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Workers Rights, Workers Lives, Organizing in Silicon Valley

SEIU United Service Workers West 1010 Ruff Dr, San Jose, CA, United States

Millions of workers have come to the Bay Area and Silicon Valley to work and live. The conference will hear from workers who are fighting for union and worker rights in Silicon valley from service workers to tech workers. While billionaires are being made every year in Silicon valley the workers who make their money […]

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Giving Voice: LaborFest Writers’ Anthology 2005-2018

Green Arcade Bookstore 1680 Market St., San Francisco, CA, United States

The collection includes a selection of works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by writers Phyllis Holliday, Margaret Cooley, Keith Cooley, Adele Kearney, Nellie Wong, Jerry Path, and Alice Rogoff. Hear stories about the lives and struggles of laborers, farmers, cooks, cowboys, and coalminers from China, Ireland, Britain, rural Wisconsin, and the Old West. The anthology […]

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Panel – Workplace Racism, Hanging Nooses and Fightback

518 Valencia 518 Valencia, San Francisco, CA, United States

The escalation of open racist attacks is happening not only in our communities but on our jobs. There is a national epidemic of “hanging nooses” and workplace bullying to terrorize African American workers and other workers on the job. At the same time there is systemic racial discrimination in many industries and in the City […]

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