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California Teamsters are rallying at the California Attorney General Rob Bonta office on December 14, 2025 to demand that he shutdown the union election company Unilect. Members from locals from throughout state have reported that Unilect has been suspended and should not operating in California. The members are also demanding that there be new elections....

A UPTE CWA social worker at San Francisco General Hospital was murdered and complaints had been made to Cal-OSHA about the serious health and safety problems. The hospital bosses were fined $26,000 for not taking actin on health and safety and retaliating against health and safety whistleblower. At the same time Newsom and the Democrats are allowing Cal-OSHA to die....

WASHINGTON, December 4, 2025 — The Center for Biological Diversity and Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency and President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission today to address the health risks posed by the heavy use of toxic pesticides on Christmas trees....

A New Wave of Union Baristas Join Longest ULP Strike in Starbucks History as Allies and Customers Back Their Fight...

Governor Newsom and the California Legislature continue to allow Cal-OSHA to be destroyed. There are less than 200 Cal-OSHA inspectors for 18 million workers and inspections continue to decline putting the health and safety of workers in jeopardy...

OCEANO, Calif., November 21, 2025 — In response to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, a federal court has ruled that the California Department of Parks and Recreation violated the Endangered Species Act by allowing motorized vehicle use that harms imperiled shorebirds at the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area....

PORTLAND, Ore.; November 17, 2025 — In the most comprehensive tracking study of monarch butterfly migration ever conducted, a collaboration of over 20 research and conservation organizations across four countries has successfully tracked individual monarchs over thousands of miles. The butterflies were followed from locations throughout North America and the Caribbean to their overwintering sites in Mexico using revolutionary ultralight transmitters and an innovative network that turns milli...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., November 4, 2025 — The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors today voted 4-1 to prepare written findings to support denying transferring permits from ExxonMobil to Sable Offshore Corp. for an embattled onshore pipeline system that caused one of California’s worst oil spills. The board will hold a final vote on Dec. 16....

The Blackfeet Nation in Montana is preparing to feed the people during the government shutdown by distributing buffalo meat and organizing an elk hunt. In Rapid City, South Dakota, Lakota are organizing mutual aid. In North Dakota, the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Nation is keeping all its food programs going, with hot meals and bagged lunches, and making sure children, elderly and college students don't go hungry. On the west coast, an Indigenous restaurant owned by Crystal Wahpepah, Kickapoo, i...

The California Faculty Association on October 10 filed a Petition for Writ of Mandate and Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief against the Board of Trustees of California State University in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The case seeks a court order prohibiting CSU administrators from disclosing CFA members’ personal information in response to federal subpoenas without first providing notice to affected employees and an opportunity for them to object....