Latest Endorsements - Berkeley Tenants Union

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.