Pulaski: It’s a travesty that GOP members of Congress chose to mortgage California’s future to provide a huge gift to the big corporations and wealthy out-of-state donors who fund their campaigns.
Read MoreTeamsters Joint Council 7 Organizes Over 5,000 Workers in 2017
In the past year, Teamsters Joint Council 7 has organized and lifted standards for workers at a rapid pace, welcoming 5,000 new members to the union. Joint Council 7 represents 23 local unions and serves members in Northern California, the Central Valley and Northern Nevada.
Read MoreUnion-Made Holiday Gift Ideas
It’s not too late yet to find that perfect holiday gift that carries a union label. Below is a wide range of gift possibilities, from clothes to games to sports equipment and more, made by union-members across the country.
Read MoreCafeteria Workers at Yahoo Unionize, Join Workers’ Movement for Equality in the Tech Industry
This week, 118 food service workers at Yahoo won union representation at its headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. The food service workers, who are employed by Yahoo’s contractor, Bon Appetit, are calling for respect and dignity, affordable health care, and increased wages to compete with increasing rents in the Bay Area.
Read MoreGOP Tax Bill’s Medicare Cuts Are a Cruel Gut Punch to California Seniors, Families
We could write volumes about all the things to hate in the GOP tax bills. From ending a deduction to teachers who spend money on schools supplies, to reducing the mortgage interest deduction that many families rely upon to its huge giveaways for big corporations that they won’t use to create jobs, it’s clear that the GOP expects working people to give the wealthy few a major tax break at our expense.
Read MoreOff-Duty Lifeguards Save Stranded Couple in California
While the two young members take pride in saving the couple, they don’t see themselves as heroes.
Read MoreCalifornia Labor Stands with Women Workers
Sexual harassment is not about sex, it’s about power. The flood of recent revelations underscores the pervasiveness-across industries, regions, and political parties-of men exercising that power not only to abuse women but also to silence them.
Read MoreCalifornia Unions Stand Together to Honor Our Nation’s Veterans
Most of us will never have to stand patrol for hours in blistering desert sun and blinding sandstorms. Most of us will never know the burden of marching into the face of danger every day.
Read MoreThe Republican Tax Bill is a Job Killer
Community joins workers to protest unjust firings at Tesla
Tesla’s recent firing spree raises more serious questions about the company’s treatment of its workers. Today at the Tesla plant in Fremont, workers, elected officials, members of community groups and many more rallied inside the showroom of the facility to ask the company to reinstate every worker who was fired without just cause in the recent round of terminations.
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