Happy Kwanzaa to all those who celebrate!

Merry Christmas from IFPTE Local 21!

Happy Holidays from IFPTE Local 21! 💙

Today the California Labor Movement came together to show strong solidarity with the striking workers of @sbworkersunited.org! #NoContractNoCoffee

Hayward City Council is refusing to take layoffs off the table— our library services and our animal shelter are on the line. Our city workers are already stretched thin after millions in service cuts and unfilled positions. (1/2)

Federal cuts threaten Contra Costa County's emergency rooms, health services, and other safety net programs. The County is now projecting an out-year loss of $330 million or more annually. Our community came together this morning to call on the Contra Costa County BOS to save our healthcare! 🩺 ✊

To all who celebrate: Happy Hanukkah. —— We are saddened to learn of the recent terrorist attack in Australia targeting a Jewish celebration and condemn this act of violence and hatred. Our hearts are with the victims, their families, and the Jewish community. 🕯️

BREAKING: On Thursday, December 11, 2025 after three days of voting, SEIU 1021, IFPTE 21, and IUOE 39 members in Solano County overwhelmingly passed a strike authorization vote by 98%. It’s time for a fair contract now!

“San Franciscans will not sit back while Donald Trump attacks our most vulnerable neighbors.” — Assemblymember Matt Haney (@matthaneysf.bsky.social)

IFPTE Local 21 members are on sympathy STRIKE for the schools our students deserve! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ We’re proud to join our union siblings on the UTR and Teamsters 856 strike lines! Public school employee working conditions are student learning conditions. Solidarity forever! 💙✊ 📸: Brooke Anderson

We should note that @ifpte21.bsky.social has also joined the UTR-IBT856 strike!

TODAY: we’re on the strike lines! IFPTE Local 21 is on sympathy strike with UTR and Teamsters 856 for the schools our students deserve! Educators are on strike to protect the success and well-being of every student across West Contra Costa. When we fight, we win! 🪧

We stand in solidarity with the members of United Teachers of Richmond and Teamsters 856 on strike today! Tomorrow, IFPTE Local 21 joins you on the line. ✊ #1u 📷 Photos by Brooke Anderson

This Christmas, give DOGE Bros the gift of coal. Boycott Airbnb! www.boycott-airbnb.org

In coalition w/ our union siblings in SEIU 1021, we stand united around our demands for a fair and balanced budget. The City has the funds to keep #Hayward running and to keep the services the residents deserve.  The City should use Measure C funds as intended: to protect & sustain vital services!

Today, I joined @ifpte21.bsky.social and our @sfpublicworks.bsky.social workers to recognize their work that keeps our streets safe and clean. From supporting cleanliness enforcement to tackle open air drug markets to graffiti cleanup, Public Works employees are our unseen heroes.

IFPTE Local 21 stands in solidarity with the custodians, food service workers, patient care assistants, hospital technicians, and our @afscme.bsky.social Local 3299 siblings who keep the UC system running. FAIR CONTRACT NOW! ✊🪧

Every booking you make with Airbnb takes housing off the market and helps support the extreme agenda of the administration in Washington, D.C.

Solano County workers are getting STRIKE-READY!⚡️ Last night, over 500 Solano County workers attended Strike School to learn what it means to strike, the strategies to win, and the laws that protect their right to strike. We refuse to let our families’ healthcare be attacked! 🪧 #SolanoForAll

Union-busting has got to go! Solidarity with Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas at corporate stores across the country as they fight for a fair contract ✊

Hear from San Franciscans why they're boycotting Airbnb. Learn more and join the growing movement 👉 www.boycott-airbnb.org

Congratulations to Sarah Perez, our San Francisco Vice President, on being sworn in as a delegate to the SF Labor Council last night! We’re going to keep our labor movement strong so we can stand up against the Trump Administration’s attacks on our city.

As part of their attack on public services, the Trump Administration has reduced the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) workforce by roughly 30,000 positions. Cuts to VA workers mean cuts to healthcare for millions of veterans.

Today we picketed outside the Solano County Health & Social Services building. Instead of bad-faith bargaining, Solano County should invest in recruiting & retaining the experienced workers who provide vital county services. We're ready to strike if we need to to keep our public services strong.

All across the Bay Area, IFPTE Local 21 members say: “YES ON 50!” Today, we’re going door to door 🚪and canvassing our neighbors to make sure that we all do our collective part to save democracy in California! #GOTV

This is it. Election Day. Democracy itself is on the line here in California. You have a chance to help save it. Vote #YesOnProp50 and get your ballot turned in ASAP!

Election Day is TODAY! #VOTE! 🗳️ With federal cuts putting our local public services at risk, it’s essential for all of us to vote YES on CA #Prop50. ✅ Our democracy depends on it! In Santa Clara County, we’re voting YES on #MeasureA to save our local hospitals. ✅ Our community depends on it!

On the final day of #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth, we share the history of Isang Bagsak, otherwise known as the Unity Clap. IFPTE Local 21 is proud to carry this legacy forward. When one of us rises, we all rise! Voice-over performed by IFPTE Local 21 member JR Santos.

In Solano County, our union coalition’s contracts have officially expired. It is egregious that the County is using rising healthcare costs as leverage against dedicated employees and their families who call Solano County home.

One drop alone 💧 an ocean together! 🌊 Valley Water employees are advocating for a fair contract that invests in the essential work we do to improve South Bay residents’ access to clean and safe water.

Today we honor #LarryItliong, a fearless Filipino American labor leader whose vision and courage helped ignite the farmworker movement. His story reminds us of what is possible when communities come together for fairness and dignity on the job.

📰 ICYMI: Solano County workers’ unions IFPTE Local 21, SEIU 1021, and IUOE - Stationary Engineers Local 39 held an informational picket over the lunch hour on Tuesday. More than 100 workers chanted and held signs, gearing up for a possible strike, as contracts expire 🚨TOMORROW, October 25, 2025.🚨

Over 3.4 million Californians have already cast their Prop 50 ballots. Make sure to vote YES on Prop 50 TODAY! Here's what you need to know ⬇️ #YesOnProp50

If the federal government wants to help San Francisco, IFPTE Local 21 President Bianca Polovina said: “Stop cutting public services...That’s the way the federal government can help us, not send an invasion into the San Francisco Bay Area.” 48hills.org/2025/10/labo...

Hands off the Bay! No ICE. No troops. No Trump.

Today we gathered on the steps of SF City Hall in solidarity with our union siblings, community members, and elected officials to spread power—not panic. We can protect each other in our workplaces and in our community.

“Too often we see millions of dollars wasted on private contracts that are unnecessary or overpriced,” said Sarah Perez, Local 21’s vice president, in a statement. “We’re alarmed and disturbed that the city had no intention to see if our existing staff could perform this work."

TODAY: As worker contracts in Solano County near expiration this month, hundreds of County workers in our #SolanoForAll union coalition called for an urgent informational picket in response to the Solano County Administration stalling on making progress at the bargaining table. ✊🪧 (1/2)

America’s unions were out in force this weekend at No Kings rallies across the country, fighting to protect our health care, federal workers, our essential services and our democracy. The workers, united, will never be defeated!

Many Local 21 members, like [Jonathan] Knapp, are employees of state, county, or city governments, and saw Saturday’s [No Kings Day] action as a moment to show solidarity with the federal workforce. “When they come for one of us, they come for all of us. We stand with them,” he said.

“When they come for one of us, they come for all of us. We stand with them.” The federal workers who showed up at “No Kings” are not the villains in this story.

NO KINGS 🚫👑 SF + Oakland 10.18.25 📸 Today we hit the streets to stop the the billionaire takeover and protect our public services!

BREAKING: 45,000 health care workers just launched the biggest strike of the year. Workers at Kaiser Permanente on the West Coast and in Hawaii have walked out to secure a contract. These essential workers are fighting for patient care, good wages, and decent staffing.

IFPTE Local 21 proudly celebrates #IndigenousPeoplesDay this October 13th!

From San Francisco to San Jose, Oakland to Contra Costa County, IFPTE Local 21 union members say: Vote YES on Prop 50! Vote early and vote-by-mail by Tuesday, November 4th. 🗳️

"Whether this Administration likes it or not, immigrants in this country are entitled to due process. When they don't get a fair shake from an independent judge in immigration court, they're being denied due process." — Matt Biggs, President of IFPTE @ifpte.bsky.social

Our public services, our democracy, and our housing are in crisis. And Airbnb is a big part of the problem. Until Airbnb stops their greed, we’re booking elsewhere!

In ONE night, California union members called more than 100,000 voters to tell them about the importance of voting YES ON PROP 50! Next week, we're going to shatter that record - stay tuned. 🔥 #YesonProp50 #UnionStrong

Anna Krasner, a member of the steering committee for Indivisible SF, had suggestions for Gebbia: “Re-examine your heart, pay your taxes, contribute to this community, and uplift our immigrants and our workers.” #BoycottAirbnb @indivisiblesf.bsky.social

In Solano County, we are nearing the end of our contracts and we are back in full force at the bargaining table. Our union coalition packed the chambers at yesterday’s board of supervisors meeting.