MAY DAY. WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES.
Friday, May 1. 4 PM. Waterfront Park.
TAX THE RICH. NO ICE. NO WAR. EXPAND DEMOCRACY.
We rally, take action, and march, together. No shopping. No silence. Workers over billionaires.
RSVP + SHARE: bit.ly/sdmayday2026
#MayDaySanDiego #WorkersOverBillionaires
Candidates seeking the San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO’s endorsement must first attend a Labor Unions 101 to be considered.
Our next Labor Unions 101 is Tuesday, April 7 at 4 pm.
Find Labor Unions 101 dates and sign up on our website at UNIONYES.ORG
Candidates seeking the San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO’s endorsement must first attend a Labor Unions 101 to be considered.
Our next Labor Unions 101 is Tuesday, April 7 at 4 pm.
Find Labor Unions 101 dates and sign up on our website at UNIONYES.ORG
#OtD 2 Apr 1920 a Chicago rail union activist was demoted. 700 colleagues walked out in protest, growing to 9000 in 2 days and spreading nationally the next week despite unions ordering members to work. More in this great book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
Trump is a symptom. The sickness is greed.
We need something new. Unionize every workplace. Build power to strike. Build a world where no one is disposable.
Saturday
10 AM
Waterfront Park
Show San Diego: POWER IS IN A UNION.
RSVP: mobilize.us/nokings/event/902655
Trump is a symptom. The sickness is greed.
We need something new. Unionize every workplace. Build power to strike. Build a world where no one is disposable.
Saturday
10 AM
Waterfront Park
Show San Diego: POWER IS IN A UNION.
RSVP: mobilize.us/nokings/event/902655
Our best way to protect ourselves and fight for dignity and safety at work and in our society is through solidarity and a union contract.
The Centralia explosion reminds us that bosses will always prioritize profits over the health, welfare and lives of workers. Whether you work in a coal mine or code software, you are disposable to the boss.
and call for change—"The Dying Miner," "Waiting at the Gate," and "Talking Centralia."
Guthrie's songs, along with the advocacy of the United Mine Workers of America and the labor movement, pushed the federal government to act. Under pressure, Congress passed new laws and enforcement rules.
Desperate, they wrote notes to their wives and children on whatever they could find.
The Centralia disaster became a national story. Woody Guthrie, one of America's most popular musicians at the time, wrote three songs to commemorate the disaster
Forty-five more died from exposure to toxic gasses released during the explosion. Of the 31 who were rescued, one later died of gas exposure.
As the image shows, many men who were trapped inside the mine found pockets of air to stay alive.
so men were sent down into the dangerous mine until tragedy struck. At 3:25 a.m. on March 25, a massive explosion ripped through the mine.
At the time, 142 men were working in the mine. Sixty-five died in the explosion.
But according to historians, government regulators deferred to the coal mine owners, and followed a "weak, ineffectual, and indifferent policy toward enforcement of state mining laws." Mine bosses would rather risk the lives of the miners than pay to meet safety standards,
Leading up to this disaster, the mine owner had received numerous warnings about unsafe conditions in the mine. Miners and their union sent letters demanding the government intervene for the safety of the workers.
The great Woodie Guthrie wrote those lines in "The Dying Miner," one of three songs he wrote in honor of 111 men who died in Centralia Coal Company mine No. 5 Coal Mine in Wamac, Illinois on March 25, 1947.
Graphic reading "Honoring union history: Centralia Mine Explosion, March 25, 1947" Underneath are images from the Centralia Sentinel with a headline reading "Miners wrote notes, dying men bid farewell to their wives and families" with pictures of the destruction, some of the killed miners and other stories about the disaster
"We found a little place in the air
Crawled and drug ourselves here
But the smoke is bad and the fumes coming in
And the gas is burning my eyes"
🧵 #unionhistory #laborhistory #1u #solidarity
They called them essential. Then they laid them off.
Paraeducators. Office staff. Family Services Assistants. 120+ classified workers with layoff notices—zero administrator layoffs.
TUESDAY: Rally @ the School Board. 4pm. Morse High Auditorium. Wear blue.
Show up. Stand up.
#SaveOurClassifieds
They called them essential. Then they laid them off.
Paraeducators. Office staff. Family Services Assistants. 120+ classified workers with layoff notices—zero administrator layoffs.
TUESDAY: Rally @ the School Board. 4pm. Morse High Auditorium. Wear blue.
Show up. Stand up.
#SaveOurClassifieds
🚨ACTION NEEDED: The Senate is expected to vote as early as this weekend on the SAVE America Act, a voter suppression bill that threatens vote by mail and all voting rights. Call your senators at 202-224-3121 or visit nalc.org/action and ask them to OPPOSE this bill. www.nalc.org/news/nalc-up...
Over the past decade, workers have reshaped their unions from the inside out. Reform caucuses are the engine of that renewal. Change doesn’t just drop in from above. It starts on the shop floor.
Learn more about starting a reform caucus in your union: labornotes.org/caucuspacket
The SAVE America Act is a scam to try and distract from how billionaires and anti-worker politicians are making life unaffordable for working families.
Voting is safe and secure. Call (844) 733-3172 and tell your Senator focus on lowering costs – not rigging our democracy.
We wish our IUPAT siblings a happy 139th birthday, and the power of solidarity for years to come!
IUPAT members fight for themselves and their communities. IUPAT has been one of the leading union voices decrying Trump's inhumane and extreme deportation machine. IUPAT members from Local 1399 have been in the streets arm in arm with our local union community to defend the rights of all Americans.
Through the 60s and 70s, IUPAT members organized alongside union siblings to support the Civil Rights Movement, the creation of Medicaid and expansions of our civil rights.
Today, 140,000 members of IUPAT continue to fight for dignity and voice on the job and in our society.
One of the union's earliest victories was securing a half-day off on Saturdays—at the time a major change. By 1918, the union had established a 40-hour work week for all members. Over the coming decades, IUPAT would grow to more than 100,000 members.
The 1880s and 1890s were a pivotal time for union organizing, especially among skilled trades workers. Within a year of founding, more than 7,000 workers had joined the union, despite violent opposition from the robber barons and other bosses of the day.
On top, a photo from the first convention of the Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of America in 1887, featuring a group of all white men in suits sitting together. Bottom, a photo of IUPAT members on a picket line circa 2025 carrying signs that read "stronger together." The group is diverse racially and mixed gender. In the center, a yellow bar with the IUPAT logo and text reading "founded March 15, 1887"
On March 15, 1887, workers formed the Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of America, which would later become the International Union of Painter and Allied Trades (IUPAT). 🧵 #unionhistory #laborhistory #1u #solidarity
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...
