Billionaires are spending big to stop Natalie Gee, but we’re bringing out the people power. This Tuesday we can send a clear message that District 4 is not for sale. Natalie Gee is fighting for a more affordable San Francisco. She is the only choice for: ✅ The SF Labor Council ✅ Teachers ✅ Nurses

Our members are out knocking on doors today for our National APALA endorsed candidate Connie Chan! We need Connie's strength and voice in Washington D.C. representing us! ❤️✊️🔥 Vote for Connie Chan for Congress by June 2nd! 🗳 @conniechansf.bsky.social @kaygenn.bsky.social

🗞️NEW: Lurie promised a permitting overhaul. Its builders say it was troubled from the start. Ex-employees of OpenGov said the firm knew it would miss deadlines for the project. Current city workers say the software lacks important features.

16 days until election day! Today we were out in the Sunset talking to folks about electing Natalie Gee and passing Prop D. Let’s win for working people on June 2. 💪

Natalie Gee is running for D4 Supervisor to represent our community, not corporate interests. Today we talked to our neighbors about how Natalie will fight to make San Francisco more affordable for all of us. She’s the only choice for teachers, nurses, and L21. Vote by June 2!

May Day is about solidarity and the power we have as working people. This year we made our message loud and clear: we’re fighting to put workers over billionaires! ✅ Protect public services. ✅ People over robots. ✅ Fight corporate greed.

APALA SF was at the SFO action and the SF Labor Council march for May Day & the first day of AANHPI Heritage Month! ✊️ #WorkersOverBillionaires #ICEout #MayDay #AANHPI #AANHPIHeritageMonth

“There’s no better place than Washington, DC for Connie Chan, a former member of Local 21, to reinforce her pro-worker, pro-Union credentials with Unions throughout our nation,” said Hsieh. “We were pleased with the event turnout and are buoyed by this strong showing.” www.ifpte.org/news/ifptenb...

"...The birthright citizenship case before the Supreme Court is not some isolated policy debate. It’s part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to put an end to multiracial democracy as we know it, by making it harder for communities of color..." #BirthrightCitizenship @stopaapihate.org

APALA SF Members at #NoKings in Boston & SF. ✊️

SF Mayor Lurie has ordered the Department of Public Health (DPH) to cut an estimated 95 positions. Today, Local 21 and other city unions presented over 1,500 signatures from DPH staff to Director Tsai calling on the department to push back against layoffs and protect care! ✊

From SF to DC, we’ve got to fund our schools and our teachers.

San Francisco can’t wait any longer for the schools their students deserve. Solidarity with United Educators of San Francisco who are on strike fighting to fix the staffing crisis, improve special education, and better wages and health benefits. One day longer, one day stronger!

Bad Bunny condemns ICE during his #GRAMMYs speech for Best Música Urbana Album: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love."

Today 3000 people of San Francisco created the massive Human Banner on the Beach that you see below (as photographed from a drone above). Each of those letters is 100's of people working for 1 cause. Together we can save the country!

Full Bad Bunny speech

Get your No ICE cookies at Devil's Teeth Baking Company in San Francisco! All proceeds from cookies go to Community Action Netork Minnesota. Also, buy other goodies available from this small business. #NoICE www.devilsteethbakingcompany.com/visit

We were so excited to support Natalie Gee’s kickoff for D4 Supervisor this morning. (@itsnataliegee.bsky.social) We know she will be a champion for the Sunset!

A message from our union’s president, Bianca Polovina, of solidarity with our immigrant communities and the everyday people who are bravely standing up to the brutality and injustices of ICE. We must keep showing up to observe, to document, to protest. An injury to one is an injury to all.

👀 Our San Francisco union hall has a new banner out front! We’re taking the Overpaid CEO Act into our street and hoping this gets everyone’s attention walking by. Will you standupforsf.com?

We had a great time at the 23rd Annual SF Parol Lantern Festival - “MAKIBAKA: Ignite the Fight, Light Up Our Legacy” presented by the Filipino-American Development Foundation with support of SOMA Pilipinas! Isang Bagsak! 👏 @kaygenn.bsky.social @pinoyamerican.bsky.social #parollaternfestival

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 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

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.

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.

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...

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.

We must pass it to protect our communities and our healthcare. Prop 50 gives voters the power to approve temporary maps and protect our future. #YESonca50

It's #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth ☀️✊️ and it is a critical time for the AANHPI community to participate in our democracy. We joined the SF Labor Council the last couple weekends to get out the vote for #YESon50 in California! 🗳 @californialabor.bsky.social

"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

Shame on them all.

🚨🚨 ATTENTION @governor.ca.gov 🚨🚨 @californialabor.bsky.social sponsored #SB7 is sitting on your desk, awaiting your signature. This bill enacts common sense AI safeguards by making sure that human workers cannot be disciplined or fired by an algorithm. (1/6)

October is Filipino American History Month! ✊ We’re proud to call the Filipino Cultural Heritage District home for our San Francisco union hall. We encourage you to check out a new exhibit at YBCA titled "MAKIBAKA: A Living Legacy" ybca.org/event/makibaka-a-living-legacy

Happy Labor Day! Today Local 21 joined thousands of our union siblings in a march through San Francisco to stop the billionaire takeover of our democracy. ✊

#WorkersOverBillionaires It's #LaborDay and we marched with thousands of people on the streets of San Francisco united on the following demands:

"In many ways, we felt like America had turned their back on us. We don't want to be a part of that again. So we are showing up where we can. We're raising our voices. We're protesting. We're getting the grannies and the grandpas out to tell their stories." #ICEOutOfDublin

Now, ICE has conducted multiple site visits to assess reopening this site for immigrant detention. We cannot let this happen. Not here in the Bay, not anywhere. #ICEOutOfDublin

The former federal women’s prison in Dublin — officially closed in December 2024 — was shut down after years of rampant abuse, medical neglect, and systemic mistreatment, particularly targeting immigrant women.

APALA SF & Alameda Chapters unite! ✊️ ICE melts under resistance! 🧊🔥 We joined Tsuru for Solidarity -- drawing on the legacy of Japanese American incarceration during WWII to resist its repetition today.

Our coalition of 149 ideologically diverse and distinctive national organizations collectively representing tens of millions of people will remember who turned their backs on working families—and who we can count on to fight for us. www.aft.org/they-betraye...

At the APALA Convention opening panel "Resistance: Labor Leading the Way" our Local 21 delegation and SPEEA members heard from unions presidents from AFGE, AFSCME, AFT and IFPTE union President Matt Biggs, on how we are fighting attacks on workers, unions and our democracy.

Whether on the picket line, in civil disobedience, or organizing majority action, Kat has done it all and taught others how to do the same. Local 21 is proud and excited to support Kat General in her new role at APALA.

Kat's 20+ years in the labor movement are defined by winning for the people. Even when the odds are against us Kat charts and implements a path to victory. (2/3)

Congrats to IFPTE Local 21 Field Director Kat General (@kaygenn.bsky.social), newly elected 1st Vice President of APALA! Kat's served on the APALA National Executive Board since 2019, the same year she won the Art Takei Leadership Award. 🧵(1/3)

SF Chapter members had a blast at the APALA 18th Biennial Convention- Solidarity. Resistance. Unity. this last weekend. Congratulations to our SF Chapter President Kat General who was elected to serve as the APALA National 1st Vice President! 👏

🚨 HAPPENING NOW: SF city workers just shut down the Board of Supervisors meeting. Cuts to public health, emergency management, and homelessness services will impact all of us.

“Let’s remember it is the workers and the immigrants who make this city and this country function. Not the billionaires, not the corporations, and most definitely not a king!” #NoKingsDay — Local 21 Member Natalie Gee