California Labor Policy Strategies

In this strategy discussion with the California Labor Federation, Organizing Director Chloe Osmer will discuss the ways in which California labor has worked on policy with strategic campaigns in the past. What policies have worked and which haven’t? What policy goals are realistic given the current political climate? And how can researchers help improve chances of policy coming to life? Prepare to discuss all of these topics in the session.

Chloe Osmer is the Organizing Director for the California Labor Federation. Chloe has worked on workplace rights and organizing for the past twenty years. She previously served as Senior Advisor to the California Labor Commissioner, where she assisted with the creation and implementation of enforcement plans for new workplace laws. Prior to that Chloe was the Organizing Director for the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, where she created a new department that supported organizing campaigns and trained hundreds of union and worker center members on organizing. Chloe also worked on organizing and policy campaigns with unions in multiple industries as a senior organizer with the AFL-CIO and was the Strategic Campaign Coordinator and Acting Director of the CLEAN Carwash Campaign. Her work on CLEAN included developing strategies to help carwash workers improve safety conditions, and she led policy work and communications for the Campaign. Chloe earned her Master’s Degree in Public Policy from UCLA, where she completed her Applied Policy Project on an analysis of legislation affecting carwash workers.