APALA SF Chapter

From SF to DC, we’ve got to fund our schools and our teachers.

IFPTE Local 21 members are standing in solidarity with United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) on STRIKE DAY 4 by honoring their picket lines. ✊🪧

You can support educators on strike by writing a letter to the school board or taking other actions here:
wecantwait.info/parents/uesf

The San Francisco teachers union and SFUSD agreed to a $183 million deal early Friday that ends the strike after four days on the picket line.

Here’s what you should know about the two-year contract → www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...

📸: Lizzy Montana Myers/For the S.F. Chronicle

We're at Mission High School this morning as SF educators stand up for fully staffed schools and the supports students deserve.

Our members are fighting for the schools their communities deserve, and to get back to their classrooms with a fair contract. ✊ @cftunion.bsky.social

After their first strike in nearly 50 years, educators in San Francisco won a tentative agreement that strengthens staffing, improves special education supports & secures fully funded family healthcare! @cftunion.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u... #PublicSchoolProud

San Francisco can’t wait any longer for the schools their students deserve.

Solidarity with United Educators of San Francisco who are on strike fighting to fix the staffing crisis, improve special education, and better wages and health benefits. One day longer, one day stronger!

Get your No ICE cookies at Devil's Teeth Baking Company in San Francisco! All proceeds from cookies go to Community Action Netork Minnesota. Also, buy other goodies available from this small business. #NoICE

www.devilsteethbakingcompany.com/visit

“I’ll never forget my government treating me like this. I really hope this will never happen to anybody else because of the way they look, if they look like the enemy of our country.” - Fred Korematsu

UPDATE: The U.S. Senate just voted NO on a bill that would've given ICE and DHS $370 million in new funding — a clear response to the public outcry against ICE's terror campaign in Minnesota.

This is a step in the right direction, but the fight is not over yet.

A message from our union’s president, Bianca Polovina, of solidarity with our immigrant communities and the everyday people who are bravely standing up to the brutality and injustices of ICE.

We must keep showing up to observe, to document, to protest. An injury to one is an injury to all.

The Senate will soon vote on a bill that will pump millions in new funding into ICE and DHS – allowing them to expand detention and deportation efforts and increase violence against everyday people. We cannot let this bill pass. The vote could happen as soon as tomorrow, so take action with us now ⬇️

An image featuring five-year-old Liam Ramos boarding an ICE vehicle, overlaid with the text 'Children should be at school, not detention centers.' Logo of National Education Association visible in the corner. Image courtesy of Columbia Heights Public Schools.

We are witnessing a federal occupation of an American city, carried out through intimidation, fear, and violence at the expense of our children, students, and families. ICE does not belong in our schools or communities. #IceOutSchools

👀 Our San Francisco union hall has a new banner out front! We’re taking the Overpaid CEO Act into our street and hoping this gets everyone’s attention walking by.

Will you standupforsf.com?

We tried to post a video to TikTok in solidarity with immigrants. After receiving multiple errors while attempting to post the video, it’s still not being shown to users. And we are not alone.

This is a dangerous time for our democracy and we can’t allow our social media apps to silence us.

AFL-CIO Mourns Killing of Minneapolis Union Member, Reiterates Calls for ICE to Leave Minnesota: The AFL-CIO mourns the senseless killing of another Minneapolis resident by federal agents. Alex Jeffrey Pretti was a VA intensive care unit nurse and a member of AFGE Local 3669—a brother in our union family. Our thoughts are with Alex’s loved ones, his union siblings, and the people of Minneapolis at this devastating time. As tens of thousands of Minnesotans made clear peacefully and powerfully yesterday, the Trump administration’s horrific operation—and their actions aimed at stoking violence and chaos—must end. America’s unions join the call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed. We demand local authorities conduct a full, transparent investigation that will lead to accountability for this tragic and violent act, and for Congress to use its power to hold ICE accountable.

America’s unions mourn the senseless killing by federal agents of our AFGE Local 3669 union brother and VA nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO

We had a great time at the 23rd Annual SF Parol Lantern Festival - “MAKIBAKA: Ignite the Fight, Light Up Our Legacy” presented by the Filipino-American Development Foundation with support of SOMA Pilipinas! Isang Bagsak! 👏
@kaygenn.bsky.social
@pinoyamerican.bsky.social
#parollaternfestival

We stand in solidarity with the members of United Teachers of Richmond and Teamsters 856 on strike today! Tomorrow, IFPTE Local 21 joins you on the line. ✊ #1u

📷 Photos by Brooke Anderson

IFPTE Local 21 members are on sympathy STRIKE for the schools our students deserve! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

We’re proud to join our union siblings on the UTR and Teamsters 856 strike lines! Public school employee working conditions are student learning conditions. Solidarity forever! 💙✊

📸: Brooke Anderson

APALA (Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO) seeks an Executive Director. Location is flexible (work can be performed from anywhere in the continental United States). Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @apalasf.bsky.social

Graph titled "Online slurs against Mamdani surged leading up to and following his NYC Mayoral Win."

For South Asian and Muslim Americans nationwide, Zohran Mamdani's historic win for Mayor of New York City is a huge milestone in political representation. Sadly, it has also triggered a backlash of anti-South Asian hate and Islamophobia.

Here’s what you need to know. ⬇️🧵

On the final day of #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth, we share the history of Isang Bagsak, otherwise known as the Unity Clap. IFPTE Local 21 is proud to carry this legacy forward. When one of us rises, we all rise!

Voice-over performed by IFPTE Local 21 member JR Santos.

Today we honor #LarryItliong, a fearless Filipino American labor leader whose vision and courage helped ignite the farmworker movement. His story reminds us of what is possible when communities come together for fairness and dignity on the job.

We must pass it to protect our communities and our healthcare. Prop 50 gives voters the power to approve temporary maps and protect our future. #YESonca50

It's #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth ☀️✊️ and it is a critical time for the AANHPI community to participate in our democracy.

We joined the SF Labor Council the last couple weekends to get out the vote for #YESon50 in California! 🗳

@californialabor.bsky.social

Video Firings of immigration judges are 'politically motivated': Union president IFPTE union president Matt Biggs discusses the impact that the Trump administration's firing of immigration judges is having on the court system.

"Whether this Administration likes it or not, immigrants in this country are entitled to due process. When they don't get a fair shake from an independent judge in immigration court, they're being denied due process." — Matt Biggs, President of IFPTE @ifpte.bsky.social

YouTube video by W.K. Kellogg Foundation Kent Wong on Solidarity: action

UFW mourns the passing of our brother Kent Wong. Please watch Kent speak in beautiful short video connecting his time with UFW to his view of the importance of solidary across labor and race and cultural backgrounds.

 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODkU...

October is Filipino American History Month! ✊

We’re proud to call the Filipino Cultural Heritage District home for our San Francisco union hall. We encourage you to check out a new exhibit at YBCA titled "MAKIBAKA: A Living Legacy" ybca.org/event/makibaka-a-living-legacy

Health Policy Changes for Covered California Enrollees - End of enhanced financial help for enrollees to afford coverage, doubling or even tripling premium costs: December 31, 2025 - Shorter open enrollment period: 2027 Open Enrollment Period, which begins November 1, 2026 - End of auto-renewals, requiring enrollees to submit more verification information: December 31, 2027

🚨 @coveredca.bsky.social enrollees: Your premiums are about to DOUBLE in 2026 without Congressional action. And Trump & Republicans’ H.R. 1 bill is only going to make accessing care harder. Here are some upcoming changes that @coveredca.bsky.social for enrollees should be aware of:

- Stop the attacks on immigrants, Black, indigenous, trans people, and all our communities.

- Invest in people not wars.

- Stop the billionaire takeover corrupting our government.

- Protect and defend Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs for working people.

- Fully funded schools, and healthcare and housing for all.