BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18746071 SEQUENCE:18853862 CREATED:20131107T024400Z DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE\nCHANGE OF VENUE!\n\n This forum\nwill not be meeting in Oakland after all, but in Berkeley. Please note\ncorrect location and address below, as well as added speakers.\n \n\n\n\n\nThe\nBay Area Battle in Transport: \nWorkers Face Employer Onslaught No\nMore \nDefeats Like Wisconsin! Business\nUnionism vs. \nClass Struggle\nUnionism\n\n \n          Public\nMeeting:\n\n November 10 (Sunday)\n2:00 PM \n At: Black Repertory Theater 3201 Adeline Street,\nBerkeley\n \nAlthough\nBART workers marched through downtown Oakland in August and October\nchanting "Strike, strike, strike!", union officials\nshackled them with a concessionary contract. \nWhy did BART\nworkers settle for a concessionary contract after fighting for four\nmonths -- striking twice, staging militant mass rallies in downtown\nOakland, and inspiring AC Transit bus drivers and mechanics to twice\nvote down concessionary contracts -- each time\noverwhelmingly? \n\nWhy did BART workers vote so resoundingly to approve the\nconcessionary contract (more than 85% of those voting voted "Yes")?\nWas this the best they could do? How could they have won a better\ncontract?\nWhy didn't BART union leaders mobilize the rank and\nfile (for example, through democratically elected strike committees?)\nWhy wasn't there a joint strike committee of the BART unions (ATU\n1555, SEIU 1021, and AFSCME 3993) and the AC Transit union (ATU 192)?\nWhy did ATU 192 president Yvonne Williams denounce a joint strike of\nAC Transit workers and BART workers as "Armageddon"? \n\nWhy did BART and AC Transit union officials put their faith\nin Democratic politicians rather than reaching out aggressively to\nlabor and the community? Why did ATU 1555 leaders call on Jerry Brown\nto invoke a 60-day cooling-off period to suspend the right to strike?\nHow can we defend the right to strike for transit workers,\nwhen\nDemocratic state politicians are drafting legislation to make such\nstrikes illegal? \nWhy did ILWU officials turn their backs on\ntheir union's militant history and direct their members to cross a\npicket line of port truckers and community supporters? How can ILWU\nmembers reclaim the solidarity their union badly needs.\nLongshoremen are locked out at two northwest ports. Scabs are doing\ntheir work. And negotiations for the ILWU's master contract\nfor\nall West Coast ports is just around the bend. \nHas the labor\nmovement lost its class struggle moorings?  In its heyday\nunions\nfought for the unemployed and underemployed, for immigrant\nworkers and youth, against racism and home foreclosures. What\ncan be\ndone to ignite such struggle today, forge real solidarity, and beat\nthe bosses' barrage of union busting? \nCome\nhear speakers involved in these worker struggles: \n\n\nGeorge\nFigueroa- Strike Coordinator of the successful July BART\nstrike\nfor ATULocal 1555*, now being victimized by BART.\n\n \nClarence\nThomas- Co-Chair of the\nMillion Worker March, Executive Board\nmember of ILWU 10*A\nMember ATU Local 192* (AC Transit worker)\n\n\nYemane\nSeium, Frank Adams-\nOrganizers, Oakland Port Truckers'\nAssociation*\n\nJack\nHeyman-\nChair of TWSC and an organizer\nof the 1984 longshore anti-apartheid ship boycott,\nthe May Day 2008 anti-war\nWest Coast port shutdown and the 2010 Bay Area ports protest for justice\nfor Oscar Grant\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(*for\nidentification purposes only) \n\n \nThis\nforum is organized by the Transport Workers Solidarity Comittee\n(www.transportworkers.org)\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/11/06/18746071.php SUMMARY:The Bay Area Battle in Transport - Business Unionism vs. Class Struggle Unionism LOCATION:NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE:\nBlack Repertory Theater\n3201 Adeline Street, Berkeley\n URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/11/06/18746071.php DTSTART:20131110T220000Z DTEND:20131111T010000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR