California

San Jose Starbucks Worker Shares Perspective On Strike

December 14, 2025 John Duroyan, Fight Back! News. Resist! California, Labor Movement, SBWU, Starbucks, Worker Rights and Jobs

San Jose, CA – Since the start of December, the Starbucks Workers’ Union (SBWU) has been on a national strike. In what has been dubbed the “Red Cup Rebellion,” the aim of the workers has been to disrupt the Starbucks corporation during one of its traditionally most busy times, the holiday season. In San Jose, the SBWU has voted to join the strike. Devasya Kumar, a barista and strike captain of the Capitol Square Mall Starbucks location, shared his store’s experience in participating in the strike. He captains the evening picket line. His store has shut down completely.

DOJ Pressured Lawyers To ‘Find’ Evidence UCLA Tolerated Antisemitism

December 13, 2025 Peter Elkind and Katharine Mangan, Pro Publica. Educate! Anti-Semitism, California, Department of Justice, Higher Education, Trump Administration

On the morning of Thursday, July 31, James B. Milliken was enjoying a round of golf at the remote Sand Hills club in Western Nebraska when his cellphone buzzed. Milliken was still days away from taking the helm of the sprawling University of California system, but his new office was on the line with disturbing news: The Trump administration was freezing hundreds of millions of dollars of research funding at the University of California, Los Angeles, UC’s biggest campus. Milliken quickly packed up and made the five-hour drive to Denver to catch the next flight to California. He landed on the front lines of one of the most confounding cultural battles waged by the Trump administration.

Workers Caught Up In Warner Bros. Media Monopoly Battle

December 11, 2025 Chauncey K. Robinson, People's World. Strategize! California, Mergers, Monopoly, Warner Bros, Worker Rights

Hollywood, Calif.—Streaming media giant Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) announced on Dec. 5 that they had entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max, and HBO. The deal, valued at $82.7 billion, may have the companies’ investors ready to celebrate, but several labor unions and elected officials are sounding the alarm that the acquisition may be bad business for workers and consumers alike. Over the course of several weeks, a bidding war broke out between major media studios Netflix, Paramount Skydance, and a number of other large media conglomerates over which company would acquire part or all of WBD.

LEGO Tears Down Unionization Effort At Downtown Disney Store

December 10, 2025 Chauncey K. Robinson, People's World. Resist! California, Lego, union busting, Unions, Worker Rights

Buena Park, CA — Usually, LEGO is associated with physically building things up, but in this case, workers are accusing the company of tearing down their chances of getting union representation. Employees at the Downtown Disney LEGO store are claiming that the company is using illegal union-busting tactics and violating their rights. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 324, the union supporting LEGO Store workers’ unionization efforts in Downtown Disney, announced on Friday, Dec. 5, that it has filed an unfair labor practice charge against LEGO.

Santa Fe’s Plan For A Real Minimum Wage Offers Lessons For California

November 29, 2025 Mark Kreidler, Scheer Post. Strategize! California, Cost of living, Housing, Minimum Wage, New Mexico

California has in recent years turned up its effort to establish minimum wages that allow workers to afford life in the Golden State. But the most daring experiment may well be coming not from particularly high-cost Los Angeles or San Francisco, but from a couple of states east. On Nov. 13, the City Council in Santa Fe, New Mexico, voted to integrate the cost of housing in its calculation of the citywide minimum wage going forward. According to the UC Berkeley Labor Center, this marks the first time in the U.S. that a city has factored local housing costs directly into setting its minimum.

Could Cities Partner With Guerilla Urbanists For Safer Streets?

November 24, 2025 Maylin Tu, Next City. Create! California, Los Angeles, Pedestrians, Public safety, tactical urbanism, Urban Design

Painting a crosswalk is cheap and easy. A group of neighbors can paint an entire intersection in one morning for $100 or less. Getting the city of Los Angeles to paint a crosswalk, on the other hand, might take 14 years and the death of a 9-year-old boy. Across L.A., neighbors are banding together to paint crosswalks to protest the city’s failure to protect people outside of cars. Jonathan Hale, a UCLA law student who goes by “Jonny,” spent four Saturday mornings painting crosswalks with neighbors at Stoner Park this summer, covering each corner of the park. After the city removed them, he went to the press and vowed to repaint them.

40,000 University Of California Hospital Workers In Two-Day Strike

November 19, 2025 Janice Rothstein, People's World. Resist! California, Health Care, Strikes, University of California, Worker Rights

San Diego — As 40,000 AFSCME Local 3299 workers throughout the ten-campus University of California system launched a two-day strike on Nov. 17, two Communist Party members—Alvin, an AFSCME-represented employee at University of California at San Diego (UCSD), and another worker, an AFSCME retiree from UC San Francisco—shared their thoughts before they prepared to picket. Pay, or lack of it, is the big issue. But so is disparate treatment on a class basis. While the university system fails to settle contracts addressing the cost of living and affordability crises facing its most economically vulnerable patient care workers, it’s also handed out six-figure salaries and housing subsidies to multiple high administrators.

Lawsuit Charges That California Law Illegally Muzzles Students, Teachers

November 6, 2025 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. Resist! California, Free Speech, Higher Education, Palestine, State Repression

Beginning January 1, 2026, teachers in California classrooms will be looking over their shoulders to avoid running afoul of a frightening new “antisemitism” law. On October 7, despite widespread opposition from civil rights groups, teachers’ unions, and education advocates, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 715, which amends the California Education Code to police what teachers can teach and what students can learn about Israel and Palestine. “This problematic classroom censorship bill silences Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, Jewish, and other marginalized voices in California public schools by shielding a foreign government — Israel — from legitimate criticism and criminalizes honest discussions on Palestine and other global human rights issues,” the Council on American Islamic Relations said in a statement.

What’s At Stake: USC And LMU Push Back Against Untenured Faculty Unions

October 1, 2025 Julia Barajas, Portside. Educate! California, Higher Education, union busting, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Last summer, after nearly two years of organizing, hundreds of untenured faculty at Loyola Marymount University celebrated the certification of their newly formed union. In a message to the campus community, Thomas Poon, who served as LMU’s executive vice president and provost, wrote: “We honor the will of our [non-tenure track] faculty and the perspectives they expressed throughout the election campaign.” The university, he added, “will continue to engage the union in good faith and with transparency.” Poon is now president of LMU and, earlier this month, he changed his tune. Poon announced Sept. 12 that the university’s board of directors decided to invoke a religious exemption to the National Labor Relations Act.

Research And Public Service Professionals Vote To Form Union

September 25, 2025 Josephine Murphy, Portside. Organize! California, Higher Education, Unions, Worker Rights

Research and public service professionals across the UC voted Tuesday to form a new union that will represent 7,200 workers. The union, Research and Public Service Professionals-United Auto Workers, will represent workers who run “core facilities,” administer grants and analyze data, among other services. About half of those who the union will represent voted in the election, with 83% voting “yes” for the union’s formation. RPSPs have cited multiple reasons for the formation of RPSP-UAW, including stagnant salaries amid increasing workloads and a lack of administrative transparency. “In the face of federal funding cuts to higher education, many RPSPs also want a union to gain a stronger political voice,” a RPSP-UAW press release said.

The UAW Has A Vision For Green Industrial Policy In California

September 22, 2025 Paul Prescod, Portside. Create! California, Green Energy Transition, UAW, Unions

A consensus is emerging across the political spectrum around the need for industrial policy. Whether in the form of the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act under Joe Biden in 2022 or the haphazard tariff policy of Donald Trump implemented earlier this year, political leaders on both sides of the aisle are clearly searching for answers regarding how to revive the United States’s flagging manufacturing base. While the Trump administration places a lot of rhetorical emphasis on bringing back industrial jobs, its policies so far have displayed a profound lack of seriousness or coherence. Trump’s tariffs have not been focused on strategic industries or paired with the investment and planning required to make jobs actually materialize.

UC Berkeley Hands Over Private Staff And Student Information For Trump’s ‘Antisemitism’ Probe

September 18, 2025 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. Educate! California, Higher Education, Israel, Palestine, Political repression, UC Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has provided the federal government with the private information of more than 150 students, staff, and faculty. The move comes in response to the Trump administration’s investigation into alleged campus antisemitism, which is widely viewed as a means to crack down on campus Palestine activism. The Daily Californian reports that the school’s Office of Legal Affairs sent emails to those impacted on September 4. “As part of its investigation, OCR required production of comprehensive documents, including files and reports related to alleged antisemitic incidents,” the email read.

SJSU Pro-Palestine Students Disrupt Career Fair With Silent Action

September 14, 2025 John Durovan, Fight Back! News. Resist! California, Career Fair, Gaza, Genocide, Student Activism, weapons

San Jose, CA – On September 10, San Jose Students for a Democratic Society alongside various other SJSU students held a silent protest outside a career fair where Lockheed Martin, notorious weapons manufacturer and supporter of the Gaza genocide, had a table. San Jose State University held the “Business, Financial Services and Logistics Job and Internship Fair” at 11 a.m. in the Student Union Ballroom. The career fair on the school’s website claims to attract over 600 students. Lockheed Martin was present at the event, intent on recruiting students to participate in what they call “defense,” which is in fact the design and manufacture of warplanes, helicopters and munitions which are used by the Israeli military to bomb and murder thousands of Palestinians a month.

Hundreds Of Staff At California National Parks To Unionize

September 3, 2025 Dani Anguiano, The Guardian. Organize! California, National Parks, Trump Administration, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Hundreds of staff at two of California’s most popular national parks have voted to unionize, a move that comes during a troubled summer for the National Park Service, which has seen the Trump administration enact unprecedented staff and budget cuts. In an election held between July and August, more than 97% of workers at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon national parks voted in support of organizing a union, according to a statement from the National Federation of Federal Employees. The Federal Labor Relations Authority certified the results last week. “I am honored to welcome the Interpretive Park Rangers, scientists, biologists, photographers, geographers, and so many other federal employees in essential roles at both Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon to our union,” said Randy Erwin, the NFFE national president.

Land Trust’s Pioneering Model Protects Artists From Displacement

August 28, 2025 Eliana Perozo, Next City. Create! Affordable Housing, Artists, California, Gentrification, Land trusts

To Meg Shiffler, every artist is an entrepreneur. The inaugural director of the San Francisco-based nonprofit Artist Space Trust knows that when artists are priced out of their communities, it’s not just a loss of cultural vibrancy; it’s the shuttering of small businesses and the weakening of local economies. Artists everywhere are on the brink. A longitudinal study of 20 million workers from 2006 to 2021 found that artists earn up to 30% less than those in other industries. Although over 5 million people work in the arts and cultural industries, they face higher unemployment rates, lower wages, and fewer benefits. And because artists are three-and-a-half times more likely to be self-employed than other workers, many lack the credit and stable income that banks and landlords require. “The displacement of artists is not just the displacement of workers,” Shiffler explains.

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