Our full statement on our victory against 13 Super PACS, the deepest pockets in Sacramento, and the only race to oust a Republican incumbent. drive.google.com/file/d/1U7-fg8…

.@ShengForOakland is a barrier-breaking councilmember and one of our most creative, substantive, and effective leaders on housing, homelessness, and public safety. She is a champion for #workingfamilies and #publicservices. We’re PROUD to call her our Oakland Mayor-Elect! 💙

Congratulations to Mayor-Elect Sheng Thao! 🥳 We're excited to continue working with you to fully fund, staff up, and provide high-quality city services for every Oakland resident. ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿

Guaranteeing 7 paid sick days to rail workers would cost the rail industry a grand total of $321 million a year – less than 2% of its profits. Please don't tell me the rail industry can't afford it. Rail companies spent $25.5 billion on stock buybacks and dividends this year.

This smart piece explains why the railroads are playing such hardball in trying to minimize worker sick days: it's called precision-scheduled railroading (psr)--a version of two old employer strategies, the speed-up and the stretch-out. nymag.com/intelligencer/… via Intelligencer

The hate for grocery workers, nurses & workers from speakers organized by Sam Liccardo’s dark money group and Mayor Matt Mahan is pretty gross. Guess Matt is going to try to run San Jose the same way Sam did, more division, demonizing and disdain for working people.

📢Congratulations City of City of Oakland! Today #TeamHCD #HousingAccountabilityUnit found Oakland’s housing element in compliance. The collaboration and thoughtfulness in this plan set the stage for meeting the projected housing needs of over 25,000 homes. 🧵

Seems like this should be getting a lot more attention: The A’s are going to be paying ZERO rent in Sacramento! Pretty damn hard for Oakland, which still has debt service on the Coliseum complex, to compete with that kind of sweetheart deal.

New: With record wins at the Big 3; less hostility this time around from management; & an organizing committee of hundreds of employees with relationships with over 90% of the plant, the UAW is poised for a landmark win this week at VW Unpaywalled link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

This is the last week in U.S. history that all foreign-owned Southern auto plants are non-union. The tide is turning. Southern workers are ready to stand up!

BREAKING: Over 4,000 Volkswagen workers in Tennessee just joined the UAW in a landslide. They’re the first American workers to win a union at a non-union car company in decades. This historic victory will change the auto industry, and the future of American labor.

In what is shaping up as a historic union win, the UAW is winning VERY BIG at Volkswagen -- by 78% to 22% -- with around 40% of the vote counted.

The Oakland Arena x Oaklandish collection launches today! We are proud to partner with this amazing company to celebrate Oakland Arena and local love for our community! Get your merch now: oaklandish.com/oaklandarena #Proudtobehere #liveinoakland

Student debt advocates: I am in awe of you. Total outstanding debt has now been reduced for the first time in history from $1.9 trillion in 2020 to $1.6 trillion today, its lowest point since 2015. This is not nearly enough, but it is a big deal. And you made it happen.

One of my favorite things about Walz is his unabashed defense of universal programs and critiques of means-testing. "The haves and the have-nots in the school lunchroom is not a necessary thing. Just feed our children."

According to the AP, we have numbers for just 28% of the vote in Alameda County. If it's not the slowest county in the U.S., it's got to be up there. Not making a value judgment here, but it is certainly notable.

If Republicans won't do town halls, @rokhanna says he will: "Starting March 24th, I will be going to three red districts in California to speak out against DOGE’s mass firings and the Republicans’ Medicaid cuts." prospect.org/politics/2025-…

Another beautiful Oakland morning supporting the people-powered campaign of Barbara Lee for Oakland mayor. We’re knocking on doors to talk to our neighbors about Barbara Lee’s grassroots campaign to unify Oaklanders around a positive vision for a better future — for ALL of us!

Respect to Brad Lander. He had every chance to turn his back on Zohran and he never did. These types of coalitions are how we defeat the authoritarianism in front of us.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.