David Denton Borough started his career as a professional musician and joined the AFM in 1979 while also working as a land surveyor (and a member of the Operating Engineers Union). He plays the guitar and the “old time fiddle” and is proud that music has been a major feature of his entire adult life.

UFCW-represented REI workers, including those organized by Local 5 in Berkeley and Santa Cruz, continue their three-year effort to win a first contract in the face of a pervasive anti-union company effort that has resulted in nearly 50 NLRB Unfair Labor Practice charges.

The $533.4 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System is taking a stronger stance on diversity, equity and inclusion with its new 2025 proxy-voting guidelines, reports Rob Kozlowski.

Following a nearly unanimous strike authorization vote, more than 10,000 UFCW members at Lucky, Save Mart and Food Maxx stores throughout California, including 3500 represented by Local 5, ratified new contracts in December.

Laurie Mesa is a San Jose-based Area Director for UFCW Local 5. She is responsible for guiding the activities of union representatives in the local’s largest geographical area with more than 7000 members who work at grocery stores and other retailers in Santa Clara County.

After a nearly two-year long organizing campaign and a contentious contract fight more than 4000 graduate workers at Stanford University have secured their first collective bargaining agreement.

South Bay Labor Council delegates have elected ATU 265 President Raj Singh and San Jose Firefighters Union Local 230 President Jerry May to fill vacant positions on the Council’s Executive Board.

After nearly six months of bargaining backed up by union member solidarity and store-site actions that included a three-day unfair labor practice strike at seven stores in Los Angeles and Orange County, California UFCW members have overwhelmingly approved a new contract with CVS.

When Bob Prola graduated from college, he thought he had to get a job in the business world, he says, so he got into the insurance business. He quickly discovered that it wasn’t for him and that he had to find a career that made a positive impact and wasn’t “soul sucking”.

When Will Smith first joined IBEW Local 332 as an apprentice inside wireman in 1999, he recalls that his uncle, a Sheet Metal Local 104 member, told him “Work hard, learn your trade, listen to the journeyman, give back to your union and maybe, one day you will be a union rep.”