laborers' Foundation conducts education/outreach at LiUNA! 304. Mayor Jean Quan to meet with workers.

The men & women of LiUNA!, Local 304 and their leadership are very appreciative of the companys and partners that helped make this evening a sucesss. They are:
CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR JOBS
CALIFORNIA LABORERS' Legislative Department
CALIFORNIA LABORERS for Equality & Progress
LiUNA!, Local 261
SHIMMICK CONSTRUCTION
UNITED LABOR BANK
Gold Sponsorship Level

ANDES CONSTRUCTION
BILL GATES
FLATIRON, INC.
LiUNA!, Local 270
LiUNA!, Local 291
LiUNA!, Local 300
LiUNA!, Local 389
McGUIRE & HESTOR
NIBBI BROTHERS, INC
WEINBERG, ROGER, & ROSENFELD
Silver Sponsorship Level

Many, many thanks to the Event Sponsors and their Friends.

Fraternally,
Fernando Estrada
Business Manager

Unique Partnership at Chinatown Night Market. LiUNA! & SEIU-UHW join forces to help workers!

In April 2011, the Laborers Community & Training Foundation joined with Brothers & Sisters at SEIU-UHW to form a unique partnership to help get preapprentices job opportunities at the SF Chinatown Night Market. The Board Chairman Ramon Hernadez stated "This opportunity to work with our good friends in Chinatown/North Beach is a great first step at reaching out to the Community to bring them into our Trade Union Movement. I am enthusiastic about the Market and how much it means to the surrounding community...we are excited that SEIU-UHW gave us an opportunity to be a part of something that is so great for San Francisco."

LCTF gives many thanks to generous sponsors, Electeds, City Family, and Friends of Labor!

Thank you for celebrating with us and sharing our Mission and objectives. See more pics of our celebration of 43rd Mayor Edwin M. Lee here. State Senator Leland Yee, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, City Attorney Dennis Herrera, City Assessor Phil Ting, Board President David Chiu, Supervisors Eric Mar, Mark Farrell, Scott Weiner, Malia Cohen, Ross Mirkarimi, John Avalos, College Board Trustees John Rizzo & Chris Jackson, Tim Paulson, Mike Theriault, SF Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White, Commission President Mark Buell, Commission President Francesca Vietor, Senator Art Torres, Mikki Callahan, Martin Gran, Ed Harrington, Phil Ginsburg, Ed Reiskin, Al Casciato, Tom Harrison, Monique Moyer, Jane Morrison, Tom O'Connor, Vitus Leung, Steve Nakajima, Leon Chow, Olga Miranda, Ahsha Safai, Art Gonzalez, Manny Flores, Mike Brown, Rafael Cabrera, Gloria Fauss, Steve Falk, Jim Lazarus, Ken Cleaveland, Rob Black, Rhonda Simmons, Stuart Sunshine, Harlan Kelley, Anita Sanchez, Juliet Lewis, Lisa Seitz-Gruwell, Tom Hsieh, James Bryant, Brajah Norris, Holli Their, Joshua Arce, Esther Marks, Tony Fazio, Meagan Levitan, LiUNA! Vice President Rocco Davis, Fernando Estrada, James Homer, the 3410 SFRPD Apprenticeship class, 10 new construction industry graduates and great Union Members!

Laborers' Community & Training Foundation Welcomes 43rd Mayor Edwin M. Lee & Rings in the New Year!

Dear Brothers, Sisters, & Friends of Labor:

Edwin M. Lee, 58, is the 43rd Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco. The former City Administrator, Lee was appointed unanimously as successor mayor by the Board of Supervisors on January 11, 2011 to fill the remaining year of former Mayor Gavin Newsom’s term, who was sworn in as California’s Lieutenant Governor on Monday, January 10th. Lee is the first Asian-American mayor in San Francisco history.

Come Celebrate with us!

Laborers' Foundation

Labor, Business, & Community leaders join "Friends of Labor" to celebrate 43rd SF Mayor Edwin Lee!

The Laborers' Local 261 Community Service and Training Foundation is a local non-profit and union affiliated organization founded in 2008 by Oscar De La Torre. The mission of LCTF is to empower low-income and under-served residents of San Francisco through job training and placement. Please join Labor, Business, & Community leaders as we celebrate our new Mayor and ring in the New Year!

In general, the overarching goal for most special events is to raise the necessary funds to create the infrastructure for our organization to expand and grow. We primarily develop a Job Assistance programs that provide unemployed San Francisco residents support and assistance in the areas of job readiness training, union dues assistance, job placement, unemployment aid, and overall case management.

The Laborers Union Local 261 is a vital and creative force within San Francisco and a leader in maintaining the beauty and infrastructure of our City. LCTF continues this great tradition. We focus our work and training on “cleaning and greening” San Francisco, and as we grow, the Bay Area.

Kindly let us know if you business or group would like a sponorship package to assist the Alliance for Jobs in coordinated efforts with the LCTF, Asian Neighborhood Designs, and A. Philip Randolf Institute in 2011. Your support will help LCTF and partners to continue to prepare hundreds of San Franciscans for employment through economic and green job development programs.

Laborers' Community & Training Foundation gets new seat on prestigious Board.

Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) envisions a future in which American cities are the greenest and most equitable in the world, leading the way to natural resource protection and national security, while creating a vital new economic sector.
ECC is a national non-profit organization committed to building a new economy for a new America. ECC is based in Washington, D.C. and operates affiliate offices across the country to advance energy efficiency and sustainable development strategies that also improve job quality, job access and social equity. Our collaborative comprises more than 21 national organizations from all sectors of the economy. By pooling our assets and working together, we are able to build stronger, more resilient communities throughout America’s metropolitan regions. Amid the rapid changes underway within the larger economy, environment and society, ECC offers our local partners training, technical assistance and financing to ensure that regions remain secure, competitive and prosperous.
ECC partners—economic, environmental, and social development organizations—help to re-examine and re-engineer our natural, built and social environments toward a robust and vibrant clean-energy economy. We specialize in high-road energy efficiency strategies with a focus on retrofitting the entire urban building stock. We are engaged, however, in all aspects of infrastructure and natural resource development. This involves creating the economic, physical and civic infrastructure that protects our communities against natural resource depletion and environmental disasters, while promoting a more diverse, locally based economy that intentionally includes all races, ethnicities and classes as civic planners and beneficiaries of the new green economy.