@labwc.bsky.social
Black workers fighting for racial equity and labor justice in Los Angeles! ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Become a member or donate today 💯
What does solidarity look like to you in the height of this current administration? ✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽 ✊🏼 ✊🏻
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💼 Are looking to jumpstart a new career this summer? 🚀
Join us for the next Ready 2 Work: Leaders on the Rise (25+) orientation on Wednesday, July 16th happening in the LABWC Event Space!
🔗 To register for an orientation, click the link below:
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🏳️🌈 We celebrate Senator Laphonza Butler, a community organizer, former SEIU Local 2015 president, and the first openly Black LGBTQ+ member of the U.S. Senate.
She fought on the behalf of ALL Californians, no matter their race, gender, sexuality or income!
When Black workers fight, we win.
Happy Juneteenth!
19.06.2025 11:00 — 👍 4912 🔁 1203 💬 85 📌 27✨ Spotlight: Zee Zentino ☘️
Huge congratulations to our phenomenal member leader Zee Zetino (they/them) who was recently featured in How Birds Bring Us Back, an Inland Empire short film spotlighting Black naturalists in Southern California!
Full video here:
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We refuse to remain silent while harm is being inflicted on our communities. We will continue to organize, resist, and build a future rooted in care, justice, and collective safety.
-The Los Angeles Black Worker Center
With righteous anger, grief, perhaps some fear, and with unwavering power and loving solidarity, we remain committed to protecting Black workers and all of our migrant siblings as we resist the terror being inflicted on our communities.
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ICE raids and the associated police/military presence have wreaked havoc upon our communities. This weekend, we learned that dozens of our siblings, including garment workers and car wash workers, were captured, and many have not yet been released or given due process.
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LABWC is committed to moving in solidarity with Black migrant workers, all of our migrant sibling worker centers, and all of our impacted neighbors.
ICE raids and the associated police/military presence have wreaked havoc upon our communities.
🙌🏿 We continue to fight for ALL Black workers and empower us to stand together against discrimination and injustice in the workplace and in society.
Join the Black worker liberation movement and connect with an organizer today! ✊🏿
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The CRC upheld the belief that liberation of Black women is necessary along with the dismantling of political-economic systems. With this, Black women can be recognized as invaluable human beings especially in the workforce— the same mission that continues today.
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🏳️🌈 We celebrate Barbara Smith, a Black, Feminist, LGBTQ+ icon and co-founder of Combahee River Collective (CRC) in the 1970s.
⛓️💥 The CRC was a Black feminist collective that challenged racism in the feminist movement and sexism and homophobia within the Civil Rights Movement.
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈
01.06.2025 04:00 — 👍 1232 🔁 301 💬 13 📌 27If you’d like to join the fight for Black Worker Justice become a member of the LABWC here!
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Back out at Los Angeles City Hall!
01.05.2025 16:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Poster announcing May Day March
📣MAY DAY. TOMORROW. SEE YOU 🫵 IN THE STREETS.📣
01.05.2025 00:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0UPDATE on @mayor.lacity.gov's budget cuts:
Check out these recent headlines about Karen Bass's disastrous budget. This is what happens when you give all of our money to LAPD!
Pie chart that shows the Mayor's Proposed $3,311,689,932 police budget 56% of the pie relates to salaries at $1.86 billion or 56% followed pensions taking 18% of the pie chart at $594 million Category FY2025-26 Salaries $1,860,212,019 56.2% Pensions and Retirement $594,277,264 17.9% Human Resources Benefits $423,844,673 12.8% Other Dept. Related Costs $142,889,202 4.3% Expenses $103,702,986 3.1% Cap. Improve $47,085,588 1.4% Liability Claims $46,942,069 1.4% Building Services $30,879,779 0.9% Equipment $23,811,038 0.7% Other Allocations $23,236,542 0.7% Water and Electricity $14,808,772 0.4%
🚔 MAYOR'S PROPOSED LAPD BUDGET $3,311,689,932 🚔
~40% of General Fund
~47% of Discretionary Funds
👮 10,600 officers
🧑🦱 2,852 civilians (after 403 layoffs)
🚁 2 helicopters
🚗 376 vehicles
Changes include:
⬆️$19M Sworn Payroll
⬇️$17M Civilian Payroll
⬆️$23M Liability Claims
OUR ULP STRIKE IS ON. 🔥 LA County has disrespected us for far too long and we're uniting to say NO MORE. Starting on Monday (4/28), County workers will rise up in a historic Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike to demand an end to LA County's labor law violations.
26.04.2025 21:10 — 👍 45 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 2📢TELL THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD THIS IS UNION TERRITORY📢 @seiu721.bsky.social ON STRIKE! ✊
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LA County workers holding banner that says “LA County Workers on ULP Strike”
⚡STRIKE ALERT⚡ Solidarity with our LA County Workers and SEIU 721 siblings on strike! #1u
28.04.2025 23:12 — 👍 72 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0
Local 148 stands with @seiu721.bsky.social as they prepare to strike! SEIU represents 55,000 LA County Employees, including the LOSAs, Clerks, IT, Interpreters, Administrative Assistants, and Techs that we work with every day at the Public Defender’s Office…(1/2)
28.04.2025 15:03 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
“Clearly, [LA County] thought they were above the law. They thought we would never strike. They thought wrong.”
SEIU 721 President & Exec. Director David Green calls out LA County for their disrespect & lawbreaking. We won't take it anymore. #ULPStrike
The people’s champ and member of 721 speaking to the press about what is happening today
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We’re stronger together @seiu721.bsky.social
29.04.2025 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#SEIU721
29.04.2025 17:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pathways to public sector employment is critical in building stronger Black economic power.
If you’d like to stay up-to-date on Ready 2 Work orientations, upcoming events, and get involved with building Black worker power, join the LABWC email list!
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But after forming positive relationships with the R2W mentors, he took the program seriously and saw the tremendous value and opportunity the Ready 2 Work program offers.
Now, Andra has a thriving career with the City of LA, and plans to retire by 45!
💫 Meet Ready 2 Work Graduate Andra Lewis! 💫
After graduating high school, Andra was looking for a fulfilling career and did not want to work a short-term job in fast food or retail. When Andra first started the Ready 2 Work program, he was skeptical of the program.
