national levels, and supported affiliate unions in their bargaining and contract negotiations when necessary. While at the Labor Council, Paulson oversaw the passage of the Health Care Security Ordinance which requires that employers make Health Care Expenditures (health insurance, City Option payments, etc.) on behalf of their workers. He was also instrumental in passing the $15 minimum wage increase for the City and County of San Francisco in 2014, and the Retail Employee Rights Ordinances, which regulates hours, retention, scheduling, and treatment of part-time employees at some Formula Retail Establishments. Additionally, Paulson established the community benefits agreement for the revitalization of San Francisco's Hunters Point Shipyard. The community benefits agreement included over 10,000 new homes, 35% designated workforce affordable, and development that requires living wage jobs. Paulson also secured a donation agreement on behalf of the developer of over $35 million to support the community during the build out for workforce development, education, and other needs. Under his leadership at the San Francisco Labor Council, Paulson established the first union Immigrant Rights center in the nation, We Rise SF, a resource for documented, undocumented, and citizen workers in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. Paulson is the current Secretary-Treasurer of the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council after a unanimous election in July 2018. Board and committees Paulson has served various committees and boards, including AFL–CIO Presidents John Sweeney and Richard Trumka's National Advisory Committee on State Federations and Central Labor Councils, and the California Labor Federation's Strategic Advisory Committee, which is composed of representatives of the 15 largest international unions in California charged with coordinating and organizing political strategies. Paulson has also been a trustee to various Taft–Hartley Health and Welfare and Pension trust funds, and in the early 1990s coordinated the Tile Layers' Local 19s Northern California Work Preservation organizing program which generated millions of dollars of employment during that recession. Paulson was the Vice President of the statewide California Federation of Labor, AFL–CIO, which represents over 2,000 California unions. Additionally, while at the Labor Council, Paulson was a director of the United Way of the Bay Area, and was appointed by Janet Yellen to serve on the Community Advisory Board of the San Francisco branch of the Federal Reserve Bank. Paulson is the chair of the San Francisco State University Labor Archives Board, and serves on both the San Francisco City College Labor Studies and