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Last Friday, workers from three East Bay Peet’s Coffee locations marched to Peet’s corporate office in Emeryville to deliver a letter announcing their intention to unionize with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

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Last Monday morning, people gathered at the side entrance of Local 10 in SF, home of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). A collection of longshore workers, sailors, and labor activists came together to celebrate May Day.
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On April 7th, workers at @urbanoreworkers voted to unionize with @iww, with a supermajority of workers voting ‘yes’. The vote was a culmination of a years-long organizing effort that started during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://t.co/HEOrM2WMj0

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Early Wednesday morning, @SBWUCastro workers lined up in front of the locked store with picket signs. The strike was part of a nationwide day of action planned by Starbucks workers. Read more: https://t.co/Q8xfFx3AwI

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Right before Christmas, Macy's Union Square workers and @UFCW5 members voted to authorize a two-day strike after months of failed negotiations with the company. They demand the company to return to the bargaining table to reach a fair agreement. https://t.co/HVwei3DYV2

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After weeks of consideration and public backlash, @sfbos came to a conclusion on the controversial subject of “killer robots” yesterday afternoon, voting to temporarily halt the policy and expecting a final vote next week.

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This week's UC strikes is a milestone in America's labor fight. With Starbucks workers also going on strike, these events might inspire labor organizers to rise.

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CCSF has been a hotbed of labor activism in recent years. For years, CCSF faculty fought hard, which led to making CCSF free. With Prop O on the ballot for Election Day today, voters will determine whether or not to invest more in students.

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ICYMI — we have three new stories released this week.

1. We took a deeper dive into San Francisco's vacant units and who owns and keeps them vacant: https://t.co/QX6hML4dGW

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3. Educators at @_SFMORE and part of the @UESF union rallied outside 555 Franklin, demanding the school district to cancel the contract with the EmPower payroll system after months of inadequate pay:

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After a week of public backlash, @BobaGuys suspended workers at the Mission store without pay, disabled comments on their Instagram posts, and made their Twitter private. Read more: https://t.co/wIO2dgzDKB

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Last month, service workers at SFO announced a tentative agreement to call off their 3-day strike. We recently spoke to Tom Kreis, a rank-and-file @UniteHereLocal2 member who helped organize the strike. https://t.co/jSJJcBT7pg

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EDITED: last week, @AlcatrazWorkers won their union election by 52-11 despite union busting efforts from the Hornblower Group. We spoke with a deckhand to learn more about what’s next for the union. https://t.co/qVGjsbACL5

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A new report released by Supervisor Dean Preston reveals that over 40K units were vacant the same year as 8K people were homeless in the City. Such an incredible disparity highlights the troubling inequality of the housing market.

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Palestinian organizers led a car caravan on Saturday after a series of home demolitions in occupied Palestine, including one that was broadcast in a highly-viewed livestream on Instagram, were documented on social media. Read more:
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In response to the killing of Ajmal Amani, @DefundSFPDnow, along with various coalitions, held a vigil right outside of the Covered Wagon Hotel last Friday to call for police abolition and invest in care for the community.

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Yesterday, over a hundred tenants marched from the Embarcadero Plaza over to the Veritas Investments headquarters on Market and Bush Street to demand Newsom to extend the eviction moratorium and to negotiate with the tenants in their buildings. Read more:
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Dean Preston was the lone "no" vote Tuesday on a city budget which refunds the police and defunds social housing. Sup. Preston said that the current approach to policing "has failed us, made us all less safe, and destroyed generations of lives".

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