More and more public jobs are being siphoned off to non-profits. These workers are paid 30% to 50% less than public workers and in some cases work with City workers doing the same work.

1934 San Francisco General Strike walk - by Gifford Hartman.
Eighty-nine years ago, a great battle took place between striking workers and the police and National Guard along the waterfront alongside the piers of San Francisco’s Embarcadero.

From the pre-urban history of Indian Slavery to the earliest 8-hour day movement in the U.S., the ebb and flow of class war is traced.

Journalist and publisher Julian Assange has been imprisoned in the UK for charges of espionage in the US for publishing WikiLeaks and faces extradition to the US,  and this is a threat to all journalists.

SF Mime Troupe's opening day for the this year's new play “Breakdown”
For most of the citizens of increasingly intolerant San Francisco a young woman like Yume living on the streets seems “crazy”

Photo exhibit "Who Built The Bay" with Iconic labor photographer Joseph Blum. Join labor process photographer Joseph Blum as he talks about the work he has done or decades to show the labor of construction workers who built the Bay Area. At: Charlie's Cafe, 3202...

(Zoom event) This panel will talk about how the privatization is pushing the monetization of the public assets of the University and how this process has become a national trend.

Book reading & panel.
Hear Mumia's former lawyers Rachel Wolkenstein and Eliot Grossman, and ex-Black Panther Gerald Smith, discuss Eliot's new book on their class struggle defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal, one of the most well-known political prisoners in the U.S.

Harry Bridges was a legendary figure in the labor movement, helping to lead the International Longshoreman's Association (ILA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).

(Zoom event) California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions.

Location: Tenderloin Museum - 398 Eddy St., SF The strike of 11,000 writers according to the members is existential. The development and use of artificial intelligence could destroy the industry and force them to become gig worker without living wages, healthcare and retirement. This is...

(Zoom event) The people and workers of Peru have faced a US supported coup that is now attacking unions and  indigenous people throughout the country.

Meet at the Main Berkeley Post Office – corner of Milvia & Alston. This walk, commemorating the 90th anniversary of the launch of the New Deal, will explore the “New Deal nexus” in Berkeley that includes Berkeley High School, the Community Theater, Civic Center Park,...

(Zoom event) The escalating attack on the Palestinian people and children also includes targeting of journalists and educators in the US. This panel will look at the case for justice for Palestinian American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, the fight for the SFSU AMED...

Fifty year ago on September 11, 1973, a coup overthrew the Allende government and set up a rightwing military regime led by Pinochet. It was supported by Nixon and Kissinger and the leadership of the AFL-CIO, which funded and supported the coup.

(Zoom event) Big changes have been underway in community colleges that are restricting opportunities for working class students to get a well-rounded education.

(Zoom event) HEAT (Higher Education Action Team) panel: Two-tier contracts are detrimental to workers. In our higher education institutions, they harm both teachers and their students. This Labor Fest panel will discuss efforts to end two-tier contracts in which equally qualified and experienced part-time instructors...

Curator Tour - Labor Archives and Research Center Exhibition.
Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel created a compelling body of work documenting the critical social transformations of the 20th century in the United States.

(Zoom event) Report on Argentina by Luciana Alterleib Luciana Alterleib is a teacher and a member of the Partido Obrero in the Left Workers Front in Argentina. She teaches History in high schools in the city of Buenos Aires. She is a member of the...

An evening of conversation with Harvey Schwartz and Professor Robert Cherny on recent ILWU history.

Book reading: "I write these memories speaking in my own name because I think the story should be told. I write them because there is universal silence about the contributions of Black Longshoreman on the West Coast, as though we never existed."

(Zoom event) The biotech leaks continue to occur not only in China but also in the US. Despite the dangers to biotech workers in the United States, there are no enforced regulations for the hundreds of thousands of biotech workers in the United States, and...

Thirteenth Annual San Francisco Living Wage Coalition Awards Dinner with cultural and musical performances, as an online Zoom event.

Brothers on The Line is an award-winning documentary exploring the extraordinary journey of the Reuter brothers, three prolific union organizers who helped build the United Auto Workers (UAW).

(Zoom event) The US is spending trillions on the war machine with over $100 billion in the Ukraine and for military expansion around the world including in Asia where the US is building a new nuclear submarine base in Austrlia’s Port Kembla. This panel will...

On this walking tour, we’ll visit key places in the labor movement including union halls residential hotels sites of picket lines and protests as well as the former home of the California Labor School!

 Longtime SF City Guide and professor of city & regional planning Linda Day shares her ongoing research on the San Francisco waitresses and saleswomen who lived downtown in the early 20th century.

The threatened closure of San Francisco Laguna Honda hospital has exposed the dangerous and deadly crisis in our healthcare system.

The growing attack on immigrants and xenophobia is not new in the US. During every major economic downturn in the history of the US immigrants have been targeted. This is combined with the continuing US military economic agenda that has led to one war after another.

Readers from the LaborFest Writers Group share memoir, storytelling, oral history, and poetry.

The dangerous and deadly toxic dumps and accident sites are spread throughout the US. In Silicon Valley, workers and community members live on top of superfund sites that have not been properly cleaned up by the EPA and corporations like Apple.

(Zoom event) Play "The Judgement: AI Robojudge" written by Howard Pflanzer. Robojudge programmed by Artificial Intelligence is forced to testify, and then judge himself guilty or not, when the government finds classified material in his memory which he is unaware of. Manipulation of AI memory...

Why was the ILWU able to survive as one of the most progressive unions in the United States during McCarthy era, the Cold War, and the post-Cold War period, while other labor organizations were crushed?

This is a class presentation on San Francisco General Strike of 1934, Bloody Thursday.

Global poetry for human rights and equality for all, with poets from the Bay Area, including the Revolutionary Poets Brigade.

This year is the 50th anniversary of the workers' rebellion against apartheid in Durban, South Africa. This was the first most important workers struggle to smash the apartheid regime.

(Zoom event) The attack on workers in South Africa is escalating. The privatization of the wealth of South Africa and the sale of all the resources of Namibia from uranium and marble mines and ports  to Chinese state and private companies has led to frontal...

This year is the 77th anniversary of the Oakland General Strike.
This walk will revisit the sites of Oakland’s “Work Holiday” that spontaneously began with rank-and-file solidarity with the striking, mostly women retail clerks at Kahn’s and Hastings department stores.

LaborTech Conf - Labor tech & AI drivers taxis, trucks, bulldozers operating engineers on the bulldozer. AI Entertainment, industry, workers from light scale labor, tech event, entertainment, industry and the lessons of the writers strike.

San Francisco has a rich political and labor history that is also connected to its buildings. In this history-by-the-buildings walk, Brad Wiedmaier will outline artifacts and events, and their connections to San Francisco’s past and present.

Join the best labor maritime boat trip in the world as we go to historical sites on the bay and the Oakland container port.