Archiv: Service Employees International Union California (union)


08.06.2025 - 18:43 [ Common Dreams ]

‚This Is What Fascism Looks Like‘: Beloved Labor Leader David Huerta Arrested

In a later update, the union said Huertas—a veteran labor leader whose union represents over 45,000 janitors, airport workers, security guards, and other property service workers—had been released from the hospital where he received treatment for injuries sustained during his arrest, but that he remained in custody.

The union included remarks from Huertas, who said, „We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice.“

„This is about something much bigger“ than his own arrest, said Huertas. „This is about how we as a community stand together and resist the injustice.“

08.06.2025 - 14:23 [ Los Angeles Times ]

ICE arrested a California union leader. Does Trump understand what that means?

“They have woke us up,” Tia Orr told me Saturday morning. She’s the executive director of the 700,000-strong Service Employees International Union California, of which Huerta is a part, and the first African American and Latina to lead the organization.

“And I think they’ve woke people up across the nation, certainly in California, and people are ready to get to action,” she added. “I haven’t seen that in a long time. I don’t know that I’ve seen something like that before, and so yes, it is going to result in action that I believe is going to be historical.”