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The Pajaro Levee Break, Immigrants, Labor & Climate Crisis With PVFT1936's Pamela Sexton 
PVFT Local 1936 Delegate Pamela Beth Sexton adult education teacher talks about the effect of the broken levee on the immigrant farmworker community, systemic racism and the role these farmworkers play in our economy....
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2023 7:56pm PDT
Solidarity With East Palestine/Hunters Point & Nationalize The Railroads: Action in SF 
A rally was held at the San Francisco Federal Building on March 13, 2023 to connect the toxic rail wreck disaster in East Palestine with the Hunters Point-Treasure Island toxic clean-up scandal. Over $1 billion was spent by the US government to pay for a clean-up of the radioactive dump site and Tetra Tech managers were charged and convicted with fraud in the clean-up. The company also retaliated against health and safety whistleblowers with terminations. It is presently being sued by the DOJ...
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2023 7:50pm PDT
Facebook Unite Here Local 19 Workers Demand Justice From Billionaire Owner Zuckerberg 
One hundred Facebook service food workers who are members of Unite HERE 19 were layed off at Facebook in Menlo Park. Although engineers and others are getting severance Facebook and it's owner Mark Zuckerberg refuse to give these benefits to these service workers. Workers rallied outside Facebook headquarters on March 1, 2023....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2023 7:34pm PST
SF Rally To Stop The War In Ukraine On The First Year Anniversary On the one year anniversary of the Ukraine war a rally was held against US intervention....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2023 4:12pm PST
International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) March and Rally to Free Mumia 
Hundreds of ILWU members and supporters demand freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal as part of ongoing campaign...
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2023 12:54pm PST
Free Mumia & Stop Racist Police Murders! For General Strikes To Stop Racist Terror & Murders The UFCLP calls for mass worker/labor actions including general strikes to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and racist police terror and murder. We also protest the San Francisco Labor Council bureaucrats who opposed supporting the ILWU Local 10 initiated march and rally. These bureaucrats like the national AFL-CIO leadership continue to support the Democrats and Republicans who support more funding for the police along with their militarization. The AFL-CIO, SEIU, IBT, CWA and other unions continue to ...
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2023 5:44am PST
Angela Davis Speaks For The Freedom of Mumia & ILWU Local 10 Stop Work Action To Free Him 
Angela Davis spoke out for the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal and also for ILWU Local 10 which is having a stop work meeting on 2/16/23 with a rally from their union hall to Harry Bridges Plaza to support the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2023 5:54pm PST
Music, Art and Poetry at Twitter Offices Invite Elon Musk to Go to Mars 
Poetry, art and concert to "Put Musk on Autopilot to Mars" wakes up quiet Market Street week-end morning....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2023 10:32am PST
Put The Bird DOWN Elon At Twitter! Launch Musk On Autopilot To Mars NOW! 
Artists, poets and labor activists rallied in front of Twitter to demand that Elon Musk be sent to Mars on autopilot. They also spoke out against the illegal layoffs at Twitter and the violations of health and safety along with racist working conditions at Tesla which is called the plantation by Tesla workers....
Posted: Sun, Feb 12, 2023 12:56pm PST
Elon We Won't Back Down Unveiling At Tesla-Send Musk On Autopilot To Mars 
A campaign kickoff to send Elon to Mars on autopilot took place at the Tesla Fremont auto plant where 20,000 workers toil under slave like conditions. Black workers say it is like working at a plantation. The first unveiling of Elon's Rocketship to Mars painting by Bay Area artist Andrew Kong Knight also took place and the Angry Tired Teachers performed for the Tesla workers....
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2023 9:47am PST
ILWU10 To Shutdown Bay Area Ports On 2/16/23 To Free CWA-NABET Journalist & Prisoner Mumia 
Bay Area ILWU Local 10 has voted to close all Bay Area ports to demand the freedom of CWA NABET journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-jamal on February 16, 2023. They are also urging similar actions in the US and around the world....
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2023 1:18pm PST
Union Busting War On Apple Workers & NLRB Ruling For Fired Apple Worker Ashley M. Gjøvik 
Apple manager and whistleblower Ashley M. Gjøvik ann Monday January 31, 2023 won an NLRB ruling that she had been illegally retaliated against for speaking out publicly about health and safety issues at her office which was built on a superfund toxic site in Silicon Valley....
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2023 12:54am PST
Records reveal Xianmin Guan of Fremont as slumlord owner of mass murder mushroom farms 
California Terra Garden Inc., Incorporation Papers:...
Posted: Sat, Jan 28, 2023 3:22am PST
Farmworker communities call on the State to Rewrite Regulation of Cancer-Causing Pesticide 
One hundred farmworker community residents and their allies filled Cal EPA’s Byron Sher Auditorium, as well as participated through zoom, protesting the Department of Pesticide Regulation’s (DPR) proposed regulation for the cancer-causing pesticide 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D, brand name Telone). The Wednesday morning public hearing saw testimony from dozens of speakers asserting that their lives were “not worth 14 times less than other Californians.” The phrase was in reference to DPR’s choos...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2023 9:37am PST
SF Rally in Solidarity with the Workers & People of Peru: US Out of Peru 
A solidarity rally was held for the workers and people on Peru on January 1/13/23...
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2023 6:34pm PST
We Have Had Enough!They Have Crossed The Line! NNU-CNA Sutter Alta Bates Nurses Strike 
On January 1, over 100 striking NNU-CNA nurses and community supporters rallied at Sutter's Alta Bates hospital...
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2023 4:53pm PST
How About Living Wages? Three Hundred UFCW5 Members Strike SF Macy's Union Square Store 
Three hundred members of UFCW 5 went on strike against Macy's at the Union Square store in San Francisco. They are fighting for living wages....
Posted: Mon, Dec 26, 2022 8:42pm PST
Off to Space with You, Elon Musk! 
Union and labor activists facetiously called for Elon Musk to leave earth for the red planet with a protest at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco on December 19th....
Posted: Sun, Dec 25, 2022 2:39pm PST
NNU-CNA Sutter Alta Bates Hospital Nurses Fed Up & Strike Against Concession Contract 
1800 Sutter nurses at Berkeley Alta Bates and Summit hospitals have gone on a strike for ten days. They are angry at a concession agreement that was being pushed by the NNU-CNA leadership that would allow a two tier contract and would continue the loss nurses to Kaiser where nurses are paid $10 to $12 an hour more....
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2022 8:58pm PST
Starbucks Strike SF , SF "Ticket To Mars" Concert , Removal of TWU250a Pres& UAW180 Strike 
WorkWeek radio covers the Starbuck's in San Francisco. A Starbucks Worker In SF Speaks Out, "Ticket To Mars" Concert In SF, Murder Threats & Removal Of TWU250a President Roger Marenco and UAW Case Holland Tractor 7 Month Strike and their fight for justice....
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2022 6:59pm PST