Latest Endorsements
Earlier this month, our members voted to make the following endorsements:
- Right to Housing Slate (Avery, Alfred, Dominique, Xavier) for Rent Board
- Jenny Guarino for City Council District 2
- YES on Berkeley Measure W (Fund homeless services)
- YES on Berkeley Measure AA (increase Berkeley’s appropriations limit for the next 4 years)
- YES on Berkeley Measure BB (Tenant Protection & Right to Organize)
- NO on Berkeley Measure CC (Gut rent control ordinance and divert housing retention funds to a landlord slush fund)
- YES on Proposition 32 (minimum wage increase)
- YES on Proposition 33 (repeal Costa-Hawkins)
- YES on Proposition 6 (ban involuntary servitude)
Our members also voted to endorse Regional Measure 4 ($20 billion affordable housing bond). However, BAHFA voted to withdraw Measure 4 while our membership vote was ongoing.
Additionally, our members previously voted to endorse:
- Nikki Fortunato Bas for Alameda County Supervisor
- Margot Smith for State Assembly
- Jovanka Beckles for State Senate
- YES on Berkeley Measure GG (Tax large buildings’ greenhouse gas emissions to fund building decarbonization retrofits using union labor)
- YES on Berkeley Measure HH (Set minimum air quality standards in City of Berkeley buildings)
- NO on recalling Pamela Price
The BTU membership also previously voted to endorse YES on a ballot measure to repeal Article XXXIV of the California Constitution. However, the State Legislature subsequently withdrew that measure from the ballot.