Endorsements

If you are a Berkeley Resident, please endorse our initiative. To endorse,
email us your name (and, if you want, an affiliation for identification only).

Our initiative is endorsed by these organizations:

Sierra Club

Berkeley Democratic Club

National Women's Political Caucus - Alameda North

Green Party of Alameda County

Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club

Berkeley Gray Panthers

Berkeley Citizens Action

Council of Neighborhood Associations

Alameda County Democratic Party

The Daily Californian

... and by these elected officials:

Tom Bates, Mayor of Berkeley

Councilmember Max Anderson

Councilmember Jesse Arreguin

Councilmember Laurie Capitelli

Councilmember Darryl Moore

Councilmember Susan Wengraf

Councilmember Kriss Worthington

Councilmember Gordon Wozniak

... and by many individuals, including:

Bill McKibben: Founder of 350.org

"A valuable initiative. Academic research demonstrates shorter work hours cut carbon...."

- Bill McKibben, Founder of 350.org, author of Deep Economy and other books.

Prof. Juliet Schor: Author of True Wealth

"The Berkeley Flexible Work Time Initiative is a pioneering step in the direction of an economy that gives people more choice and enhances family and community life. And perhaps most surprisingly, it is also a vital step for constructing a pathway to a low-carbon economy that can protect our climate. My research shows that shorter hours of work have a strong impact in reducing carbon footprints and carbon emissions. I’m hopeful that the measure will pass."

- Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston College, author of True Wealth, The Overworked American, and other books.

John de Graaf: Director of Take Back Your Time

"As Executive Director of Take Back Your Time, I enthusiastically support the Berkeley flexible hours initiative. Overwork and rigid work schedules have been toxic to Americans' health and social connections, while actually harming rather than helping productivity and creativity. Berkeley has been a leader in smart ideas and best practices. I know that if this initiative passes it will greatly improve work-life balance in Berkeley, and those of us in the rest of the country will take notice and emulate your successes."

- John de Graaf, Executive Director of Take Back Your Time, co-author of Affluenza and of other books

Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Director of the Shalom Center

"Disemployment and overwork go hand in hand, depriving human individuals and communities of the values of both time for honorable work with a living income, and time for renewal of family, neighborly relations, grass-roots political activism, civic service, and spiritual search. Allowing choices of work hours would respond to the deepest teachings of all our traditions, that human beings and the Earth need time for reflective restfulness."

- Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Director of the Shalom Center, Philadelphia, PA

Joan Blades: Co-founder of moveon.org (video)

"It's wonderful that Berkeley has a Flexible Work Initiative being proposed. "

- Joan Blades, co-founder of moveon.org, founder of momsrising.org, author of The Custom-Fit Workplace and of other books.