This year is the 90th anniversary of both the Minneapolis Teamster General Strike and the San Francisco General Strike. This panel will look at the victories and lessons of those strikes for today.
Readers from the LaborFest Writers Group share poetry, memoir, fiction and nonfiction during a live event at the renowned San Francisco bookstore - Bird and Beckett.
The American Dream. It used to mean a job, a house, a car, a spouse, 2.5 kids, and a .4 dog. But what does it mean now? For Gabriel Pearce, a Black man tired of liberal failures, on the day after the presidential election it means victory!
Ninety years ago (1934), 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.
Ninety years ago. San Francisco's class relations were transformed by the General Strike, This commemorative event "Bloody Thursday" (this year it's on Friday), when police shot more than five dozen and killed two strikers.
The destruction of workers in Southern African including in South Africa and Namibia is escalating. Workers are being forced into contract labor which was the type of labor under apartheid conditions.
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.
This panel will look at the historic struggle against white supremacy in the labor movement and the growth of fascism in the US today.
Identity politics which pits workers against workers has been used within the labor movement to stop unionization and weaken the labor movement.
Today, the Tesla service workers in Sweden who are members of IF Metal union have been on strike since October 2023. Their union sees the struggle as a fundamental struggle to defend union rights.
The introduction of UBER and Lyft has decimated the taxi industry and led to a massive growth of the gig economy in the US and internationally. Now Google with Waymo, GM with Cruise and other companies are developing autonomous vehicles in San Francisco and California.
