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A Minimum Wage/Fair Scheduling ordinance that will raise Oakland’s minimum wage to $14/hr in 2016 and $20/hr by 2020, as well as implement fair scheduling similar to San Francisco’s recent ordinance and mandate enforcement of both....

(SACRAMENTO, MARCH 24, 2016) – Community activists and workers held protests outside two Chipotle restaurants today to inform customers about food safety problems and other violations at Taylor Farms in Tracy, Calif., which supplies tomatoes to Chipotle franchises in the region. As the fast-casual Mexican food chain has been roiled by numerous food poisoning outbreaks, protesters held signs and passed out leaflets telling customers in Sacramento and Manteca, Calif. that Chipotle’s food safety...

City Hall Steps 14th & Broadway, Oakland, CA...

UC Berkeley Sproul Plaza, Berkeley, California 94720...

Hundreds of UAL CWA-AFA flight attendants and IBT mechanics marched and protested the continued concession demands by management in contract negotiations. Despite having profits of over .5 billion last year the UAL management continues to push even further take-aways. This was held on March 17, 2016...

Members in California SEIU Local 1021 with over 50,000 members charged that the 2016 election was rigged and that there should be a new election. The company that run it Global Election Services and one of the owners John Scott Matthews had computers that broke down and software that did not work. They also were unable to give accurate information about where the votes came from even days after the election. The members also charged that Roxanne Sanchez who is the president and an internatio...

On March 10, 2016, a bourgeois Babbitt San Francisco suburban federal jury declared 4 San Francisco police not guilty of using excessive force in the civil trial of Alex Nieto v. the City of San Francisco despite the fact that Alex Nieto was killed by 15 of the 59 shots the cops shot at him, some in the back, with one cop reloading and continuing with the execution, and the strongest prosecution witness, an African-American jogger, verifying that Nieto's hands were in his pockets, where 1 bon...

Community members in support of the farmworkers who grow Driscoll's strawberries organized an informational picket outside of Whole Food Markets in Santa Cruz on February 26. Demonstrators are calling for the boycott of Driscoll's Berries and Sakuma Bros. Berries, as well as Häagen-Dazs brand ice cream....

“This is one of the cultural and intellectual hubs of the campus, and it’s impossible to quantify what the university would be losing by closing this space.” – Scott Ferreter of Sacramento...

Supporters of justice for Alex Nieto and others who have been murdered by San Francisco police rallied and spoke at the San Francisco Federal Building on March 1, 2016 where a trial was to start on the case of the death of Alex Nieto...