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

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

"...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. ✊️

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

IFPTE Local 21 members are standing in solidarity with United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) on STRIKE DAY 4 by honoring their picket lines. ✊🪧 You can support educators on strike by writing a letter to the school board or taking other actions here: wecantwait.info/parents/uesf

The San Francisco teachers union and SFUSD agreed to a $183 million deal early Friday that ends the strike after four days on the picket line. Here’s what you should know about the two-year contract → www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s... 📸: Lizzy Montana Myers/For the S.F. Chronicle

We're at Mission High School this morning as SF educators stand up for fully staffed schools and the supports students deserve. Our members are fighting for the schools their communities deserve, and to get back to their classrooms with a fair contract. ✊ @cftunion.bsky.social

After their first strike in nearly 50 years, educators in San Francisco won a tentative agreement that strengthens staffing, improves special education supports & secures fully funded family healthcare! @cftunion.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u... #PublicSchoolProud

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!

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

“I’ll never forget my government treating me like this. I really hope this will never happen to anybody else because of the way they look, if they look like the enemy of our country.” - Fred Korematsu

UPDATE: The U.S. Senate just voted NO on a bill that would've given ICE and DHS $370 million in new funding — a clear response to the public outcry against ICE's terror campaign in Minnesota. This is a step in the right direction, but the fight is not over yet.

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.

The Senate will soon vote on a bill that will pump millions in new funding into ICE and DHS – allowing them to expand detention and deportation efforts and increase violence against everyday people. We cannot let this bill pass. The vote could happen as soon as tomorrow, so take action with us now ⬇️

We are witnessing a federal occupation of an American city, carried out through intimidation, fear, and violence at the expense of our children, students, and families. ICE does not belong in our schools or communities. #IceOutSchools

👀 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 tried to post a video to TikTok in solidarity with immigrants. After receiving multiple errors while attempting to post the video, it’s still not being shown to users. And we are not alone. This is a dangerous time for our democracy and we can’t allow our social media apps to silence us.

America’s unions mourn the senseless killing by federal agents of our AFGE Local 3669 union brother and VA nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti. We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed. https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO

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

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

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

APALA (Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO) seeks an Executive Director. Location is flexible (work can be performed from anywhere in the continental United States). Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @apalasf.bsky.social

For South Asian and Muslim Americans nationwide, Zohran Mamdani's historic win for Mayor of New York City is a huge milestone in political representation. Sadly, it has also triggered a backlash of anti-South Asian hate and Islamophobia. Here’s what you need to know. ⬇️🧵

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.

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

UFW mourns the passing of our brother Kent Wong. Please watch Kent speak in beautiful short video connecting his time with UFW to his view of the importance of solidary across labor and race and cultural backgrounds.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODkU...

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

🚨 @coveredca.bsky.social enrollees: Your premiums are about to DOUBLE in 2026 without Congressional action. And Trump & Republicans’ H.R. 1 bill is only going to make accessing care harder. Here are some upcoming changes that @coveredca.bsky.social for enrollees should be aware of:

#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

“The Writers Guild of America East and the Writers Guild of America West asked the New York state attorney general, Letitia James, to investigate Paramount over ‘potential wrongdoing’ after the company announced the cancellation of the Late Show on Thursday.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

ICE just got a 265% detention funding boost. Palantir software is being used to create the federal government’s first national citizenship data bank. The Trump regime is attacking naturalized citizens and birthright citizenship. Be warned — Trump’s police state is here.

Mass detention and tent camps? How can we be talking about this in America? We should strive to lead the world in freedom, not in cruelty. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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...

The Supreme Court has given Trump and DOGE permission to throw federal workers out of their jobs and cleared the way for even more mass firings. We’ll keep working and organizing to ensure federal workers know how to exercise their rights. This isn't over. aflcio.org/press/releas...

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)

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)

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.

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.

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! 👏

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings

All power to the people, no human is illegal! APALA SF crew out at the #NoKings SF action today! Members Natalie Gee (IFPTE 21) & Cassondra Curiel (UESF) rallied the crowd from the stage. 📣✊️ @itsnataliegee.bsky.social @pinoyamerican.bsky.social @kaygenn.bsky.social

Emergency Press Conference today on Trump's attack on immigrants and racist travel ban. ⚡End the Travel Ban ⚡Stop the ICE raids and deportations ⚡Defend immigrant communities #BayAreaResists #SolidarityKnowsNoBorders #NoBan #StopTheRaids #RepealTheBan @itsnataliegee.bsky.social @kaygenn.bsky.social

A judge set David Huerta free today after ICE attacked, injured, and unjustly detained him for standing up for immigrant workers. But this fight isn’t over. Thousands are still detained. We won’t stop until ALL our people are free. #FreeDavidEndRaids seiuca.org/press-releas...

You don’t need to be in LA to fight back. Rapid response rallies are happening across the nation to demand David Huerta’s release and an end to ICE raids. actionnetwork.org/event_campai... #FreeDavidHuerta #FreeThemALL