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Coalitions:
Through the California Chamber’s issue-based coalitions, members have a vehicle for direct action. Each coalition is an opportunity for industry peers and concerned individuals to gain strength in numbers.

To join a coalition contact: Deanna Tibbett at (916) 444-6670


Economic Development

California Businesses for Enterprise Zones
Promotes strengthening and improving California's Enterprise Zone Program as a tool for local economic development and opposes attempts to reduce or restrict the program in a manner that harms businesses or impedes local economic development efforts.
Staff Contact: Kyla Christoffersen

Energy

Californians for Clean and Reliable Energy (Cal-CARE) 
A statewide coalition of residential consumers, small business owners and government leaders dedicated to ensuring that California has a reliable supply of electricity. This coalition supports the Sunrise Powerlink, a new electricity transmission line proposed to strengthen the state's power grid and energy security by bringing renewable energy from the desert in southeast California to the Southern California power grid near San Diego. Visit the Cal-CARE website
Staff Contact: Amisha Patel

Employment

California Employers Coalition
Comprised of employers and employer association representatives, CEC reviews and comments directly on issues that affect the employer/employee relationship. This coalition is the consensus voice of California employers to the state Legislature and state agency boards regarding the impact of proposed laws and regulations on businesses.
Staff Contact: Marti Fisher

California Employer Coalition on Heat Stress — Represents the views of California employers to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health and to the Cal/OSHA Standards Board in the form of written comments and testimony regarding potential impacts proposed regulations on heat stress might have on California businesses and their workers.
Staff Contact: Marti Fisher

California Employers Coalition on Meal and Rest Period — Represents the views of California employers to the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement and the Legislature regarding potential impacts proposed regulations and legislation on meal and rest periods might have on California businesses and their workers.
Staff Contact: Marti Fisher

Coalition for California Jobs
Promotes job growth in California and publishes the annual “Job Killer List.”    www.calchamber.com/jobkillers
Staff Contact: Jeanne Cain

Workers' Compensation Action Network (WCAN)
Works to ensure that workers’ compensation reforms are implemented as the reformers intended. WCAN plays a “watchdog” role to ensure that its members and the media are informed about the implementation process so the legislative gains are protected, costs are reduced and the system is more efficient for employers and injured workers.
Staff Contact: Jason Schmelzer

California Coalition on Workers' Compensation (CCWC)
Works to repair California's high-cost and litigious workers' compensation system. CCWC is a statewide coalition of public and private employers, both large and small, representing more than 250 employers and numerous trade associations.
Staff Contact: Jason Schmelzer

Environment

AB 32 Implementation Group — A coalition of businesses working together to ensure that the implementation of AB 32, California's landmark law aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, is done in a way that accomplishes the environmental goals of the act while preserving the economy.
Visit the AB 32 Implementation Group website
Staff Contact: Amisha Patel

Californians for a Sound Fuel Strategy
Promotes diesel power to be competitive, works to preserve California Air Resources Board’s commitment to “fuel neutrality” and protect California’s common-sense approach to reducing fleet emissions - without needlessly harming economic growth.  
Staff Contact: Amisha Patel

Driving Toward a Cleaner California
A statewide coalition aimed at working with the California Air Resources Board to ensure that when an emissions regulation is adopted, it truly reflects the right balance between protecting the environment and ensuring that California’s business climate and economy remain strong.
Visit the coalition website at drivecleanca.org
Staff Contact: Jason Schmelzer

The Thursday Group
Seeks to promote an agenda that strikes a reasonable balance between economic growth and environmental protection. The goal of the Thursday Group is to encourage California decision-makers to work with the group to strike a reasonable compromise between the impact of legislation on California’s economy and environmental protection.
Staff Contact: Jason Schmelzer

Health

Californians for Affordable Health Reform (CAHR)
Promotes health care reform that reduces costs, increases access, improves care and avoids employer mandates.
Staff Contact: Marti Fisher 

Information

Alliance for Fair Information Practices — Promotes the balance between protecting personal privacy and the economic and social benefits derived from information practices involving the collection and use of personally identifiable, demographic, credit, financing, transaction and medical information.
Staff Contact: Jeanne Cain

International

The American Business Coalition for Doha (ABCDoha)
An umbrella group of companies, associations and other organizations dedicated to achieving ambitious results from the current round of multilateral trade negotiations in the World Trade Organization, known as the Doha Development Agenda or Doha Round. For further information visit www.abcdoha.org
Staff contact: Susanne Stirling

Federation of International Trade Associations
Founded in 1984, fosters international trade by strengthening the role of local, regional, and national associations throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada that have an international mission. For further information visit: www.fita.org. 
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling

Latin America Trade Coalition
A broad-based group of U.S. companies and business organizations working to secure Congressional approval of the Trade Promotion Agreements with Colombia, Panama, and Peru.  The coalition meets regularly to advocate the highest commercial standards in the agreement and to discuss strategy for eventually securing Congressional ratification of the Latin Trade Promotion Agreements. The Coalition currently has more than 540 companies and associations involved. For further information visit http://www.latradecoalition.org/portal/latc/default
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling

Trade for America
Trade for America is a diverse coalition of companies and trade associations from every sector of the U.S. economy committed to securing renewal of trade negotiating authority and the benefits of trade for American workers, farmers, and consumers. For further information, visit www.tradeforamerica.org/    
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling

TradeRoots
TradeRoots is the only sustained, national trade education program dedicated to raising grassroots support and public awareness about the importance of international trade to local communities. Through strong partnerships with associations, local chambers of commerce, economic development groups, and the business community, TradeRoots takes the U.S. Chamber's message of promoting free enterprise and individual opportunity to local communities across the country. Visit: http://www.traderoots.org/home.asp
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling

U.S. Council for International Business (USCIB)
A select alliance of organizations, including the California Chamber of Commerce involved in international trade via a Leadership Cabinet of the USCIB. For further information, please visit: www.uscib.org/index.asp?documentID=2533
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling

U.S.-Korea FTA Business Coalition
Broad-based group of over 100 leading U.S. companies and trade associations that strongly support the conclusion and passage of a free trade agreement between the United States and the Republic of Korea.  The Coalition will work to ensure the negotiation of a comprehensive and commercially viable FTA with Korea that advances the interests of the U.S. business community and promotes further bilateral trade and investment. For further information, visit: www.uskoreafta.org 
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling

U.S.-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Business Coalition
A coalition of organizations and companies strongly committed to promoting the negotiation, passage, and implementation of a commercially meaningful and comprehensive bilateral FTA between the United States and Malaysia. Made up of over 50 American business organizations and individual companies from a broad range of industries, the Coalition is the premier voice representing US business interests in the US-Malaysia FTA process. For further information, visit:  http://www.us-asean.org/US-Malaysia%20FTA/index.asp 
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling

U.S.-Thailand Free Trade Agreement Business Coalition
A group of U.S. companies and businesses that will lobby for a premium agreement, and to ensure U.S. business interests are well represented. For further information, visit: www.us-asean.org/us-thai-fta/
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling

U.S.-Vietnam WTO Coalition
A broad based group of companies and business organizations supporting the granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations for Vietnam and accession into the World Trade Organization. For further information visit www.usvtc.org/coalition.asp.
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling

USA * Engage
A broad-based coalition launched in 1997 representing American business and agriculture. This coalition is an effort to encourage policymakers at the federal, state and local levels to seek more effective ways of reacting to objectionable actions and policies of foreign governments other than by imposing unilateral economic sanctions. To learn more visit: www.usaengage.org.
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling

Waterfront Coalition
Is a group of concerned business interests representing shippers, transportation providers, and others in the transportation supply chain committed to educate policy makers and the public about the economic importance of ports, and to promote the most efficient and technologically advanced ports for the 21st century. For further information visit: www.portmod.org.
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling

Legal Reform

Advancing Disability Access Coalition (ADA Coalition)
Promotes statewide efforts to facilitate better compliance with disability access laws, to encourage resolution of access issues without litigation, and to reduce the use of litigation as a means of seeking monetary profit rather than improved access. 
Staff Contact: Kyla Christoffersen

Intellectual Property Rights Working Group
Consists of CalChamber members who are interested in being involved with CalChamber policy development and advocacy efforts in the area of intellectual property rights (IPR) and want to keep apprised of pending state legislation or policy issues having an impact on IPR.
Staff Contact: Kyla Christoffersen

Taxation

Business and Taxpayers for Fair Fees
Works to reverse the damage caused by the Sinclair Paint Supreme Court decision. The Sinclair Paint decision wipes out taxpayer protections and exposes taxpayers to a new array of tax-like fees by authorizing state and local governments to levy tax-like fees on business and individuals in California without a popular vote for local taxes and without a two-thirds legislative vote for state taxes.
Staff Contact: Kyla Christoffersen