• Councilwoman Hahn improved working conditions for hotel workers along Century Boulevard near LAX in Los Angeles. She joined workers in their marches, rally and helped break the fast that the workers participated in. She defended 75 suspended workers at one hotel, meeting with hotel management to insist they were reinstated. She refused to stay, eat or meet in any of their hotels until they treated their employees fairly.

• It was Councilwoman Hahn that authored the legislation to create a living wage for these workers and ensured that they receive their tips. Thanks to the Councilwoman, these workers are now being paid fairly and many of the hotels are in the process of becoming unionized.

• Councilwoman Hahn has been the driving force behind the effort to provide full family health insurance for workers at Los Angeles International Airport. While these workers are paid a living wage, the amount included to provide health care ($1.25 and hour) was not enough for workers to buy insurance or to incentivize employers to provide insurance in lieu of the fee. The Councilwoman garnered the unanimous support of her City Council colleagues to increase the amount to $4.50 an hour. Today, thanks to Councilwoman Hahn, these employees and their families have real access to health care.

• Councilwoman Hahn stood hand in hand with nurses at King/Drew Hospital in Willowbrook to prevent its closure. As the County Board of Supervisors systematically dismantled the hospital, the Councilwoman fought every step of the to keep the hospital open and fully operational. Councilwoman Hahn introduced City Council resolutions, testified before the Board of Supervisors, participated in town hall meetings and repeatedly provided comments to the press in an effort to maintain full service health care for the people of Watts & Willowbrook. The Councilwoman also defended the SEIU nurses at the hospital when they unfairly came under attack during the debate over the hospital’s closure.

• Councilwoman Hahn joined the men and women of UFCW in their strike and lockout. She joined in marches, boycotted the grocery stores and urged the stores to settle the dispute and treat their loyal employees with the respect they deserved.

• Councilwoman Hahn has fought alongside firefighters to keep stations fully operations during tough budget times. While many City officials have supported “brown outs” at our stations, the Councilwoman has worked to bring forward solutions to keep all of our engines and stations open at all times. She is proud to support the hard working men and women that put their lives on the line daily to keep us all safe.

• Councilwoman Hahn was instrumental in the adoption of the Clean Trucks Program at the Port of Los Angeles. The Program provides for previously independent truck drivers—who struggled to make ends meet and maintain their trucks—to become employees, receiving the wages and benefits they deserve. She is currently working with and supporting the Teamsters in their efforts to unionize the truck drivers.

• Councilwoman Hahn was a vocal advocate of the men and women of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union during their lockout in 2002. She joined workers on the picket lines and authored resolutions on the City Council admonishing the Pacific Maritime Association for locking the workers out. Additionally, she convened blue ribbon commission on conditions on the docks, providing data to assist with negotiations.

• While many said it could not be done, Councilwoman Hahn was able to open the gates at the Port of Los Angeles for additional night and weekend shifts, decreasing traffic significantly, but also creating new shifts for ILWU workers.

• When the largest new construction project in a decade at the Port of Los Angeles faced a possible two-year litigation delay, Councilwoman Hahn brokered an unprecedented deal to move the project forward, creating 4,000 new construction and 15,000 ongoing jobs, including ILWU jobs. The agreement between environmentalists, community residents and industry stakeholders led to an unprecedented agreement to compensate communities for the negative effects of port operations.

• Councilwoman Hahn was instrumental in preserving the early retirement program that had been negotiated in good faith with the City’s coalition of labor unions. The deal was placed in jeopardy when the City’s budget outlook grew worse. Against the advise of the Mayor, some Councilmembers and City staff, Councilwoman Hahn was insistent that the deal be protected and that further negotiations take place to find a solution. She sat in on negotiations, and oftentimes broke from the closed session meetings of the City Council, to ensure that the deal was fair and acceptable to the Coalition. Her leadership paved the way to a mutually beneficial program that reduces the City’s workforce through early retirement incentives instead of through layoffs and furloughs.

• Councilwoman Hahn has stood hand in hand with teachers, fighting for smaller classes and better pay. A former teacher herself, Janice realizes the challenges facing our teachers today. She is adamantly opposed to the current proposals to raise fees in the UC and CSU systems and has proposed new ways to raise revenue to fund quality higher education for every eligible student in California.

• Councilwoman has proven her loyalty to working men and women time and time again. She has stood with, marched with, rallied with and supported airport workers, grocery workers, court interpreters, nurses, janitors, hotel and restaurant workers, communications workers, City and County employees and others, in the struggle for good jobs. She strongly believes that there should never be a class of people termed the “working poor.” People who work hard should not be poor./