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REI Workers in Santa Cruz Vote to Unionize
On April 18, workers at the REI store in Santa Cruz voted 32-12 in favor of forming a union. The workers filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on March 14, at which time they announced their intent to join United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) Local 5. The Santa Cruz REI store is the second REI location in the Bay Area to unionize, and the tenth nationwide. REI Workers in Santa Cruz say they are unionizing for "fair pay, sustainable schedul...
Posted: Fri, Apr 19, 2024 12:55pm PDT
Occupy Mill Street
Walking only section of Mill street in Grass Valley...
Event Date: Wed, May 1, 2024 9:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 17, 2024 10:16pm PDT
Earthquakes, Robo-Taxis and Land Lines, a Looming Disaster
Earthquake preparedness, along with robotaxis and a proposal by AT&T now before the CPUC (California Public Utility Commission) calling for the company’s release from providing landline phone service to four million customers across the state, were the interrelated topics of discussion in calling for “people before profits.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 16, 2024 7:33pm PDT
Workers Demand General Strike for Palestine & Against Genocide in Gaza at SFLC Meeting
Workers called on the San Francisco Labor Council to support a general strike for Palestine and against the genocide in Gaza. The SFLC leadership tried to lock the door to the meeting. They also have prevented any resolution on Palestine from coming up at their meetings....
Posted: Sun, Apr 14, 2024 11:07am PDT
May Day General Strike to Stop Genocide & Rally at Harry Bridges Plaza
Harry Bridges Plaza
In Front Of Ferry Building...
Event Date: Wed, May 1, 2024 12:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 5, 2024 10:22pm PDT
Healthcare Workers 4 Palestine UCSF Parnassus Action on Palestine Children's Day
UCSF Parnassus healthcare workers had vigil on Palestine Children's Day April 5, 2024 to remember the children and protest the mass genocide and murder of the US supported Israeli apartheid regime....
Posted: Fri, Apr 5, 2024 9:57pm PDT
International Palestinian Children’s Day– Not A Celebration
– In recognition of International Palestinian Children’s Day, healthcare workers along with human rights activists and others held a vigil today outside of the prestigious UCSF Parnassus medical school hospital campus library mourning the killing of more than 32,000 Palestinians in Gaza, of which 70 percent are women and children.
The vigil organized by Healthcare Workers 4 Palestine and the UPTE CWA 9119 union, who are employed at UCSF, also recognized the 72,000 wounded thus far “…of who...
Posted: Fri, Apr 5, 2024 5:38pm PDT
Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Toxic Pesticide Approvals Near Public Schools in Monterey County
Regulators are failing to protect children from repeat exposure to the most dangerous pesticides...
Posted: Fri, Apr 5, 2024 9:40am PDT
UBER Drivers Protest Slave Labor Conditions at UBER HQ in San Francisco-STOP Lying!
Over 50 UBER drivers rallied at the world headquarters of UBER to demand living wages and against the fraud and attacks on workers. They also protested the role of governor Gavin Newsom and San Francisco mayor London Breed who they said are shills for the tech billionaires....
Posted: Tue, Apr 2, 2024 3:00pm PDT
Creative Growth Workers Unionize, Announce Rally
ACTION ALERT: Solidarity Rally on Saturday, April 6, 12pm outside SFMOMA (151 3rd Street) coinciding with the public opening of "Creative Growth: The House that Art Built."...
Posted: Tue, Apr 2, 2024 7:30am PDT
Drivers Are No Fools: Rideshare Drivers Rally for Fair Treatment and Livelihoods
Rideshare drivers from Uber and Lyft are taking a stand. On Monday, April 1, 2024, April Fools Day - they will stage a series of events to address critical issues affecting their work and livelihoods. Declaring loudly "Drivers Are No Fools!"...
Posted: Sun, Mar 31, 2024 2:53am PDT
Sexually abused women work for slave wages at FCI, Dublin a.k.a. the “Rape Club”
Famed Attorney Tony Serra Shortly After His Release From Prison In 2007. Lydia Gans Photo....
Posted: Sun, Mar 31, 2024 1:08am PDT
On Women's Day 2024 Global Action to Defend Palestinian Women Journalists in SF
On International Women's Day a solidarity rally was held for Palestinian Gaza women journalists who have been attacked and murdered. Sixteen have been killed in Gaza and there are 124 journalists who have lost their lives...
Posted: Mon, Mar 11, 2024 4:36pm PDT
Lives Over Profits! At CPUC, Shut Waymo Robo Taxis & Defend Landlines From AT&T Closures
A press conference and rally took place in front of the CPUC which has allowed Google's owned Waymo robo taxis to expand to the peninsula and Los Angeles and also the threatened shutdown of 4 million land lines throughout California to increase the profits of AT&T. Speaker talked about the long going corruption of the CPUC and the appointees of Governor Gavin Newsom who represents the tech billionaires and the owners of PG&E....
Posted: Thu, Mar 7, 2024 6:06pm PST
Breed "Sucking Up To SEIU" While Attacking SF City Workers With 2% Wages & Privatization
San Francisco Mayor London Breed was accused by Gavin Newsom of "sucking up to the SEIU" by wearing a purple dress. At the same time she is attacking City workers by only offering 2% which amounts to a wage cut and also continuing to outsource City jobs to non-profits. There is also a massive corruption crisis in the City....
Posted: Tue, Mar 5, 2024 10:43pm PST
Newsom's Prop 1 Press Conference Disrupted in SF: No Privatization of Mental Health
At a press conference by Governor Gavin Newsom to support California proposition 1, which will privatize mental health services and take away rights of mentally disabled, protesters spoke out disrupting the press conference. The anti-labor ballot initiative is supported by the leadership of SEIU2015, SEIU 1021, UBC and other unions despite the fact it will destroy public jobs....
Posted: Mon, Mar 4, 2024 3:38pm PST
At Palestine Rally Labor Speakers Demand an End To Genocide & Nurse Calls for Labor Action
At a rally for Palestine in SF labor speakers spoke and a nurse called for labor action to stop the genocide....
Posted: Mon, Mar 4, 2024 8:31am PST
Third World Women Resist for International Women’s Day
San Francisco Civic Center...
Event Date: Fri, Mar 8, 2024 1:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Mar 3, 2024 4:29pm PST
Links Between Zionism, Histadrut, South Africa, CIA & the AFL-CIO at BA Lab for Palestine
At a Labor For Palestine conference in Oakland, a panel was held on the links between Zionism, Histadrut, South Africa, CIA & The AFL-CIO...
Posted: Fri, Mar 1, 2024 8:39am PST
Despite Zionists Shutdown of School, BA Labor Conf for Palestine with Hundreds Goes On (video/mp4 3.9MB)
Despite the action of East Bay Zionists to shutdown a school where an education conference on Palestine and labor was being held, the participants moved the conference to the front of the school and parking lot and went ahead with the meeting....
Posted: Wed, Feb 28, 2024 9:27am PST