@sdiclaborcouncil
San Diego & Imperial Counties affiliate of the nat'l AFL-CIO, over 120 unions of more than 200,000 union workers and union families. We come together to strengthen solidarity, grow our union movement, and build local governing power with our communities.
The SAVE America Act is a voter suppression scam. It would take away the rights of working people to make their voices heard at the ballot box.
The Senate must reject this bill.
A farm worker in a lemon orchard where you could see the buckets of lemons she's harvesting
"Alicia" shared this pic from Kern County. "The lemon orchard is in bad shape, with no lemons on the trees. They still only pay us $35 per 900 lb box for juice lemons. It takes us 3-4 hours to pick that box. It's wrong. We should at least be guaranteed minimum wage." #WeFeedYou
Truly awful behavior by @nytimes.com management. We encourage all of you to sign the petition actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
We call on the AMPTP to negotiate a fair contract and we call on all workers to prepare to stand in solidarity with WGA members as they fight for a fair deal.
The last WGA contract fight in 2023 ended after the second-longest strike in the union's history. One of the key fights was protecting screenwriters from being replaced by AI—a fight many workers are currently facing in our own workplaces.
The disruption is estimated to have cost the producers roughly $500 million—or around $1.38 billion adjusted for inflation.
As we look back on the 1988 strike, we stand in solidarity with our WGA siblings who are in negotiations now with the AMPTP.
And the strike secured another major victory. WGA, together with the Directors Guild of America and @sagaftra.org, won an AMPTP-funded audit program that gave the three guilds oversight to ensure residuals were paid fully and fairly.
After multiple rounds of negotiations failed, the two sides struck a deal and the strike ended on August 7. While producers got concessions on residuals for some shows, writers won increased residuals for shows syndicated to cable and more. The writers also won creative control for original scripts.
while writers were demanding more creative control over their own original screenplays and TV movie scripts. For months, writers stayed on the picket lines while the AMPTP refused to bargain in good faith.
The previous deal expired on February 29. On March first, with no deal in hand, guild members authorized a strike with 96% voting to support. Studios, represented at the bargaining table by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), demanded cuts to writers' residual payments,
Image of writers on the picket line in 1988 with signs reading "writers guild on strike!" Top text reads "celebrating union history. Writers Guild of America Strike, March 7-August 7, 1988"
On March 7, 1988, 9,000 film and TV writers walked out of writers rooms and onto picket lines for what would become the longest writers strike in history (so far). The strike involved both the @wgaeast.bsky.social and the @wgawest.bsky.social, and lasted 153 days. 🧵 #unionhistory #1u #solidarity
⏰Tonight (Wednesday, March 4). There's still time to sign up! labornotes.org/events/2026/...
The UAW stands with all workers in our fights to take on the billionaire and corporate classes.
Thank you! ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏻
CSEA Classifieds keep schools clean, feed/transport students, teach, & keep schools running. They're already understaffed, yet SD Unified is voting on layoffs. Show up in blue!
SAVE YOUR CLASSIFIEDS!
Rally @ the San Diego Unified School Board
TUESDAY, March 3 @ 5 pm
4100 Normal St, San Diego 92103
CSEA Classifieds keep schools clean, feed/transport students, teach, & keep schools running. They're already understaffed, yet SD Unified is voting on layoffs. Show up in blue!
SAVE YOUR CLASSIFIEDS!
Rally @ the San Diego Unified School Board
TUESDAY, March 3 @ 5 pm
4100 Normal St, San Diego 92103
For the first time ever, workers at a Home Depot company have unionized.
Drivers who deliver building materials for Home Depot’s Temco subsidiary have voted to join the Teamsters.
They did so despite a vicious anti-union campaign from Home Depot and Temco.
atlantaciviccircle.org/2026/02/25/t...
It’s National Women in Construction Week!
America’s unions celebrate the women working in the construction trades, their skills, their solidarity and the leadership they bring to the jobsite as they build a bright future for all women in their industry.
When people come together to fight injustice, we can make real impacts.
Deleting the Starbucks app off your phone & getting 5 friends to do the same until baristas win a fair contract is one way you can directly help move the needle towards a better future for working people!
bit.ly/deletetheapp
"Juan" is harvesting mandarins in CAs Central Valley. He is paid $55 per 1,000lb crate. He hustles to manage to pick 2 crates in about 7 hours. He is worried that his job is temporary, as he has to feed his family every day. #WeFeedYou
🚨Tomorrow is the day! The Empty Homes Tax goes before the Special Rules Committee — and your voice matters.
Homes should be for people.
Show up. Speak out. Stand with families fighting to stay in the city they love.
Learn more:
mysandiego.info/home
Workers are at the side of a field waiting to start picking oranges. The supervisor told them to be there at 10am, but they didn't start work till 11am as there was a wet fog and the packing plant wanted the oranges to be dry. They weren't paid for the hour of waiting. #WeFeedYou
We just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Get GeoGroup (private prisons + ICE prisons) Out of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce!
Send one here >>> actionnetwork.org/letters/get-...
A farm worker harvesting strawberries
"Mario" shares, "I'm a strawberry picker. I wake up at 4:30 in the morning to work for 4 to 5 hours in this cold damp weather. I end up earning $60 to $80. I do it with great pride. Farm workers are essential. We put food on America's tables." #WeFeedYou
Act 10 is a clear reminder of what happens when elected officials represent bosses instead of workers. It's why our unions work so hard to elect allies and ensure that we can move our cause forward, instead of being dragged backwards by "leaders" who are really bought and paid for by the bosses.
They organized to recall legislators who had voted for Act 10, and fought Scott Walker and his corporate backers at the ballot box and in the courts. Finally, in December 2024, a Wisconsin judge ruled Act 10 unconstitutional, restoring collective bargaining rights to all WI public sector workers.
But Scott Walker's big money backers, especially the Koch Brothers, kept Republicans in line. On March 10, Act 10 passed.
Act 10 was devastating for all of organized labor and the working class in Wisconsin. But Wisconsin's working people never gave up.
On Feb. 15, tens of thousands of workers and allies descended on the state Capitol in Madison. The protests grew daily. On Feb. 20, teachers, bus drivers, social workers, sanitation workers, janitors and workers from dozens of professions surrounded the Capitol and filled the rotunda in protest.
Then they decided to balance the budget on the backs of workers.
Gov. Scott Walker introduced Act 10, which stripped nearly all public workers of the right to negotiate healthcare or pensions, limited raises, and ended dues collection.
Wisconsin's public worker movement had made huge strides over the years, and Republicans were determined to set working people back.
When Republicans took over the state house in 2011, the first thing they did was hand out $67 million in business tax breaks.
