SENATOR LONI HANCOCK RECEIVES 100% LABOR SCORECARD RATING

Sacramento -- Senator Loni Hancock (D-Oakland) announced today that she has received a perfect score on issues relating to workers’ rights and worker protection issues from the California Labor Federation. Senator Hancock received the 100% rating based on her votes on 33 bills that that mattered most to California’s working families during 2011.

According to California Labor Federation Executive Secretary-Treasurer Art Pulaski, “We salute Senator Hancock’s unwavering commitment to the California labor movement’s agenda of creating better jobs, stronger communities and greater opportunity for workers. The women and men who built this state, and whose work makes it run, deserve no less than the full support that she has demonstrated to restoring our state’s promise and creating an economy that works for all.”

Senator Hancock stated, “It is very important to me to insure that high quality jobs for working people are protected in our community. When Wall Street and the banks gambled with the U.S. economy and lost, it was working people who suffered – and continue to suffer – the terrible consequences.  That’s why it is so important for those of us in government to do all that we can to stimulate job creation and to insure that workers’ rights are protected.”

The full scorecard listing the 33 bills is available at:  http://www.calaborfed.org/userfiles/doc/2012/2011_CLFR3spreads.pdf