Through the CalChamber’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. calchamber.com/ez
Staff Contact: Kyla Christoffersen

California Trade Coalition (CalTrade)
A collection of trade- and freight-related industries operating throughout California that actively seeks to re-establish California’s competitiveness as the lead gateway for international trade. Supports port infrastructure investment, higher trade volumes, intermodal congestion relief and the construction, longshore, trucking, warehousing and logistics jobs that go with it. calchamber.com/caltrade
Staff Contact: Thomas Vu

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: Brenda M. Coleman

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: Kyla Christoffersen

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: Kyla Christoffersen

Coalition for California Jobs
Promotes job growth in California and publishes the annual “Job Killer List.”    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: Thomas Vu

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: Thomas Vu

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: Brenda M. Coleman

Green Chemistry Alliance
A collection of trade associations and businesses that are working to ensure effective implementation of the California Green Chemistry Program that was authorized by AB 1879 (Feuer; D-Los Angeles, 2008) and SB 509 (Simitian; D-Palo Alto, 2008). The goal of the alliance is to ensure that the Green Chemistry Program is implemented in a way that allows for maximum environmental benefit and minimizes the economic impacts.
Staff Contact: Robert Callahan

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: Robert Callahan

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

Privacy Coalition
A coalition of businesses working together to ensure that privacy laws are reasonable, effective and balanced. The group reviews legislation regarding personal information, data collection, data security and Internet privacy measures.
Staff Contact: Valerie Nera

International

California Coalition for Free Trade
A broad-based group of companies and business organizations working to secure a national free trade agenda, as well as, Congressional approval of the Free Trade Agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea. In joining the coalition, we will include your company's or association's name on the rapidly growing list of members at no cost. We will keep you apprised of our international activities and bring to your attention ways that you can be supportive of the free trade agenda and the FTAs.
Download Membership Form
Current Coalition Membership
Coalition Letter to Congress re: US - Korean FTA - 08.05.08
Coalition Letter to President-Elect Obama - 11.10.08
Coalition Letter to President Obama re: Mexican Trucking Dispute - 04.13.09
Coalition Letter to USTR Kirk - 03.19.09
Coalition Letter to US Commerce Secretary Locke - 03.26.09
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling

CalAPEC 2011
A coalition of business, government and international organizations working to ensure that key meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) process in 2011 take place in California and that U.S. objectives reflect good policy for the Golden State. See CalChamber APEC portal page for more information.
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 and Panama.  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

TradeRoots
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/
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

Waterfront Coalition
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

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