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Stop The Corruption! No Vote By BCDC Chair & Fisher's Lawyer Zack Wasserman On Fisher A's Stadium 
A press conference was held at the law offices of Zachery Wasserman who is chair of the Bay Conservation Development Commission BCDC and the lawyer for billionaire GAP A's owner John Fisher. He plans to vote on Fisher's Oakland port privatization scheme for a stadium and 3,000 luxury apartments despite his long financial connections with Fisher and his advocacy for this development scheme....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2022 10:25pm PDT
The Israeli Histadrut, The AFL-CIO, Zionism & Labor Imperialism With Carol Lang 
The role of the Israeli Histadrut and the AFL-CIO was the focus of a presentation by CUNY professor Carol Lang. She spoke at a conference of the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations. The AFL-CIO is tied to the racist Israeli Histadrut and has blocked solidarity resolutions for Palestinian people and workers.
AFL-CIO president Liz Schuler and AFT president Randi Weingarten also met with the leadership of the Israeli Labor Party which is in the Israeli government and su...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2022 9:46am PDT
Democracy, General Strikes & Fascism At AFL-CIO With Van Deusen Pres Vermont AFL-CIO 
Vermont AFL-CIO president David Van Deusen reports on the refusal of the AFL-CIO Executive Council to allow his state's resolution for democracy in the AFL-CIO with direct election of the national officers by the rank and file as well as preparing for a general strike against any attempted coup or insurrection....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2022 6:33am PDT
Labor History: A key to unlocking workers' power today 
Online via Zoom
To register: https://bit.ly/FSFD-Labor...
Event Date: Wed, Jun 15, 2022 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2022 8:19pm PDT
WCCUSD Union Busting Attack On Adult School Teachers United Leadership 
The WCCUSD school district terminated the president and vice president of the Adult School Teachers United in a union busting attack. The president Ken Ryan and vice president Kristen Pursley discuss their termination, the reason behind it and the attack on adult education and ESL by not only the District by the Democrats in the legislature and governor....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2022 8:35am PDT
The Wrecking of CCSF & A Frontal Union Busting Attack While AFT 2121 Tops Are Paralysed The CCSF administration and Board of Trustees are quickly liquidating and shutting down CCSF. The AFT 2121 tops are completely paralyzed and unable to fight this open union busting because of their decades of concession bargaining and corporate business union methods. They also refuse to call out the Democratic Party politicians in San Francisco who have gone along with the privatizstion and destruction of CCSF....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2022 10:04pm PDT
War On Public Education, Oakland OEA Teachers Speak Out On School Closures, Privatization 
Two teachers spoke out about Oakland public school closures, privatization, the Parker Elementary School occupation and the role of the OEA/CTA leadership in their struggle....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2022 1:34pm PDT
The AFL-CIO, US Foreign Policy and Worker to Worker Solidarity 
There will be a international education conference in Philadelphia on the collaboration between the AFL-CIO, the CIA, AID and the National Endowment For Democracy around the world. The AFL-CIO and it's "Solidarity Center" which receives $75 million a year from NED has been involved in supporting rightwing corporate unions around the world and helping to overthrow governments that are opposed to US imperialist policies of privatization, deregulation and union busting around the world....
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2022 12:28pm PDT
Labor Activists Launch New Organization to Challenge AFL-CIO Foreign Policy 
The Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations held a founding conference in Washington, DC to expose the role of the AFL-CIO which receives $75 million a year for their "Solidarity Center" and the role of the CIA, NED and AID in colluding with the US government for coups and labor imperialism. They also called for the full opening of the books of the AFL-CIO on their international operations....
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2022 11:47am PDT
Stop Poisoning & Killing Us For Profits! Hunters Point Community Residents Speak Out 
A rally and speak-out was held to support a San Francisco Grand Jury report that said rising bay waters would expose the toxins and radioactive material at Hunters Point to residents and the community. It also attacked the failure of City, State and Federal agencies to do proper oversight of the Lennar condo development and protect the residents. Hunters Point residents and advocates spoke out. Many said this deadly situation was continuing because of profiteering by developers, government ag...
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2022 10:03am PDT
Chaos The Air, Covid-19 & Flight Attendants With AFA Hygienist Judith Anderson 
The growing pandemic has led in part to the recent cancellation of 7,000 flights during 2022 Memorial Day weekend. Many of those cancellations were due to a the growing covid-19 pandemics for flight attendants but the airlines and government refuse to release any figures of how many of these workers are getting Covid. Airline Flight Attendants AFA Industrial Hygienist Judith Anderson talks about the real dangers for flight attendants and passengers as the government and industry try to igno...
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2022 11:24am PDT
Oakland Parker Elementary School Occupation, Charters, SLAP, OEA/CTA, Privatization & Guns 
Parents, students, teachers and community members have occupied Oakland Parker Elementary school to stop it's closure. The OUSD board has voted to close Parker and 10 other schools while opening and expanding charters....
Posted: Mon, May 30, 2022 10:32am PDT
The War On Teachers & Guns: An Oakland Teacher & Iraqi Marine Vet Speaks Out An Oakland teacher and OEA member Gregorio Guiterrez who is also a Iraqi marine veteran speaks out about the efforts to arm and train teachers to deal with gun attacks on schools and defend against the continuing massacres.
This interview was done on May 28, 2022 at Parker Elementary school where an occupation is taking place to stop the school closure and defend the school and public education....
Posted: Sun, May 29, 2022 10:03am PDT
Speakout At Twitter: Musk Get Your Racist Union Busting Hands Off Twitter! 
A rally was held at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco to protest the union busting and racist record of billionaire Elon Musk who is taking over the Twitter platform....
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2022 12:46pm PDT
A Radical Peace Economy We live in a time of real militaristic orgies of war and rearmament, not only in Ukraine, Russia and Yemen, also in the US airbase Ramstein in Rhineland-Palatinate and elsewhere. At the same time, however, and for decades now, a much less noticed war has been taking place: namely, the war against nature on our planet....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2022 11:22am PDT
Oakland Education Association (OEA) Stands Against the Proposed A’s Stadium At Howard Terminal 
The Oakland Education Association has voted to oppose the GAP A's billionaire owner John Fisher's proposed stadium at the Howard Terminal in the Port of Oakland. The Democrats also with the support of the Alameda Labor Council and Alameda Building Trades Union leadership also want to give Fisher $850 million in tax subsidies. The president of the OEA Keith Brown is also the president of the Alameda Labor Council....
Posted: Mon, May 23, 2022 9:58am PDT
Reduced Working Hours: The 24-hour Week There is currently an international trend toward reducing working hours, which is also being driven by politics: In California, a bill is pending in parliament that would reduce working hours in large companies from 40 to 32 hours....
Posted: Mon, May 23, 2022 4:29am PDT
Solidarity With ILWU Local 6 Tartine Workers After NLRB Certification 
A solidarity action was held for Tartine workers after the NLRB certified that ILWU Local 6 had won the election. Supporters went to the 595 Alabama location to build solidarity and talked about their long struggle....
Posted: Sun, May 22, 2022 8:37pm PDT
Italian Workers Strike Against NATO Imperialist War In Ukraine-Report By Si Cobas 
On Friday May 20, 2022, Italian workers from the union Si Cobas and other unions went on strike to oppose the NATO continuing to ship weapons to Ukraine. Roberto Luzzi a representative of Si Cobas talks about the reasons for their strike action against war....
Posted: Sat, May 21, 2022 9:09am PDT
WorkWeek On Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh & SF Education Bond Corruption 
WorkWeek covers the murder of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, San Francisco education bond corruption and the destruction of San Francisico City College...
Posted: Thu, May 19, 2022 10:34pm PDT
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