In 2024, teachers earned 73 cents for every dollar their similarly educated peers made, on average—a record low. In 1996, the gap was much smaller: teachers earned 94 cents for every dollar. We need to pay teachers more! How? By investing in public education. www.epi.org/publication/...

YEE-HAW! 🤠 Phonebank for YES on Prop 50 this Thurs 9/25, 5-8pm. Stop Trump's power grab! In-person: United Labor Center. Food provided! Info + RSVP: unionyes.org/prop50 "Don't Mess With The West" theme! #YesOn50

Trump fired 200k workers & is stealing $4.5T from the working class for billionaires. Now he’s rigging elections. We’re fighting back with YES on Prop 50. Join us! 🕘 SATURDAY SEPT. 27 @ 9 AM 📍 Mira Mesa Park North 🍳 Breakfast & lunch provided! RSVP: unionyes.org/prop50 #YesOn50 #SaveDemocracy

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🔴 Trump & Texas GOP rigging Congress—stealing 5 seats to crush workers & democracy. Prop 50 is CA’s fight-back. A temporary, voter-approved map to level the field. Kickoff: Sat, Sep 20 · 9am-12pm Orange Park, Chula Vista 1475 4th Ave, 91911 RSVP: unionyes.org/prop50 #YesOn50

This morning, labor, education, advocacy, and community leaders stood together to denounce ICE’s terror—funded more than any other federal law enforcement agency—while healthcare, housing, and education face cuts. We’re building collective power to stand with our immigrant community.

In the booming cotton and textile mills outside Pittsburgh, women and children labored for half the wage that skilled male workers earned. In 1845, mill owners in Allegheny City began imposing 12 hour workdays—and in some cases even longer. 🧵 #unionhistory #laborhistory #1u

Do your part this Labor Day and consider taking these actions: ▪️ Add your name to our petition by scanning the QR code or visiting mysandiego.info/wage ▪️ Join us at City Hall on Tuesday, Sep 16 | 10AM | City Hall, 202 C St ▪️ Spread the word and share this message

We’re launching “What $25 Means to Me” — a series highlighting the voices of San Diego’s tourism and hospitality workers. Their stories remind us: this fight isn’t just about corporations’ profits. It’s about people, dignity, and the right to live in the city you work so hard to serve.

After decades of service, workers like Ramon deserve dignity and stability — not poverty wages. ✍🏽 Add your name: mysandiego.info/wage

Meet Ramon, a hotel bell department worker who has served San Diego’s visitors for 31 years. As costs keep rising and tips shrink, Ramon and his coworkers are falling further behind. A $25 wage would mean catching up with rent, paying bills, and having a little left for family life.

🔴 Trump & Texas GOP rigging Congress—stealing 5 seats to crush workers & democracy. Prop 50 is CA’s fight-back. A temporary, voter-approved map to level the field. Kickoff: Sat, Sep 20 · 9am-12pm Orange Park, Chula Vista 1475 4th Ave, 91911 RSVP: unionyes.org/prop50 #YesOn50

In the late 1800s, many newly-arrived Slavic immigrants arrived in the US. Desperate for work, these new immigrants were often used by coal barons as scab labor, creating deep tension between the new immigrants and the existing mineworkers. 🧵 #unionhistory #laborhistory #solidarity #1u

T-Mobile is bankrolling Elon Musk, empowering Trump’s agenda & has spent years stopping workers from joining a union. We’re organizing a boycott to show corporations if they enable extremists they will lose customers. #BoycottTMobile RSVP for the call on Sept 10: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Voters wanted lower costs, better healthcare, more professional opportunities, and a stronger voice on the job. Trump has betrayed those hardworking Americans, but unions will never give up on creating opportunity for everyone to thrive. youtu.be/YC4LMHgPArc

It’s been a long (and very sweaty 😅) Labor Day out with @seanelorivera.bsky.social, capturing moments of solidarity, joy, and power with workers, community leaders, and organizers. Huge thanks to @sdiclaborcouncil.bsky.social and the coalition that made today possible.

@sdiclaborcouncil.bsky.social, @aftguild1931, @ucaft.bsky.social, UCSD Faculty Assoc, @uaw4811.bsky.social, @calnurses.bsky.social call on SD City Council to turn off automated license plate readers and delete the data that ICE uses to track residents and workers docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Happy Labor Day! Workers Over Billionaires, Always! ✊🏽🌾🌹 Every Worker Deserves a Union = Workers Standing Together for a Contract with Fair Wages, Quality Healthcare, Retirement Benefits, and Respect. #LiveBetterWorkUnion #UnionStrong @sdiclaborcouncil.bsky.social @sdbldgtrades.bsky.social

Labor Day = Day of Action. Thousands marched in San Diego today. Which side are you on? Read and share SDICLC President Brigette Browning’s fiery op-ed on reclaiming Labor Day’s radical roots for the working class: thejumpingoffplace.substack.com/p/reclaiming... #WhichSideAreYouOn

On September 1, 1907, Walter Reuther was born in Wheeling, WV. Reuther's father, a German immigrant, taught Walter and his 4 siblings about trade unionism and solidarity—including the importance of civil rights, women's suffrage and solidarity. #unionhistory #laborhistory #1u 🧵

San Diego stands with working families! Join @sdiclaborcouncil.bsky.social and allies on Workers’ Labor Day on Monday for a rally to demand a stop to the billionaire takeover. www.mobilize.us/aflcio/event...

I'm going to this Labor Day rally in downtown San Diego, are any of you planning to go?

The average CEO-to-worker pay ratio in the 1960s was 20:1 🤔

I’m grateful to @sdiclaborcouncil.bsky.social for uplifting our fight to raise the minimum wage to $25/hour for hospitality and tourism workers. Let’s show which side we’re on: the side of workers, not corporations. 📍 Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Hwy 🗓 Mon, Sep 1 | 10AM 🔗 bit.ly/sdlaborday2025

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? Striking healthcare workers OR greedy CEOs? $25/hr for hospitality OR $100B for ICE? Working class OR billionaires? Join us Labor Day, Sept 1 @ 10 AM @ Waterfront Park to demand a world that puts people over extreme profits RSVP: bit.ly/sdlaborday2025 #WhichSideAreYouOn

California lawmakers reach an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app-based drivers to form unions. This is a victory for organized labor that could lay the groundwork for similar efforts in other states.

It is unconscionable that top CEOs make 285x what the median worker makes. They don’t do 285x the work, what justifies their, on average, $18.9 MILLION per year compensation? Working people don’t have to accept this. A union contract is how workers get their fair share.

We stand with healthcare workers at Rady Children’s Hospital who are fighting to form their union with @seiu-uhw.bsky.social Management must respect their workers’ choice to unionize, and allow a free and fair election. #United4All #SupportRadyWorkers

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." Since 1775—before the Declaration of Independence—letter carriers for the United States Postal Service (USPS) have delivered mail to households across America 🧵 #unionhistory

Largest Federal Employee Union Blasts Trump Administration’s Further Attack on Federal Employees’ Union Rights url: www.afge.org/publication/...

SDICLC passed a resolution recognizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza, condemning the assault on Chris Smalls, and demanding an end to US weapons transfers. Solidarity means action: an injury to one is an injury to all. For full resolution: UNIONYES.ORG > Advocacy & Action > Issues > Latest Updates

They came by bus. By car. By train. By air. On foot. They came from every corner of the country. Some traveled for days or even weeks. On August 28, 1963, more than a quarter of a million people gathered below the Lincoln Memorial to join the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom #unionhistory 🧵

"Workers are workers and need to stick together. Make up your mind whether you want your paycheck or your prejudice." – Walter Reuther #laborhistory #unionhistory #1u 🧵

"Their eventual triumph marked the first time in American history that a Black union forced a powerful corporation to the negotiating table.” #laborhistory #unionhistory #1u 🧵

Any union member will tell you—it’s #BetterInAUnion! When workers stand together and organize, we have the power to fight for better wages, better benefits, better health and safety protections - all of which strengthens our communities and our country.

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? Striking healthcare workers OR greedy CEOs? $25/hr for hospitality OR $100B for ICE? Working class OR billionaires? Join us Labor Day, Sept 1 @ 10 AM @ Waterfront Park to demand a world that puts people over extreme profits RSVP: bit.ly/sdlaborday2025 #WhichSideAreYouOn

Events like tonight’s Nonviolent Direct Action Training matter because the only way we’re going to create meaningful change is by doing it together. Grateful to be with those committed to building a more just, safe, and united San Diego. TY @sdiclaborcouncil.bsky.social @ucsdlaborcenter.bsky.social

WANT TO FIGHT BACK? They’ve got money & power. We’ve got each other – and that’s how we win. Learn the skills to: → Organize your workplace → Shut down injustice → Protect your community Nonviolent Direct Action Training August 19 San Diego Convention Center RSVP: bit.ly/aug19trainingrsvp

On August 10, 1978, workers at the New York Times, New York Post and New York Daily News went on strike. The roots of the strike go back to 1923, when members of the printing pressmen's union negotiated a system that required a minimum number of pressmen at each printing press. #unionhistory #1u

DOGE using AI to cut half of all government regulations should set off alarm bells for working people everywhere. AI should be used as a tool to make workers' lives better, not to gut the regulations that keep them safe and healthy on the job and at home.

On August 5th, 1981, Ronald Reagan began firing striking air traffic controllers 48 hours after the strike began. 🧵 #unionhistory #laborhistory #1u #solidarity

SICK OF ICE'S TERROR? They arrested a 71yo observer. Raided street vendors. Stormed Buona Forchetta. ICE is Trump’s unaccountable gestapo—but we’re building people power to fight back. NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TRAINING August 19 San Diego Convention Center RSVP: bit.ly/aug19trainingrsvp

Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows. 90% of new renewable energy capacity costs less than fossil fuels. ClimateChange www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

Today, marks 16 years since the federal minimum wage was last increased. Since then, CEO pay has increased by 91%. What's the best way to strengthen worker power and secure family-sustaining wages? Get Organized.

“Cancer patients don’t have the luxury of waiting...please, find your humanity.” #UC #ResetUCPriorities

Senator Slotkin has announced her intended support for legislation that would CUT and FREEZE the wages of farm workers - one of the most underpaid professions in the US. This is just wrong! Call @slotkin.senate.gov TODAY! Urge her to withdraw her support. (202) 759 - 4087

Looking to flesh out your summer wardrobe? Why not do it union-style, with our incredible Unionize California merch! Check out our shop! stores.inksoft.com/unionize_cal...

Today is #BlackWomensEqualPayDay. Every year, employers steal 34 cents of every dollar Black women earn by underpaying them for their labor. You'll probably heard today that Black women "earn less" or "are only paid 66 cents for every dollar white, non-Hispanic men earn." 🧵

1 in 5 workers is an immigrant. Immigrants are a crucial part of the US economy, and Trump's radical deportation agenda will hurt us all. Trump’s increase in deportations will destroy 6 million jobs—for both immigrants AND US-born workers: www.epi.org/publication/...

We're not free if the bosses can force us to clock out of democracy when we clock into work. Our labor movement fights for all workers to have freedom on the job and in our society. We fight for all working people because we know that none of us are truly free until all of us are free. 🧵