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Business Advocacy is a premiere benefit to our Chamber members. The Board of Directors and Government Affairs Committee tracks and takes positions on legislation that promote beneficial business legislation and discourage detrimental regulations. The issues range from increases in workers compensation, higher taxes, costs of permits, business license fees to employment issues and healthcare costs.
We are very effective at representing your interests with local, state and federal government.
Additionally, through the California Chamber of Commerce each Chamber members is asked to contribute to the Cal Chamber PAC (Political Action Committee), so we can send representatives to Sacramento that have the best interest of Business in mind and show it through action.
Together, our voice for business is strong and is always heard.
Are you worried about California's economy and its job market? Never before have California's employers and workers faced a more threatening political environment. Currently, the Legislature is considering more than 100 bills that will eliminate jobs by imposing new fees, taxes and mandates on California employers. Virtually every business in California is targeted by these multiple pieces of legislation ranging from damaging to devastating. The price tag? Nearly $65 billion, according to the California Taxpayers Association.
These onerous measures impose burdensome or unnecessary regulations that increase costs on businesses, create new workplace mandates, increase litigation, expand government at businesses' expense, criminalize inadvertent business error, or impose new or higher fees and taxes.
Employers unable to raise prices or absorb new costs from these bills have hard choices: go out of business, relocate out of California, lay off employees, reduce benefits or reduce wages. California has already lost 283,000 high wage manufacturing jobs since January 2001, including 5,200 this past April alone.
California jobs and the income tax revenues they produce are the state's number one resource for funding the budget. Protecting jobs and growing the workforce in the state will directly affect the amount of money the state has available to fund programs and services to its citizens.
We must improve our business climate to keep California businesses in California and put us on the road to economic recovery — and job creation for all of California's working families.
It's time to hold our legislators accountable for their impact on California's job climate. We must stop these "job killer" proposals and encourage our legislators to start enacting "job creators" -- or risk further harm to our stagnant economy. Lawmakers must ask themselves this question as they review each and every bill: "Does this proposal put jobs first?" If a legislative proposal does not put jobs first and help to revive our stagnant economy by improving the job climate for California's working families, legislators must vote against it.
The Jobs 1st campaign has been organized by the Coalition for California Jobs, a coalition of small and large businesses and organizations united to fight anti-jobs legislation and protect and create jobs in California.
Visit www.cajobsfirst.org to learn more about these devastating proposals and send a message to your legislator to start putting jobs first in California.
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