Archive for the ‘WERC’ Category
Dear Sisters and Brothers:
Rank-and-file unions from various parts of the country, as well as Central Labor Councils, have been passing resolutions calling on the AFL-CIO and Change to Win to organize a massive Solidarity Day III demonstration in Washington to demand job-creation programs as well as other programs vital to working people. [See initial list [...]
Tags: WERC
As Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, recently announced in response to the Massachusetts elections: “It’s not time to leave it to any political party to take care of us once we put them in office. It’s time to organize and mobilize as never before to make every elected or aspiring leader PROVE he or she will create the jobs we need in an economy we need with the health care we need. I know we are the people who can mobilize a massive army to force elected leaders to deliver.”
Tags: AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, single payer, Solidarity Day III
We have good news. We have learned that there is a growing recognition among leading labor officials in the AFL-CIO that a massive mobilization in the streets of trade unionists and our allies will be necessary in order to ensure that the needs of working people, which have been exacerbated as a result of this devastating economic crisis, are addressed.
Tags: Solidarity Day III
Campaign for Solidarity Day III in DC Next Spring to Demand Jobs, Peace, Affordable Health Care For All and Ending Foreclosures and Evictions
Tags: Cynthia McKinney, labor unions, Solidarity Day III, WERC
We think it is crucial to mount a campaign directed at all the diverse issues that are economically crippling working people. In this way we can create a broad, powerful movement. In unity there is strength.
Tags: g20, HR676, labor unions, WERC
BY ALAN BENJAMIN
[Note: The following talk was presented by Alan Benjamin to the May 9 Teach-In in San Francisco to "Bail Out Working People -- NOT the Banks!" Benjamin is a member of the Executive Committee of the San Francisco Labor Council and is a co-chair of the Council's Economic Crisis Committee. This talk was [...]
But while we are waging many separate battles, our economic misery stems from a single source: The very rich, who own the banks and the corporations, exert enormous power in Washington, far beyond what their small numbers warrant.
Tags: WERC
A large-scale ‘Bail-out working people – Not the Banks’ teach-in’ and mass mobilization planning meeting’ scheduled for San Francisco May 9 is a hopeful harbinger of things to come.. This teach-in is heavily supported by organized labour and may well serve as a model for teach-ins in other areas. Such teach-ins can help to usher in a new era of greatly intensified grass-roots struggle against the power of finance capital in the U.S. and other countries with their anti-labour and anti-people policies.
Railroad Workers United
Unity – Solidarity – Democracy: The Rank & File in Action!
Railroadworkersunited.org info@railroadworkersunited.org (206) 984-3051
PO Box 1053, Salem, IL 62881
Workers Emergency Recovery Campaign
P.O. Box 40009
San Francisco, CA 94140
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
At our Executive Committee Conference Call on April 7th, 2009, Railroad Workers United (RWU) voted to endorse [...]