Reports And Articles

Check Please! Health and Working Conditions in San Francisco Chinatown Restaurants September 2010 (pdf)

Working Paper: Findings from an Observational Survey of Chinatown Restaurants July 2009 (pdf)

A Health Impact Assessment of the Healthy Families Act of 2009 June 2009 (pdf)

UNIDOS Final Report February 2009 (pdf)

Health Impact Assessment of CA Healthy Families, Healthy Workplaces Act of 2008 July 2008 (pdf)

SFDPH Restaurant Health and Safety Checklist July 2008 (pdf)

UNIDOS Report on Day Laborers' Access to Medical Services July 2007 (pdf)

Tales of a City’s Workers: A Profile of Work and Health in San Francisco. June 2007 (pdf)

Healthy jobs for all: what will it take February 2007 (external link)

UNIDOS Evaluation Report: Pilot Vocational Training Evaluation Summary June 2005 (pdf)

UNIDOS Evaluation Report: Domestic Workers’ Experiences with Survey and Data Entry April 2005 (pdf)

UNIDOS Evaluation Report: Launching a United Workers Course February 2005 (pdf)

SFDPH's Safe Device Committee: A participatory approach to injury prevention 2005(external link)

Estimation of Health Benefits From a Local Living Wage Ordinance 2001 (pdf)

Public Testimony & Legislative Overviews

June 2010 Testimony to the California Assembly Labor and Employment Committee on Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 163 (pdf)

June 2009 Testimony to U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and Labor on the Healthy Families Act of 2009 (pdf)

April 2008 Testimony to the California Assembly Labor Committee on the California Healthy Places, Healthy Workplaces Act (AB 2716) (pdf)

July 2006 Testimony to San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee in support of proposed amendments to the Minimum Compensation Ordinance (pdf).

July 2006 Overview of the health impacts of the CA Overtime Pay for Personal Attendants Bill (AB 2536) (pdf)

March 2006 Testimony to San Francisco Board of Supervisors on the potential benefits of a mandatory sick leave benefit for San Francisco workers (pdf).

SFDPH Resources

SFDPH Overview of Health Agency Enforcement Roles -- October 2009

UNIDOS Digital Stories (English & Spanish)

UNIDOS Discussion Guide for “Nuestro Trabajo es Bien Honesto (Our Work is Honest Work)” Digital Stories (in English)

Ten minute segments of Nuestro Trabajo es Bien Honesto (In English and Spanish):

“Nuestro Trabajo es Bien Honesto/Our Work is Honest Work” Part 1

“Nuestro Trabajo es Bien Honesto/Our Work is Honest Work” Part 2

“Nuestro Trabajo es Bien Honesto/Our Work is Honest Work” Part 3

“Nuestro Trabajo es Bien Honesto/Our Work is Honest Work” Part 4

“Nuestro Trabajo es Bien Honesto/Our Work is Honest Work” Part 5

“Nuestro Trabajo es Bien Honesto/Our Work is Honest Work” Part 6

UNIDOS Telenovela & Discussion Guide on Safe Moving Practices

UNIDOS Discussion Guide for “Mudanzas con los Jornaleros (Day Laborers Moving)” Telenovela Video

Youtube.com links to "Mudanzas con los Jornaleros"/ "Day Laborers Moving" Video (Spanish):

“Mudanzas con los Jornaleros/Day Laborers Moving” Part 1

“Mudanzas con los Jornaleros/Day Laborers Moving” Part 2

“Mudanzas con los Jornaleros/Day Laborers Moving” Part 3

“Mudanzas con los Jornaleros/Day Laborers Moving” Part 4

UNIDOS Handouts and Flyers

In English

Flyer for employers of day laborers about how to protect their workers’ health and safety

Flyer for employers of domestic workers about how to protect their workers’ health and safety

In Spanish

Poster on Preventing Lead Poisoning in Construction Work

Flyer on Health and Safety

Flyer on Safe Gardening Practices

Flyer on Wage Rights

Flyer on San Francisco Public Clinics’ Locations and Hours

Draft Outline for Presentation on Chemical Hazards

Draft Outline for Presentation on Cal/OSHA

Draft Outline for Presentation on Ergonomics

Additional UNIDOS Resources

If you are seeking information on the Vocational Training Curriculum, the Dignified Cleaning Training Curriculum, or the United Workers' Course Curriculum, please contact:

Karen Yu

Email: Karen.yu@sfdph.org

Phone: (415) 252-3957

Others’ Resources

General Worker Rights Information

LOHP Healthy Jobs Call to Action

LRCL Flyers on Work-Related Rights Under San Francisco’s and California’s Labor Laws (in Spanish)

KIWA Know Your Rights Resources

UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program

IRLE Work and Health Initiative

Unregulated Work in the Global City & Industry Specific Fact Sheets

NYT Editorial - Workers in America, Cheated - 9/2/09

Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America's Cities

Confronting the Gloves Off Economy - America's Broken Labor Standards and How to Fix Them

Day Laborers

NDLON: Research Studies on Day Laborers

Press Release: "DA Charges Man for Swindling Day Laborers Out of Wages" (March 2007)

Domestic Workers

Behind Closed Doors: Working Conditions of CA Household Workers (March 2007)

Home Is Where the Work Is: Inside NY's Domestic Work Industry (July 2006)

NELP Handbook "Rights Begin at Home: Defending Domestic Workers’ Rights in CA" (March 2009)

New York Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights

Restaurant Workers

ROCNY: Great Service Divide: Occupational Segregation and Inequality in the New York City Restaurant Industry (2009)

ROCNY: Behind the Kitchen Door: Pervasive Inequality in New York City's Thriving Restaurant Industry (2005)

KIWA: At Risk in the Restaurant: Perilous health and safety conditions in one of Koreatown’s key industries (2007)