The Worker Agency

We’re back, continuing to support the fight for workers' rights, and corporate accountability. Here’s a quick wrap up of some of our team’s work from last week: The LA fires highlight a deep injustice: formerly incarcerated firefighters, who risked their lives battling wildfires for pennies, are barred from using that same experience for a stable career post-release. They deserve pardons. Read more from Alliance for Boys and Men of Color: https://lnkd.in/guDBDCF9 Nearly 20,000 University of California healthcare, tech, and research workers with UPTE-CWA are holding a strike vote due to the UC's refusal to adequately address the staffing crisis. It’s time UC put Californians first. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gxzjSbwh SF public school teachers are holding the line to protect their students and communities against the right-wing agenda. “As educators — people who devote our lives to uplifting the next generations — we find ourselves thrust into an existential fight. The time is now for these crises to be addressed, and we are not about to surrender.” https://lnkd.in/g72sgNn7 In Concord, the City Council is considering rolling back tenant protections that took nearly a decade of organizing to win. Renters deserve stability—not policies that benefit corporate landlords. https://lnkd.in/g4t9Zvqb

"Last year, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong?posted an video?from the Rogers Center in Toronto, showing the East Bay-raised rock star spray painting over the stadium’s Oakland A’s logo with an Oakland Ballers logo. The video, in a way, foreshadowed this week’s news." KQED: https://lnkd.in/gcyQ3FTG

What a great conversation about the solar revolution that's happening in Pakistan!

?? Pakistan’s Bottom-Up Solar Revolution ?? ? In this podcast, David Roberts of Volts speaks with Muhammad Mustafa Amjad, Director Programs at Renewables First and Waqas Moosa, Chairman of the Pakistan Solar Association and CEO at Hadron Solar, about Pakistan’s extraordinary solar boom - nearly 30 GW of solar panels have flooded the country since 2020! ? ? With sky-high electricity tariffs and affordable Chinese solar panels, consumers are driving a bottom-up solar revolution that could become a blueprint for global energy transitions. ???? ? Listen in to understand how Pakistan’s energy landscape is shifting - one rooftop at a time: ??https://lnkd.in/geGjYJbk #SolarEnergy #RenewableEnergy #SolarBoom #EnergyTransition #PakistanEnergy #TheGreatSolarRush #Podcast

Ahead of the Oscars, we supported the Rachel Antell, Stephanie Jenkins, and Jennifer Petrucelli of the Archival Producers Alliance with this Los Angeles Times opinion piece laying out?what could happen when we can no longer trust real images and how they reflect reality: "When we can no longer accurately witness the highs and lows of what came before, the future we share may turn out to be little more than a haphazard remix, too." https://lnkd.in/djTZU5Ua

Over 100 stories so far this week about the UPTE-CWA strike across California.

The influential david roberts spoke with Muhammad Mustafa Amjad of Renewables First and Waqas Moosa with the Pakistan Solar Association about Pakistan's extraordinary solar boom — nearly 30 gigawatts of panels have flooded into the country since 2020! The world hasn't seen anthing like it and what's happening has profound implications for both Pakistan and the rest of the global south. Give it a listen It's a whirlwind of a story about a bottom up energy revolution: https://lnkd.in/geGjYJbk

BIG DAY TOMORROW FOR OUR FIRM! We'll have 3 staffers on the picket line in 3 different cities supporting 20,000+ workers organizing with UPTE-CWA. Workers are walking out in response to multiple ULP violations, as the University of California attempts to?silence whistleblowers?speaking out about the staffing crisis affecting students, patient care, and research. UPTE members have been bargaining for eight months, with all contracts having expired in October 2024. Full info: https://upte.org/support #UnionStrong

We are doing something quite different in California. Do you find it controversial? Some do. But hear us out: We know many boys and men need help to stop relying on ideas of dominance - such as violence, control, and coercion - to assert their masculinity. Prisons and the criminal justice system have proven to be largely ineffective in reducing violence against women. Even still, there’s almost nowhere to turn to for help if you are looking to change your ways, and have a safe relationship. People need options. That’s the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color is bringing the CALL FOR CHANGE Helpline to California. It’s a radical, transformative justice option that’s in high demand. Over the past week, we’ve had two stories published about the helpline’s expansion to California. #HealingTogether https://lnkd.in/ghTfknNf https://lnkd.in/gK77_x5B Gustavo López Jordan Thierry Eric Morrison-Smith

Gustavo Lopez is the research director for Alliance for Boys and Men of Color: “?We need to address the violence by working with men, engaging men as leaders in ending domestic violence.” They wanted to find a solution that didn’t rely on shaming people or entering them into the legal system. “And instead move towards healing options.” https://lnkd.in/ddb4ui5n