Video
A Militant Critique of Labor Notes
For a Fighting Labor Movement
COFTU was joined by Class Struggle Action Network, the Committee to Organize the Unorganized (in IBEW), Teamsters Mobilize, the Machinists Action Reform Committee and Transit Workers for a Fighting Union for this panel and discussion outside the Labor Notes conference in Chicago.
See fightingworkersmovement.wordpress.com for more info.
June 14, 2026
LA Metro Workers at May Day
On May 1, 2026, LA Metro workers formed a contingent in the May Day march, behind an ATU 1277 banner reading “ICE OUT!” With over 100 coworkers losing their commercial drivers licenses and being forced into lower paid positions, the demonstrators held signs including ones that said “CDLs Revoked: Preserve Pay & Seniority!”
May 28, 2026
Report Back on MN “General Strike”
Speech about the 1/23 Minneapolis “General Strike” at the LA Holiday Appeal for Class-War Prisoners on 1/31. Put on by the Partisan Defense Committee, the Appeal “raises money for monthly stipends as an expression of solidarity to those imprisoned for standing up to racist capitalist repression and imperialist depredation.” The current recipients are Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard Peltier and Xinachtli. Partisandefense.org
February 5, 2026
About the Unionists for Seán & Jaime Rally on 9/25/2025
On 9/25/25, the Unionists for Seán & Jaime (linktr.ee/unionists4sj) put on a rally for no discipline, full backpay for drivers who oppose ICE. It drew in unionists from across Metro and the city, as well as community activists, to the steps of Metro HQ. Hear Elliot from the Committee for One Fighting Transit Union discuss the significance.
October 11, 2025
Frequently Asked Questions about our petition to merge ATU & TCU (and now SMART) at LA Metro!
We’ve started collecting signatures on a petition to merge ATU 1277, TCU 1315—and now including SMART—at LACMTA! We’ve received many questions and have created a video to answer them. Feel free to skip to the chapter that addresses your question, and leave comments if you have some more!
November 3, 2024
Podcast appearances
Gimme A Break!
Labor Notes at a Dead End and How to Get a Fighting Labor Movement
Lital and Edward are joined by Elliot from the Committee for One Fighting Transit Union (COFTU) and Chantelle from the Maoist Communist Union (MCU) and Teamsters Mobilize (TM) to talk last month’s Labor Notes conference. Both were part of a panel held the same weekend as Labor Notes, “A Militant Critique of Labor Notes: For a Fighting Workers Movement,” and talk both their experiences on the job, at Labor Notes, and what strategy is needed to rebuild the labor movement in the United States. Not surprisingly, they don’t see DSA’s current labor strategy as being up to snuff.
July 5, 2026