Houston YALL, Young Active Labor Leaders

07/10/2026

Please consider going out to show your support!!!

07/08/2026

ICE IS AT IT AGAIN! Another innocent life plucked away from this earth. Let US keep his name alive!! Lorenzo Salgado Araujo!!!

07/02/2026

Show your support, join your union brothers and sisters on the picket!

Thursday, July 2
5 – 10pm CDT

Moses Lake RV & Storage
3902 TX-146
Texas City, TX 77590

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https://www.mobilize.us/txaflcio/event/979891/

06/26/2026

Texas City Metal Trades Council, AFL-CIO
IUOE 564 | IBEW 527 | UA 211 | IAM 776

STRIKE EFFECTIVE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2026 AT 6:30 PM

🔵 METAL TRADES MEMBERS — STRIKE NOTICE 🔵

70 skilled workers represented by the Texas City Metal Trades Council, AFL-CIO — IUOE Local 564, IBEW Local 527, UA Local 211, and IAM Local 776 — at Ashland Specialty Chemicals in Texas City will be on strike beginning Wednesday, June 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM.

Our members voted to reject the company's contract and authorize this strike because Ashland Specialty Chemicals:

• Is forcing employees — including Operators — to perform work outside their craft, creating serious safety risks for our members and the surrounding community

• Is proposing to slash the paid sick time our members have earned over decades of bargaining. Under the company’s offer, the most senior employees — skilled workers who have given this plant twenty and thirty years of service — would see their sick time cut from weeks down to a handful of hours. That is less sick time than the company provides to its own salaried staff. Sick time is not a perk; in a plant that handles hazardous chemicals, a worker who is too ill to be sharp has no business on the unit, and no one should be forced to choose between a paycheck and the safety of the people working beside them. These benefits were won at the bargaining table, one contract at a time, by the workers who built the safety culture this plant runs on. We will not hand them back.

• Is outsourcing the storeroom to eliminate union jobs and replace bargaining unit members with outside contractors

The Union has negotiated in good faith with the company since June 1st. The Union has bent and can bend no more.

This company committed multiple Unfair Labor Practices during negotiations — charges have been filed with the NLRB Region 16. This is an Unfair Labor Practice Strike.

Picket Line: Attwater Ave & Hwy 146, Texas City 77590
Honor our line. Share this post. Stand with skilled workers.

Staging area is Moses Lake RV & Storage
3902 HWY 146
Texas City, TX 77590

📞 Media contact: Lewis Crawford, Business Agent, IUOE Local 564 — Lead Negotiator, Texas City Metal Trades Council, AFL-CIO (IUOE 564 / IBEW 527 / UA 211 / IAM 776)



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04/01/2026

Every worker deserves a path to full citizenship. Join the Tejano Center and GHIRP in supporting our immigrant siblings at this free N-400 naturalization workshop. April 7th in Pasadena. Walk-ins welcome. Share with anyone who needs it.

04/01/2026

ICE has kidnapped 3 of our union siblings IBEW Local 60, IBEW Local 520, and TSEU/CWA 6186 members!

We must act on these attacks the working class is facing and organize within our unions to demand release of our siblings.

If you can please donate to their fundraiser links on slide 2! An injury to one is an injury to all.

02/27/2026

🧊🚨 ICE in Texas kidnapped two union electricians, Brian and Keyla—help us bring them home!

⚡️Brian is a refugee from Columbia and proud IBEW member. He was kidnapped by ICE last week during a routine asylum check. Brian has an asylum hearing scheduled for March 4th in Pearsall, TX, next door to Dilley Detention Center. The judge has an 84% denial rate. Without public pressure, he is likely to lace deportation. His tamily is seeking financial support for legal fees and daily expenses while Brian is detained.

⚡️Keyla immigrated from Honduras to the US. She became an electrician with IBEW Local 60, supporting ner mother and two children. Early this year, ICE kidnapped Keyla while her application for residency was in process. She is currently being held at Karnes Detention Center in Karnes City, Texas. Her last court date was on February 17th. Keyla requires support for legal fees.

Keyla's Gofundme https://www.gofundme.com/f/bring-our-union-sister-home

Brian's Gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-Brian-IBEW-Brother

01/19/2026

Happy MLK Day to workers everywhere.

In the spirit of this day, Houston YALL is issuing a clear statement, consistent with the AFL-CIO: kidnapping, extrajudicial seizure, arbitrary detention, murder and state violence must never be normalized as policy — abroad or here at home.

We stand for working families, workers’ rights, due process, and the rule of law. When people are treated as disposable, working people lose safety, stability, and power.

Imperial ambition has real consequences. After the seizure of President Nicolás Maduro, President Trump said the U.S. would “run the country.” We reject any doctrine that treats sovereign nations as property and working people as collateral damage.

We have seen this pattern before. Intervention so often means labor repression — imprisonment, disappearance, assassination, exile, and the crushing of organizers. Guatemala and Chile are just two of numerous examples.

And it is happening here too. On January 7, 2026, an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis during an immigration operation. In the wake of that killing, the DHS’s “Operation Metro Surge” has involved warrantless arrests, excessive force, and constitutional violations. No one should die — or have their rights trampled — under the pretense of immigration enforcement.

This climate hurts workers and their families.
Recent policy choices also harm families. DHS has moved to terminate TPS protections for Venezuelans (including the Venezuela 2021 designation), stripping stability and work authorization from families and deepening fear and exploitation.

It should be obvious that this is not an endorsement of Nicolás Maduro or his government. It is a principled labor stance against repression and for sovereignty, due process, safety, and solidarity — because workers’ rights depend on it.

11/07/2025

🌟 Introducing HTX YALL (Young Active Labor Leaders – Houston)! 🌟

We’re rebuilding and relaunching a space for young, pro-labor, Houston-area workers to plug in, learn, and lead. ✊🏽

HTX YALL will be a place to:

- connect young union members and worker leaders across Houston,

- build real skills (organizing, communications, political action),

- support local labor campaigns, and

- grow the next generation of labor leadership in our city.

We’ve just elected our leadership team and we’re already getting plugged into campaigns and coalitions to support workers — but we need your support!

👉 Drop a comment or DM us if you want to get involved, collaborate with us, add folks to the list, or get the details on our next meeting.

Sign up for YALL here:
bit.ly/yallsignup

Houston works because workers do. Let’s build something powerful together. ❤️⚙️💪