Committee for One Fighting Transit Union

Author: COFTU

  • Teamsters Mobilize member banned from Labor Notes

    Teamsters Mobilize member banned from Labor Notes

    We in COFTU have signed the petition explained by Teamsters Mobilize below.

    💥Join us to demand that Labor Notes reverse their ban of Teamsters Mobilize member Colleen Donovan from the 2026 Labor Notes conference: bit.ly/labornotesban

    On Friday, April 24th, 2026 Teamsters Mobilize Steering Committee member Colleen Donovar received an email from Labor Notes stating:

    “Dear Colleen, We will not be able to accommodate vou at the 2026 Labor Notes Conference in Chicago. We have refunded your ticket in full. You should receive your refund within a few business days. Best, Labor Notes Registration Team”

    While Labor Notes provided no explanation in their email to Colleen, we think it’s obvious that they banned her because of her role in Teamsters Mobilize. TM has been consistently critical of the Teamsters union leadership under President Sean O’Brien and of the leadership of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU). Since TDU supported O’Brien’s run for office in 2021, its leadership has continued to back O’Brien despite his blatant betrayal of Teamsters members and support for ruling class attacks on workers like ICE’s cold-blooded murder of Renee Good.

    So how did TDU respond to our criticisms? In summer 2024, their leadership rescinded the membership of another TM Steering Committee member, Jess Lister, who previously ran for the TDU Steering Committee. Our petition with over 130 signatures to reinstate Jess as a member of TDU was completely ignored by them. Later, they summarily banned all TM members from the 2025 TDU Convention!

    Labor Notes shares an office with TDU and both Labor Notes and TDU receive funding from the Social Justice & Solidarity Fund, which TDU Co-Founder, Ken Paff, sits on the board of. Up unti now, TM members have not faced any explicit repression from Labor Notes (although we were denied a table this year) and many of TM’s members attended the 2024 conference. Now the Labor Notes leadership appears to be cracking down on militants in the labor movement at a time when the US working class is facing ever greater attacks from the ruling class. Labor Notes actions clearly demonstrate which side they are taking in that struggle.

    We must take a stand against this decision by LN leadership now! 💥

  • May Day March

    May Day March

    MacArthur Park, 5/1, 10 am

    Over 100 operators and a dozen mechanics at LA Metro have been affected by the Trump & Newsom administrations cancellation of commercial drivers licenses (CDLs). Join in solidarity with unionized LA Metro workers standing up to restore CDLs for our operators and mechanics! Stand against ICE! Meet other unionists and workers in LA who share our struggle for labor conditions we all deserve!

    Gather at the southeast corner of 6th and Park View at 9:45 am

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  • For a Working Class May Day

    For a Working Class May Day

    Not a Democratic Party May Day

    Zoom discussion, Sunday, April 26 at 1 pm

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    As the U.S. ruling class escalates its war on Iran, they’re ramping up brutal domestic attacks against workers using ICE, and our economic conditions are worsening by the day. Gas and food prices are going up while [Teamster President] Sean O’Brien is basically there to ensure the Teamsters keeps bleeding members. On this call, union members will present on how we are organizing to ABOLISH ICE! and OPPOSE IMPERIALIST WARS!, plus how we can build up our ability to wage militant strikes-including preparing for a GENUINE GENERAL STRIKE! We must struggle to oppose union misleaders who collaborate with the bosses, the state, and Democratic Party-led nonprofits like 50501 and Indivisible, which only seek to co-opt and defang working class struggle.

    This May Day, let’s revive the history of fierce working class struggle against the capitalists!

    Zoom discussion with: Teamsters Mobilize, Transit Workers for a Fighting Union and Machinists Reform Action Committee, Committee for One Fighting Transit Union, Workers Strike Back and Student Workers of Columbia:

    Colleen Donovan, TM Steering Committee, UPS part-timer Local 804

    Will Peña, TM Steering Committee, UPS driver, Local 396

    Kat Latimer, TM Steering Committee, Swissport JFK, IBEW

    Elliot Brown, Committee for one Fighting Transit Union, ATU Local 1277

    Traik Peltier-Johnson, Machinists Reform Action Committee (MRAC), former IAM Local 839

    Ethan Johnson, organizer in Student Workers of Columbia (UAW 2710) and member of Socialists in Teaching and Research (STAR)

    Eddie Lizarraga, Transit Workers for a Fighting Union (TWFU), TWU Local 100

    Emily Turnbull, retired longshorewoman ILWU Local 10 (and former Executive Board member), co-founder of Committee to End Tier Segregation

    Kshama Sawant, Workers Strike Back

  • For Democratic Unions!

    For Democratic Unions!

    Out with the Bureaucracy!

    Unions are organs of workers defense, yet they are led by bureaucrats who care only for their perks and privileges. It’s for this reason the brass seek “friends” among the bosses while silencing the rank and file, avoiding the class battles necessary to defend our interests. To empower the membership, and as part of the fight for a new, class-struggle leadership, COFTU calls for:

    • Average workers’ wages for union officers!
    • Direct elections of the international president and vice presidents, local chairman, stewards and all union positions! 
    • One year terms and direct recall by simple majority!
    • Dues collected directly by the union and paid by all—no perks for stewards!
    • Open negotiations!
    • Full disclosure and open discussion of contract proposals in advance of a vote, taken at mass meetings!

    Click here view to our main demands.

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  • Teamsters Against ICE

    Teamsters Against ICE

    COFTU has endorsed the petition below, initiated by Teamsters Mobilize.

    We, the undersigned Teamsters and supporters of the union movement, demand that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters leadership:

    1. Condemn the state executions of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE and CBP agents.
    2. Organize for an end to any contracts with ICE, including the ICE/UPS contract.
    3. Defend members who refuse to comply with ICE operations on the job.
    4. ⁠Hold local meetings, open to all membership in person and on Zoom, to discuss the ongoing state terror against the working class, and the potential use of political strikes to fight back.
    5. Defend the people’s right to bear arms, as is protected by the Second Amendment.
    6. Oppose the spread of the dystopian surveillance technology developed by Palantir and other companies for US federal agencies, which is being used on all people regardless of immigration status and is a test run for fascist rule in the US.
    7. Call for the abolition of ICE, a brutal and anonymous federal police force. The first step is its immediate removal from US cities. ICE is a new and disturbing outgrowth of the state and a product of the so-called “War on Terror.” ICE is not just a threat to immigrants, but to all workers in the US.

    Click here to sign the petition