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BREAKING: @ChickfilA workers in Ventura, CA are ON STRIKE.

After our co-worker began organizing to end the illegal wage theft at this location, Chick Fil A fired her.

Not on our watch. We demand the reinstatement of our co-worker. #UnionsForAll
This comes after @CAGovernor signed #AB257 to create a Fast Food Council for over half a million workers like us

Billion dollar fast food corps aren't publicly prepared to obey the law, they're spending millions to overturn it and take away our seat at the table. Enraging!
"As soon as I started working @ChickfilA - I noticed that they didn't give us our legally required 10-minute breaks. They told me that it doesn't exist here... When I started talking about our rights and organizing my colleagues. They fired me." Elizabeth Arellano Sign that says Chick Fil A stop the retaliation
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BREAKING: After workers organize strikes at over 350 restaurants across the state, California’s State Senate has passed #AB257

Today is a watershed moment in the history of the labor movement; 550,000 fast food workers in CA will soon have a seat at the table with our employers
After a concurrence vote in the Assembly, AB 257 heads to @CAGovernor’s desk for signature.

The Fast Food Council would give over half a million workers a seat at the table on issues like wages, health & safety, the right to be free from discrimination & harassment & more.
@CAgovernor AB 257 will create a 10 member council with two worker representatives, two worker advocates, one member from @CA_DIR, one from @CAgovernor's Office of Business and Economic Development, two representatives of franchisors, and two representatives of franchisees.
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🚨A motorcycle club just shut down a major road for farmworkers' ability to unionize. THAT'S solidarity with @ufwupdates!

Sign #ab2183, @GavinNewsom!
When the California labor movement says if we don't get it, shut it down, we mean it! #AB257 #AB2183 A motorcycle club wearing Chicano Style vests shut downs an
Yall can keep your fake TV shows about bikers running guns and drugs that keep being based in Stockton. We got a real club riding side by side farmworkers and supporters and shutting down roads along the way. Put THAT on a Netflix series! #AB2183
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HAPPENING NOW: Poor and low-income people from all over the western US are coming together in LA to speak out as we head towards the Mass Assembly in D.C. on June 18.

#PoorPeoplesCampaign
While we're marching, here are some important facts: if California were its own country, it would represent the fifth-largest economy in the world, and yet more than half of California’s residents are poor and low-income.

#PoorPeoplesCampaign
In L.A. County alone, a single individual would need to make three times the poverty threshold to meet basic expenses like housing, child care, health care, and transportation.

#PoorPeoplesCampaign
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Threads on Leticia's and her coworkers fights at @jackbox
"I know that the issues we faced at my restaurants are in many others in CA. I know there are workers right now who are not getting their breaks, who are having some of their wages stolen.I know that we need #AB257" Leticia Reyes

Read about AB 257: fastfoodjusticeahora.com #CAleg
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