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UC Santa Cruz Students Move Encampment to Support UAW Strike Picket Line
On May 20, UAW 4811 kicked off its Unfair Labor Practices strike on the UC Santa Cruz campus. Shortly after the strike commenced, students camping at Quarry Plaza packed up equipment from the Gaza Solidarity encampment, which was established by UC Santa Cruz Students for Justice in Palestine on May 1, and then marched to the base of campus for UAW's noon rally. A new encampment was established next to the Barn Theater....
Posted: Tue, May 21, 2024 9:11am PDT
Anti Chevron Day Event Held in Richmond
Environmentalists, unions, poets, musicians and genocide resisters call out Chevron's crimes...
Posted: Mon, May 20, 2024 1:44pm PDT
REI Union Chicago Workers Walk Out on ULP Strike
REI UNION CHICAGO WORKERS WALK OUT ON ULP STRIKE & RALLY WITH LABOR GROUPS & CO-OP MEMBERS OUTSIDE LINCOLN PARK STORE DEMANDING THAT REI REACH A UNION CONTRACT BY END OF 2024 AMID COMPANY’S LARGEST ANNUAL SALE...
Posted: Sat, May 18, 2024 6:20pm PDT
AFSCME 3299: Urgent Call to Action!
Picket Locations: https://bit.ly/4dHtnB8...
Event Date: Wed, May 22, 2024 6:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, May 18, 2024 5:49pm PDT
Forward to the 1930s?
A look back makes the outlook easier: A speculative boom in 1929 leads to a stock market crash and recession, the budget deficit increases, the austerity policies drive the economy into a depression. Tensions within and between countries increase, scapegoats are sought, anti-Semitism and protectionism are spreading....
Posted: Thu, May 16, 2024 5:15pm PDT
CFA Members File Unfair Practice Charge Over Cal Poly Humboldt’s Campus Closure
May 9, 2024 - This week, CFA members filed an Unfair Practice Charge with California’s Public Employer Employee Relations Board (PERB) over Cal Poly Humboldt administration’s decision to close the campus for the remainder of the spring semester. Management took the extraordinary step of closing down the campus last month in response to students protesting the war in Gaza when other campuses around the country have remained open despite fairly large actions and police responses. At Cal Poly Hu...
Posted: Wed, May 15, 2024 6:14am PDT
CUCFA Statement On Campus Protests
May 7, 2024 - The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) denounces the growing number of attempts to intimidate, repress, and criminalize campus protests of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza that is supported economically and politically by the United States....
Posted: Tue, May 14, 2024 11:41pm PDT
Reel Work Film Festival - A Thousand Pines
Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sat, May 18, 2024 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, May 11, 2024 1:53pm PDT
Workers & Students Unite and Fight for Palestine
Science and Engineering Library, UC Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Mon, May 13, 2024 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 10, 2024 7:04pm PDT
Aramark at Yosemite Receives Second Marginal AOR in a row. Triggers contract cancelation.
NPS says that Aramark has "Created An Unacceptable Risk of Damage to Park Resources."...
Posted: Thu, May 9, 2024 12:36pm PDT
UAWC in Palestine Letter to Student and Youth Movements
30 April 2024...
Posted: Wed, May 8, 2024 11:23pm PDT
Food Empowerment Project Embraces Shared Leadership to Advance Justice and Equality (video/mp4 221.5MB)
The new collective organizational model streamlines communication, nurtures creativity and drives more impactful initiatives...
Posted: Tue, May 7, 2024 8:18am PDT
Carpenters Union Opposes Contractor Bidding on UC Santa Cruz Housing Project
On May 3, members of Carpenters Union Local 505 distributed information at the base of the UC Santa Cruz campus about W.E. O’Neil Construction Co., which is bidding on the 17-acre Family Student Housing development proposal slated for the East Meadow. The union is currently appealing UC Santa Cruz’s refusal to disqualify W.E. O’Neil for the construction project, claiming the company falsified the bid. “W.E. O’Neil attempted to hide the fact that a worker was killed by electrocution on a recen...
Posted: Mon, May 6, 2024 8:09pm PDT
May Day March for Immigrants' Rights in Fresno
There was a march May Day through downtown Fresno, calling for immigrants' rights....
Posted: Sat, May 4, 2024 9:25pm PDT
W.E. O’Neil Construction Co. Unqualified to Bid on U.C. Santa Cruz Student Housing Project
W.E. O’Neil Construction Co. Unqualified to Bid on U.C. Santa Cruz Student Housing Project, Carpenters Union Alleges
University of California should reject W.E. O’Neil bid based on new evidence. Carpenters Local Union 505 Says Construction Company Falsified State Bid...
Posted: Fri, May 3, 2024 3:00pm PDT
SF Workers Rally for a General Strike for Palestine & Labor Party on May Day 2024
A May Day rally was held at Harry Bridges Plaza in San Francisco and ILWU 10 longshore workers, healthcare workers, non-profit workers and students spoke out about the struggles of working people and the link with the struggle of Palestinian workers and people....
Posted: Thu, May 2, 2024 6:59pm PDT
Port Closure Prompts Palestine Support Rally at BART Station
A quick victory for Bay Area resistance to Israeli war crimes...
Posted: Thu, May 2, 2024 10:30am PDT
Workers Speak Out in SF Mission on May Day 2024 & Bring Solidarity with Palestine
Workers rallied in the Mission district in San Francisco to commemorate May Day 2024 and spoke out about the attacks on workers in the US and Palestine....
Posted: Thu, May 2, 2024 5:59am PDT
On May Day, UCSC Students Establish Gaza Solidarity Encampment
Today, students at UC Santa Cruz marched for International Workers' Day and established a Gaza solidarity encampment at Quarry Plaza....
Posted: Wed, May 1, 2024 7:06pm PDT
EVENT CANCELED: DSA Santa Cruz May Day Beach Bonfire
Seabright Beach, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Wed, May 1, 2024 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, May 1, 2024 5:13am PDT