Two independently produced videos will explore San Francisco labor movement history and current efforts to protect the Redstone Labor Temple (yet again!) from redevelopers and keep it as a community […]
Presented by Robbin Henderson Matilda Rabinowitz’s memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her […]
Mike Stout has spent his life rocking the world with his music. Based in Pittsburgh, he is known as the “World’s Grievance Man” and his music has a powerful punch. […]
The deregulation of taxi workers began in San Francisco during the 1970’s. It has escalated with the introduction of tech platforms for Uber and Lyft, which have allowed the massive […]
The SAG-AFTRA san Francisco-Northern California Local in conjunction with LaborFest presents: The Performance of Public Speaking Join us for a presentation on how to engage audiences and the media. SAG-AFTRA […]
This commemorative event honors the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco State Strike. What are the lessons of that strike for today when students have to go into debt to […]
Directed by Lixin Fan (China) When this documentary was made 8 years ago, the number of the migrant workers from rural area of China to big cities were 130 […]
FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Anne Lewis This new film by Anne Lewis and associate producer Laura Vare, A Strike and an Uprising, illuminates […]
With Peter O’Driscoll (IBEW), Lawrence Shoup (UAW-NWU) There are many stories about labor struggles in San Francisco. The walk will focus on the maritime industry from 1835 until the burning […]
Videos and Presentation The privatization of public services, transportation, and education is a threat not only to unions but to the public in the U.S. and globally. This forum will […]
Living History re-creates the 1901 Waterfront Strike that paralyzed San Francisco for five months. From July 13 to October 2, 1901, San Francisco’s waterfront was shut down by sailors,Teamsters, and […]
With Peter O’Driscoll and Harvey Smith In the past few years, there has been a growing community effort to defend the Coit Tower murals from leaking water and to stop […]
By Donna T. Haverty-Stacke The 1934 Minneapolis Teamster general strike coincided with the San Francisco General Strike. After the Minneapolis strike, the government, the companies and more conservative union officials […]
5:45 PM Boarding, 6:00 PM Departure Boat leaves promptly at 6:00 PM Please arrive 30 minutes before the boarding time. Tour lasts 3 hours A complimentary meal will be provided, […]
Airbnb has had a profound effect not just in San Francisco but around the world. For cities, it has turned neighborhoods into hotel districts. One example of the role of […]
San Francisco Bay Area is ground zero for the world tech transformation from platforms at Uber and Lyft to social media networks like Facebook and search engines like Google. The […]
Presentation and Discussion of Sol Nitzberg:Sponsored by California Historical Society Join Barry Nitzberg, grandson of tar-and-feathering victim Sol Nitzberg, and historian Ken Kann, for a retrospective on early farm labor […]
Whistleblowers on the job are under attack. This forum will hear from whistleblowers about their struggle to defend health and safety and the public. Their actions are taking place in […]
FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Matthew Warchus (UK) The unity of workers and oppressed minorities is the story of Pride. In a successful effort […]
Labor Woman of the Year Award - Juana Flores, Executive Director, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, Labor Man of the Year Award - Arnulfo De La Cruz, Executive Vice President, SEIU […]
The Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus presents a history of immigration, told through the lens of family and policy and illustrated by songs old and new. Chorus members will share their […]
FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Jea-Pierre Thorn (France) 50th Anniversary of May-June General Strike France In the middle of the May-June French General Strike […]
With Harvey Smith This walk will explore the “New Deal nexus” in Berkeley that includes Berkeley High School, the Community Theater, Civic Center Park, Post Office art, the old UC […]
With Gifford Hartman, David Duckworth During this walking tour, we visit several sites, which were integral to the unfolding of events following a bomb explosion on Steuart Street at Market […]
French Social Movements: There have been ongoing rail strikes, major demonstrations, and university occupations protesting Macron’s government’s attacks. Come to a skype presentation by trade unionists from the Fraction l’Etincelle […]
FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Matthew Warchus (UK) The unity of workers and oppressed minorities is the story of Pride. In a successful effort […]
With Harvey Schwartz Harry Bridges, the Australian-born founding president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, was hounded by government investigations, hearings, and trials from 1934 to 1955. As the […]
Book reading by Jonathan Karmel Writer and labor lawyer Jonathan Karmel has written a book about the cost to workers and their families of the lack of health and safety […]
Slavery, observed Frederick Douglass, is a “hydra-headed monster.” In California this monster appeared and reappeared as if shape-shifting. The history of slavery in California unsettles the North/South view of American […]
Sharat Lin is an international labor researcher looking at the lessons of the Spanish Mondagron Cooperative system. He reports on how it works and how workers who are using their […]
American-Swedish trade unionist Jordin Williams will discuss how workers are organized across the Nordic spectrum: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark. He will give a Powerpoint presentation to discuss labor […]
FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Directed by Jeffrey Gould This film by Jeffrey Gould, a history professor at the University of Indiana, looks at an important […]
Part of the so-called American Dream is the notion that if you work hard and get a good education you will make a decent living. However, many of our most […]
The dystopian world we live in will be challenged by words and music that will bring solidarity and unity of all working people. Poets: Mahnaz Badihian, Lisbit Bailey, Kristina Brown, […]
FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival Reserve Slaves (Schiavi di Riserva) 2018 (30 min.) Italy Directed by Michelangelo Severgnini The result of the U.S./European attack on Libya […]
Directed by Imre Azem, 2018 (53 min.) Turkey. Four following years the Gezi Resistance, great political and social changes were instituted in Turkey. Director İmre Azem follows four people striving for […]
Thousands of drivers now come into San Francisco and other cities on the coast to drive for Uber and Lyft. These workers are forced to leave their homes because they […]
Meet at the fountain in Latham Square, at the intersection where Telegraph and Broadway converge, across from the Rotunda Building (Oakland City Center/12th St. BART). With Gifford Hartman of the […]
Walk with David Schooley Labor unionists and environmentalists both confront the same commercial interests. In 1968, David Schooley chained himself to a bulldozer at the foot of the San Bruno […]
Walk with Brad Wiedmaier, SEIU 2015 member & architectural historian San Francisco has a rich political and labor history that is also connected to its buildings. In this historyby- the-buildings […]
Registration: 9:30 AM The survival of public education is now at stake in California and throughout the country. Trump’s Secretary of Education Betsy Devos is continuing the complete privatization of […]
Labor musician and political satirist Charlie King will sing about the struggle of working people in the age of Trump. Pete Seeger nominated Charlie for the Sacco- Vanzetti Social Justice […]
Workers Rights has no borders and the struggle and lives of Palestinian workers are the focus of this forum. Palestinian journalists have been targeted by Israeli snipers in increasing numbers. […]
San Francisco actor and writer Howard Petrick takes a look at the 1934 Minneapolis general strike through the eyes of one of its leaders, V.R. Dunne. The Minneapolis Teamster General […]
