Committee for One Fighting Transit Union

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  • Discussion: A Militant Critique of Labor Notes

    Discussion: A Militant Critique of Labor Notes

    For a Fighting Labor Movement

    COFTU is proud to be participating in a panel discussion in Chicago on Sunday, June 14th, titled “A Militant Critique of Labor Notes: For a Fighting Workers Movement.” We urge participants at this year’s Labor Notes conference and other supporters of the working class to attend. Feel free to RSVP or also sign up to watch online. Six different organizations of militant unionists will be talking about their common struggle to transform the U.S. labor movement.

    For decades in the United States, union leaders tied to the Democratic and Republican parties have traded away our power for labor peace with the ruling class.

    Thousands of workers will soon gather at the Labor Notes conference in Chicago. But Labor Notes organizers and like-minded union bureaucrats will make every attempt to steer participants’ energy back into the dead-end of Democratic Party politics and class collaboration.

    We are building something different. Worker militants from across the union movement are coming together in Chicago for an alternative event to discuss and advance our common goal of transforming our unions into fighting organizations, independent of the bosses, their political parties, and their government.

    Join us IN-PERSON or ONLINE

    Sunday, June 14th (3hr event)

    8:45 am PDT / 10:45 am CDT

    CHICAGO, IL

    Signature Ballroom
    5460 North River Road
    Rosemont IL 60018

    PORTLAND, OR

    400 SE 12th Ave, 97214

    Zoom link TBA

    RSVP at fightingworkersmovement.wordpress.com • Fighting-Workers-Movement@proton.me

    Organizers: Teamsters Mobilize • NorCal Committee to Organize the Unorganized (IBEW) • Transit Workers for a Fighting Union • Committee for One Fighting Transit Union • Class Struggle Action Network • Machinists Reform Action Committee (IAM)

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  • Labor’s Turning Point

    Labor’s Turning Point

    The 1934 Minneapolis General Strike

    Film Screening + Discussion

    Friday, 8 May at 4pm PST
    RSVP + Zoom link: bit.ly/laborsturningpoint

    This Friday, join us to watch and discuss the documentary Labor’s Turning Point, about the 1934 Minneapolis General Strike which kicked off the transformation of the Teamsters into an industrial union and helped lay the foundation for the establishment of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. This film can help us to answer many important questions for the US labor movement today: Was the January 23 “No Work, No School, No Shopping” action against ICE in Minneapolis a real general strike? How should we respond to UAW President Shawn Fain’s call for a May Day general strike in 2028? What can we do now in our unions to prepare for the type of mass action that can paralyze the economy, deal meaningful blows against the ruling class, and win working class demands? Let’s come together to study this important chapter in US labor history and figure out what lessons it offers us nearly a century later!

    Cosponsors: Teamsters Mobilize, Committee for One Fighting Transit Union, Machinists Reform Action Committee + Transit Workers for a Fighting Union

  • 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

    bit.ly/tm-025

    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