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DESCRIPTION:Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue\non all 
 sides of these critically important issues! \nInformation, discussion & 
 community! Monday Night Forum!!\n\nEver notice all the HELP WANTED or NOW 
 HIRING signs in windows of service industry establishments — like cafes, 
 restaurant, bars, stores and shops — throughout the Bay Area? The current 
 unemployment rate in San Francisco is 2.3%, its at an all-time historical 
 low. The causes are various, but it's clearly due to the tech boom and 
 astronomically high housing costs\ncreating a massive labor 
 shortage.\n\nBut this situation gives workers an incredible amount of 
 power, which has largely gone untapped. This inquiry draws on 
 participants​' own employment situation, borrowing from Beverly Silver's 
 ideas of workplace power (from her monumental book Forces of Labor), to 
 find ways to leverage this condition — of low unemployment and high 
 demand — to the advantage of the working class.\n\nExamples will be given 
 in the presentation (e.g. ILWU Local 10 here in the Bay Area has both 
 associational power due to its union having a master contract at all 29 
 ports on the West Coast and workplace bargaining power due to ILWU's 
 strategic location at the chokepoint of the docks). We need to identify our 
 power in our workplaces and strategize ways to leverage this power for 
 higher wages, better conditions and social change, which is even more 
 necessary as Trump enables attacks on the working class, especially 
 state-level targeting of immigrants and Muslims. \n\nCome prepared to talk, 
 share your own experiences, analyze all of our living/working conditions 
 here in the Bay Area, and collectively strategize how to fight smarter, 
 stronger — and in order to win!\n\nGifford Hartman is an adult educator, 
 labor trainer, working class historian, and has been a rank-and-file 
 militant in various industries (organized by the SEIU, ILWU and IWW)​,​ 
 and presently teaches EFL/ESL in the unorganized adult education sector. He 
 is a founding member of the Global Supply Chains Study/Research Group, 
 which helps organize conferences and facilitates workshops for logistics 
 workers to "scaffold" each other to a deeper understanding of how work in 
 their various sectors is part of the same production process and how their 
 collective power could be leveraged to strengthen their struggles.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/01/06/18805714.php
SUMMARY:How Bay Area Service Workers Can Gain Power From Tech Boom and Low Unemployment Rate
LOCATION:SEIU Local 2\n215 Golden Gate Avenue near Civic Center BART station\nSan 
 francisco, CA  94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/01/06/18805714.php
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