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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  • 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