Events

The massive industrialization of Vietnam and the conditions of women migrant workers is a serious issue and the focus of this report.

The threat to workers who get injured or sick on the job is growing. The elimination of any oversight of health and safety on the job and the lack of OSHA inspectors and oversight of dangerous working conditions is of epidemic conditions.

With Dr. John Caravello, Lecturer CSU Channel Island Member CF
The use of ICE to terrorize and incarcerate immigrant workers and workers and community people who challenge them is a major threat to the entire working class.

Workers and unionists are starting to use AI to fight court cases and also to help with grievances and getting information on issues facing them on the job.

With Professor Bryan Palmer
The 1934 Minneapolis Teamster general strike was a pivotal point in national organizing particularly for Teamsters.

The open move to disenfranchise the Black people and remove Black representatives is part of the effort to sanitize Black history and return to the Confederacy.

Labor historian Mark Kruger in his upcoming new book Socialism in the America West 1830-1954 provides a Kaleidoscopic narrative history of the socialist experience in the American west during the 19th and 20th century.

The history of the Black Panther party and the San Francisco State Third World Strike were connected. This panel will discuss this history and how this was an important part of the struggle of the strike.

A Panel of discussion with trade unionists from South Africa and Namibia. (More info coming soon)

The history of the farmworkers and the role of the UFW in light of the revelations of Cesar Chavez are important today to look at the censored history of the union.

With Barry Anderson and other Hip Hop Artists
(More info coming soon)

Palestinian journalists and their families have faced the largest number of deaths in the world as they have been targeted by the Israeli IDF in both Gaza and the West Bank.

This forum will look at the history and role of the "Solidarity Center" and recent developments in this center and why this must be an issue for unions and the workers of the United States.

(Info coming soon)

Zoom From Minneapolis Commemoration Committee Live Stream at the site of Bloody Friday

(Info coming soon)

Teamsters are in a battle to remove inward facing AI inferred cameras from their truck cabs after they have received tumors and cataracts.
This panel will report on their fight to protect their health and safety.

AI is now being used to eliminate workers on the job and this is a major threat to public workers in San Francisco and throughout the country.

Book Presentation of “Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism” By Professor Brian Kwoba

Japanese workers and unionists have faced union busting and the privatization of Japan Rail which was instituted to smash the militant unionism which organized a national strike in 1975 against the Vietnam war.

(Info coming soon)

The drive by the tech billionaires to use AI to capture and scrape data from the internet and use this to profit from the data threatens all workers including writers and artists. This pane will look at the effect of AI in these industries and what workers and people can do about it.

Non-profit and NGO unionization is the fastest growing militant wing of the labor movement. Despite being ignored by the left media, these new mostly self-organized independent unions are taking on the “due gooder” myth of long hours, low wages and bad bosses—and they’re winning.

The Teamsters is one of the most powerful unions in the United States, but it is under assault by AI, union busting at Amazon and massive closures at UPS. How workers organize a fight to defend their jobs and fight for a democratic union will be the focus of this panel.