Tour guides at Winchester Mystery House in San Jose will now be represented by Teamsters Local 856. The workers voted for strong union representation to secure higher wages, better benefits, and improved working conditions.

Despite unprecedented attacks on working people throughout 2025 by the Trump administration and its billionaire allies, the labor movement never backed down. Last week was a powerful reminder of what solidarity and organizing can achieve—delivering real wins for workers and their families.

While he didn’t know it at the time, Robert Sandoval was likely destined at an early age to lead Teamsters Local 350 – Sanitary Truck Drivers and Helpers.

His grandfather, Robert Morales, was the executive officer of the union from 1975 until 2015, and his father was a second generation “garbageman”. Morales was a legend within the Teamsters Union and one of its first Latino leaders. 

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.