About Us

The Oakland-based Coalition for Clean & Safe Ports is an alliance of port truck drivers, environmental, environmental justice, labor, public health, faith and community organizations dedicated to sustainable economic development at our nation's ports. We are working to make the Port trucking system more efficient, reduce air pollution, improve the quality of jobs and stimulate greater economic opportunities for residents living in surrounding port communities.  To ensure a level playing field, we work with coalitions that are organizing in other port communities including Los Angeles, Long Beach, Seattle and New York/New Jersey so that standards are lifted regionally and no one port is put at a competitive disadvantage.

Steering Committee

·        Alameda Labor Council, AFL-CIO

·        Change to Win

·        East Bay Alliance for Sustainable Economy

·        East Bay Community Law Center

·        Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice

·        International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union

·        Pacific Institute

·        West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project

·        The Workforce Collaborative

Partial List of Endorsing Members

AFSCME Local 2428, East Bay Regional Parks District

AFSCME District Council 57

Alameda County Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO

Alameda County Public Health Department

Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson

Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley

American Lung Association in California

Assemblymember Loni Hancock

Assemblymember Sandré Swanson

Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Alameda County Chapter

Asian Pacific Environmental Network

Association of South Asian Political Activists, UC Berkeley

Association of South Asians Taking Action

Bay Area Clean Air Task Force

Bay Cities Baptist Minister’s Union

Bishop Aurea Lewis, International African Methodist Church

Bishop Bob Jackson, ACTS Full Gospel COGIC

Bishop J.E. Watkins, Jack London Square Chapel

Breathe California

California Healthy Communities Network

California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO

California Student Public Interest Group, UC Berkeley

Carpenters, Local 713

Center for Environmental Health

City of Berkeley Public Health

Clean Water Action

Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice

Coalition for Clean Air

Commonweal

Communities for a Better Environment

Communities for Clean Ports

Council President Jane Brunner

Councilmember Ignacio De La Fuente

Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan

Councilmember Jean Quan

Earthjustice

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

Emmanuel Church of Christ (Holiness) USA

Father Greg Chisholm, St. Patrick's Catholic Church

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives

Global Exchange

Gurdwara Sahib, Fremont

Healthy San Leandro Environmental Collaborative

Human Impact Partners

IAM Local 1546

ILWU Locals 6, 10, 34, and 75

Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance

Just Transition Alliance

David Kramer, former Oakland Port Commissioner

LifeLong Medical Care

National Employment Law Project

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Oakland Black Caucus

Oakland City Council Member Rebecca Kaplan 

Pastors of Oakland

People for Children’s Health and Environmental Justice

Rabbi David Cooper, Kehilla Community Synagogue

Regional Asthma Management & Prevention Initiative

Rev. Kathy Huff, First Unitarian Church of Oakland

Rev. Clarence Johnson, Mills Grove Christian Church

Rev. Kurt Kuhwald, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists

Rev. Dr. Marvis V. Peoples, Liberty Hill MB Church

Rev. Ron Swisher, Taylor Memorial United Methodist Church

Rev. Dr. Claude Wilson, Havenscourt Community Church

Sailors’ Union of the Pacific

SEIU Locals 1021 and 1877

Seminarians for Worker Justice

Servant Brian Woodson, Bay Area Christian Connection

Sierra Club, Northern Alameda County Group

Tennis and Health Center of West Oakland

UNITE HERE Local 2850

Urban Habitat

Urban Strategies Council

VietUnity

Vote Health

West Oakland Neighbors

West Oakland Project Area Committee

WorkSafe