Economy & Jobs
In Congress, Janice will fight to create new jobs, expand clean energy technologies and ensure that local small business owners get the help and opportunities they need to flourish in a global economy.
As a local leader, Janice has balanced multi-billion dollar budgets, cut wasteful spending and created thousands of new jobs. She knows how to move our economy forward.
Janice’s number one priority will be creating sustainable, well-paying jobs in the 36th District. In Congress, Janice will fight for tax incentives to foster innovation, encourage businesses to make new hires, and attract investment in local industry. Janice will work to create more high skill, high wage jobs by investing in hi-tech industries, including the South Bay aerospace industries.
As America’s economy is transformed and new, clean-tech industries emerge, there is no better place for this innovation to take place than in the 36th District. It has two of the top economic engines in the region – the Port at the southern boundary and LAX at the northern boundary. Janice will fight to bring new companies, federal research programs, and other industries to our area.
And she’ll work to make sure those who have lost their jobs aren’t left behind. She’ll support expanded job training programs for workers who have been displaced, and help integrate these workers into our new economy.
Organized Labor
Janice is a strong supporter of organized labor and the rights of workers to organize. Janice has always stood on behalf of those who have built this country and who want to rebuild and renew it again.
She is proud to have walked the picket lines with the ILWU when they were locked out of the docks in 2002. She successfully fought to see that hotel workers along the Century Corridor near LAX received a fair living wage; implemented a system to provide quality family health care for workers at Los Angeles World Airports and has worked to get struggling, independent truck drivers at the Port of Los Angeles well-paying long-term jobs.
She has stood with airport workers, grocery workers, court interpreters, nurses, and others, in the struggle for good jobs. Janice strongly believes that there should never be a class of people termed the “working poor.” People who work hard should not be poor in California.
Janice has been endorsed by over 15 individual labor organizations, including the United Steel Workers, Iron Workers local 416 and 433, Los Angeles County Firefighters local 1014, Torrance Firefighters Association local 1138, and Unite HERE local 11.
For more on Councilwoman Janice Hahn’s record on labor click here A True Friend of Labor with the Record to Prove It