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DESCRIPTION:Speakers Include:\nKirstin Roberts: Pre-school teacher picket captain and 
 Chicago Teachers Union rank and file activist.*\nSal Rosselli: President of 
 the National Union of Health Care Workers.*  \nLarry Bradshaw:  Third Vice 
 President, Service Employees International Union Local 1021.*\nDavid 
 Russitano, San Francisco teacher, member of United Educators of San 
 Francisco and Educators for a Democratic Union. *\n\n*Organizational 
 affiliations listed for identification only.\n\nFor decades, politicians 
 and bosses have forced working people to accept layoffs, increased 
 healthcare costs, and no job security as a fact of life. Despite the 
 massive fight in Wisconsin, organized labor was unable to turn back the 
 assault on workers' rights. Chicago teachers, however, refused to give in 
 to Rahm Emanuel's attack on labor and public education. Instead, they built 
 solidarity with community activists against racism and inequality. Their 
 nine day strike drove back the school privatization agenda and showed the 
 way for a democratic, fighting union to take on the bosses and politicians 
 of either party. Workers have rediscovered their most important 
 weapons—the strike and solidarity. \n\nThis public forum will feature 
 union members and activists. We'll discuss what the Chicago Teachers Union 
 struggle shows us about the power of working class people to challenge the 
 profit system, hear updates on local union struggles, and ultimately what 
 it will take to rebuild a fighting workers' movement capable of building a 
 better world. \n\nA reception and party will follow the 
 meeting.\n\nSponsored by:\nInternational Socialist Organization \nPlease 
 visit http://www.norcalsocialism.org/ for updates. \nFacebook page: 
 http://www.facebook.com/events/492250364126506/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/17/18723950.php
SUMMARY:CTU Victory: What's Next for Labor
LOCATION:The Redstone Building\n2940 16th Street\n3rd floor Conference Rm\nSan 
 Francisco, CA 94110 \n(near 16th Street BART)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/17/18723950.php
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