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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 PDT
Rally at the California State Building to demand that Cal-OSHA enforce the health and safety laws...
Posted: Mon, Jun 1, 2020 10:19pm PDT
Lyft Headquarters
185 Berry St, Suite 5000,
San Francisco, CA 94107,...
Event Date: Mon, Jun 1, 2020 9:30am PDT
Posted: Sat, May 30, 2020 9:00pm PDT
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 PDT
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 PDT
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 PDT
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 PDT
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 PDT
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 PDT
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 PDT
#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 PDT
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 PDT
Pacifica COVID-19 Taskforce is hosting May Day with programing from throughout the world. Live streaming from South Africa, Korea, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and other countries....
Posted: Thu, Apr 30, 2020 9:11pm PDT
Watsonville Plaza
350 Main St, Watsonville...
Event Date: Fri, May 1, 2020 11:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 30, 2020 10:27am PDT
How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Affecting Small Businesses in the Restaurant Industry in Lake County, California...
Posted: Wed, Apr 29, 2020 8:51pm PDT
Oakes College, UC Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Fri, May 1, 2020 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 29, 2020 4:53pm PDT
Online (details are below)...
Event Date: Fri, May 1, 2020 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Apr 26, 2020 12:54pm PDT
San Francisco NNU-CNA nurses protested at Sutter CPMC Van Ness hospital campus against re-using masks and the lack of proper staffing. The privately run Sutter gives executives millions but refuses to have new masks and proper staffing...
Posted: Fri, Apr 24, 2020 7:14pm PDT
Meet up location, route and details coming soon!...
Event Date: Fri, May 1, 2020 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 24, 2020 1:41pm PDT
Join the rent strike movement in sending Governor Newsom a #30DayNotice...
Posted: Fri, Apr 24, 2020 1:33pm PDT


















