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Time To Shut It Down! A Day Of Action & ILWU Juneteenth At Port Of Oakland 
The ILWU initiated Committee Against Police Terror and Systemic. Racism rallied at the Port of Oakland on Juneteenth which is June 19, 2020. At the Port a rally was held before the march....
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2020 1:56PM
Shut The World Down! Boots Riley At 2020 Juneteenth At Oakland Oscar Grant Plaza 
Boots Riley spoke on the ILWU Juneteenth Stop Work meeting and rally at Oscar Grant Plaza on 6/19/29....
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:59PM
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic Oakland McDonald employees take legal action 
Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic:...
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2020 3:24AM
ILWU Work Action On W.C. Ports On Juneteenth STOP Police Terror & Systemic Racism 
The ILWU on the West Coast will shut down all ports on Juneteenth June 19, 2020 to stop police terror and systemic racism....
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:34AM
"I Can't Breath" ILWU 10 & 34 Speak Out About Lynching of George Floyd & Action 
ILWU 10 president Trent Willis & ILWU 34 president Keith Shanklin talk about the murder of George Floyd and the systemic racist attacks on longshore workers and their families. They also discuss the shutdown of West Coast docks on Juneteenth June 19th to commemorate the emancipation of Blacks and the fight today....
Posted: Tue Jun 9, 2020 9:32AM
AFA-CWA Pres Sara Nelson Likes ILWU Action On June 9th To Act In Memorial To George Floyd 
ILWU Local 10, 34 and all west coast locals will be stopping work on June 9,2020 to remember George Floyd who was murdered by the police in Minneapolis. Also there will be a West Coast shutdown of all Ports on Juneteenth June 19, 2020. CWA AFA President Sara Nelson supported the action...
Posted: Mon Jun 8, 2020 2:35PM
Budget Time: Transfer Police Budget to Services for the Workingclass On June 7, 2020, around 3 p.m., a march of a few thousand young people was seen on Bay Street, coming from the Marina, turning onto Columbus and filled the entire length of Columbus to Stockton, where it turned for a block to Vallejo, the heart of the working class Chinese immigrant community, where they stood and chanted "Black Lives Matter" outside a police station....
Posted: Sun Jun 7, 2020 5:38PM
Black Lives Matter! Labor Rally & March In SF 
Hundreds of Northern California trade unionists marched and rallied in San Francisco Hunters Point Bay View district to protest the murder of George Floyd and many other Black workers and youth. Some community members also spoke out about the murders....
Posted: Sat Jun 6, 2020 7:13PM
Health Over Profits!" Where The Hell Is OSHA At? Oakland Speak-out For Health Safety & 
Trade unionists and workers spoke out about the failure of Cal-OSHA to defend health and safety on the job. Cal-OSHA because of Governor Newsom and the California legislature has less than 200 OSHA inspectors and there are no physical inspections. Workers also talked about how they are retaliated against for making health and safety complaints....
Posted: Tue Jun 2, 2020 2:24PM
Oakland From Covid-19 To Cops: We Can’t Breathe Caravan 
Rally at the California State Building to demand that Cal-OSHA enforce the health and safety laws...
Posted: Mon Jun 1, 2020 10:19PM
LYFT/UBER - AB5 Must Stand! Stop Exploitation & Theft Of Drivers, Workers 
Lyft Headquarters
185 Berry St, Suite 5000,
San Francisco, CA 94107,...
Event Date: Mon Jun 1, 2020 9:30AM
Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 9:00PM
Transit Workers & The Fight Against Covid with TWU 250a President Roger Marenco 
Roger Marenco, president of SF TWU 250a talks about the battle to defend members against Covid and how they were forced to take action on their own initiative to protect their health and safety. He also discussed the workplace bullying by management against members and the failure of Cal-OSHA to even visit the transit operation to check if workers and the public were being protected....
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 6:52PM
CalOsha Do Your Job - Lives Over Corporate Greed-Essential Workers Are Not Expendable 
LCLAA Sacramento will be protesting the lack of protection by Cal-OSHA and demand that 1,000 new inspectors for inspection of California workplaces....
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 11:46AM
Stanford Health Care is Cutting Costs on the Backs of Workers 
A demonstration in Palo Alto drew dozens to protest Stanford Health Care's heartless cost cutting move. Protestors admirably maintained required physical distance and wore masks....
Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 4:54AM
SF SEIU 1021 PPE, Secret Top Down Concession Bargaining, Outsourcing & Privatization 
SEIU 1021 union activists and leaders speak out about the distribution of PPE masks by the local, top down concession bargaining and the outsourcing and privatization of public services to non-profits done secretly from the membership....
Posted: Mon May 18, 2020 5:29PM
Jail Tesla Billionaire Elon Musk & Defend Health & Safety: Workers Speak Out At Tesla 
Workers spoke out against the bullying and intimidation of billionaire Elon Musk who has started his Tesla factory violating a shelter in place law. He challenged the Fremont police and Governor Newsom to arrest him but they are allowing him to open without any CA-OSHA inspections. Newsom has continued the destruction of CA-OSHA and there are less than 200 inspectors for the 18 million workers in California and only 1 doctor and 1 nurse at CA. OSHA....
Posted: Sat May 16, 2020 10:46PM
Protest To Stop Destruction of CCSF Through Elimination of ESL, Shuttering of Campuses 
Rallies, protests and a car caravan was held in San Francisco to oppose the destruction of CCSF ESL program with the layoff of faculty and the closure of the Ft. Mason campus as well as other campuses. The management of CCSF with the Board of Trustees are shuttering campuses and want to sell off land to developers including at the Ocean campus and the Balboa reservoir which they support privatizing. The destruction of the college also comes after the people of San Francisco passed an $845 mil...
Posted: Sat May 16, 2020 9:38AM
"Blood Money & Murder On The Job" Amazon 2020 On May Day 
New York MTA TWU 100 steward John Ferretti and Amazon worker Chris Smalls are interviewed about May Day and why they were protesting at the Amazon JFK8 Staten Island warehouse....
Posted: Tue May 5, 2020 8:27PM
May Day Caravan in Santa Cruz 
#COLA4ALL activists in Santa Cruz organized a May Day Caravan to support those "striking and fighting for their right to live in this city". Beginning on the UC Santa Cruz campus to support the striking COLA graduate students, the caravan traveled downtown to the Santa Cruz Main Jail, and then on to support Food Not Bombs at Front and Laurel Streets. (Photos taken downtown by Keith McHenry of Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs.)...
Posted: Sat May 2, 2020 5:27PM
BA ILWU Shutdown On 2020 May Day With Rally/Caravan: An Injury To One Is An Injury To All! 
The ILWU Local 10 and 34 rallied at SSA in the Port of Oakland with other unionists and community people to commemorate May Day and to demand PPE, and end to evictions, full unionization....
Posted: Fri May 1, 2020 8:09PM