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DESCRIPTION:How Solidarity Can Win\n\nCome hear how a fighting rank and file led union 
 caucus was able to win a contract victory, an entire union election slate, 
 a legal victory against felony charges, and all the while taking public 
 anti-imperialist and anti-racist stands in the struggle to: \n-	Support 
 Palestine, consistently marching in the streets to stop Israeli assaults, 
 free political prisoners, and put an end to apartheid and 
 colonization.\n-	For free and democratic elections in Haiti; members, 
 including President Andre Francois, are active in the Haitian liberation 
 party Fanmi Lavalas of Boston\n-	Support the Black Lives Matter movement, 
 bringing out their members and providing sound trucks for 
 demonstrations\nFour of the victorious, Boston School Bus Drivers, members 
 of the winning Team Solidarity slate, will talk about their fighting 
 strategies, as part of their west coast tour.\n\nAfter more than two years 
 of hard-fought struggle, last year the militant, fighting Team Solidarity 
 of the Boston School Bus Drivers Union — ¬United ¬Steelworkers Local 
 8751 — won a historic victory against global giant Veolia/Transdev, one 
 of the most notorious capitalist union busters, as well as ¬Boston Public 
 School bosses and Mayor ¬Marty Walsh.\n\nSolidarity is key to the Boston 
 school bus drivers’ success. “Team Solidarity” has been building 
 power among the working class through a 40+ year commitment to militant 
 unionism, racial justice, disability justice, LGBT*Q rights, and 
 anti-imperialist struggle including solidarity with Palestine.\n\nUSW 8751 
 is a rank and file union with roots in the antiracist struggles of the 
 1970s and the desegregation of Boston schools in 1974. Today the union is 
 98% people of color, mostly Haitian and Cape Verdean immigrants and African 
 American, Latin@ and Asian. \nA commitment to LGBT*Q rights: The very first 
 contract of USW 8751 in 1977 had domestic partner benefits. The contract 
 extended medical insurance, life insurance and all other benefits to 
 partners of drivers in a “marital-like relationship”. This past year 
 USW 8751 invited national trans* justice organizers to write the language 
 around trans* inclusion and LGBT*Q rights which appears in the new 
 contract.\n\nUSW 8751 consistently stands and puts bodies on the line with 
 those who are struggling — against police terror, against gentrification, 
 and in solidarity with other workers, students, indigenous communities, 
 immigrants, disability activists, and all who are oppressed.\nEndorsed by: 
 Haiti Action Committee, Workers World Party\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/07/18/18789244.php
SUMMARY:Solidarity Works San Francisco: Boston School Bus Drivers West Coast Tour
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco\n1187 Franklin St. 
 Kincaid Room\n38R bus from Montgomery BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/07/18/18789244.php
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