The US & Global Fight Against Privatization & Outsourcing

The destruction of our public services and privatization of public education is a serious issue for all working people. The US Post Office, Social Security, the FAA, NRC, and many other Federal and State agencies are threatened with privatization and outsourcing.
In San Francisco, the privatization of SF City jobs and the outsourcing of public jobs at UCSF and UC is an ongoing battle for workers and their unions.
This conference will discuss how workers from all public service unions can come together for education and a national political education campaign to stop privatization and outsourcing.
This is not just a US issue but a critical issue as well for working people throughout the world. The world corporate economic institutions, including the IMF and World Bank, both controlled by the US government, have demanded that countries privatize their public services and deregulate their economies in order to get loans.
In Mexico under NAFTA the maquiladors have been used to outsource jobs from the United States to slave labor wages in the 1500 factories on the border and to Baja where 70,000 farm worker and their families try to survive on $7 dollars a day.

This conference will have reports on privatization and outsourcing in San Francisco, the US, and around the world.
Speakers will include Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10 past Secretary Treasurer; Cheryl Thornton, SEIU 1021 Member; Lisa Milos, CWA UPTE UCSF; Carlos Taboada from DPEN; Brad Wiedmaier SEIU 2015; Mehmet Bayran, CWA PMWG; Susana Prieto Terrazas and Joel Ramírez from Montomoros, Mexico; Carmen Mata from Sindicato Independiente Nacional Democrático Jornaleros Agrícolas, Mexico.