Sunday, February 15, 2009

Public workers fight back in California; day of action May 1st

An example from California labor:

Support United Public Workers Action to Stop the Attacks
on Public Workers, Students and the Users of Public
Services

Join Statewide Public Workers Conference on March 15 &
Statewide Protest of Education Cutbacks on March 16 in
Sacramento

Public workers and public services face the greatest
attack since the 1930's. From education to healthcare to
local and state services the people of California are
under assault. Unions including AFT 2121, AFSCME District
Council 57 and UTLA in Los Angeles have called for an
emergency meeting of all public workers unions in
California to outline what affect these attacks are having
on public workers and services and discuss a plan of
action to defend our members and services. We need to
bring together all public workers and their locals in
California at this conference to get on the same page.
Isolated actions and protests that are not tied together
statewide will be ineffective in dealing with this growing
catastrophe we all face.

This state wide public workers conference which will be
held on Sunday March 15th, 2009 at Los Rios College in
Sacramento will be held the day before a mass protests of
community college students throughout the state who are
mobilizing for the right to an education.

The crash in housing prices and a state structure that
shields the rich and major corporations from paying their
share of taxes is now creating an unbearable situation for
the defense of public workers. We need to remove the 2/3's
requirement to get a budget, eliminate the commercial
property exemption under proposition 13 and impose a
capital tax on the millionaires and billionaires in
California. At the same time trillions of dollars are
being spent on wars and a military empire around the
world. This is not only unacceptable but also financially
foolhardy in the face of the great economic collapse in
our life times.

We will also be discussing a statewide of action by all of
the 1.5 million public workers in California along with
all students from K-12 CSU, UC and community colleges on
May 1, 2009. We need to act as one with our collective
power if we are to confront the union busting agenda of
the corporations and their representatives in the State
government.

To find out more information about this conference contact
United Public Workers For Action UPWA

Interested individuals and unions can contact

Pablo Rodriquez at
pabrodriguez@yahoo.com or Rodger Scott
at
xgtel@prodigy.net

American Federation of Teachers, Local 2121, at (415)
585-2121

The next meeting of the planning committee will be on
Sunday Feb 15, 2009 at 11:00 at the AFT 2121 offices

311 Miramar Ave/Ocean Avenue Near SF City College

San Francisco, CA

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http://www.sflaborcouncil.org/ViewUpload/396

Resolution in Support of the California Public Workers
Conference on March 15,
Community College March on Sacramento on March 16, & a
Statewide Day of Action On
May 1, 2009

Whereas, public workers representing state, county, local,
and education workers from K-12,
Community Colleges, CSU and UC face a massive attack on
their jobs, working conditions and
benefits; and

Whereas, the devastating effects of the current economic
crisis require that all public
employees work together in our efforts to educate
ourselves and the people of California and
the nation about the threats all workers face and the need
for united action; and

Whereas, these cuts and attacks on public workers will
fundamentally harm the students of
California and the recipients of public services; and

Whereas, public workers cannot afford to be pitted against
each other during the most
threatening economic crisis since the Great Depression;
and

Whereas, the need for education on these issues is
critical and subsequent united action to
preserve the gains working people have made in the past
seven decades is vital,

Therefore be it Resolved that the San Francisco Labor
Council support the call for a statewide
education conference of United Public Workers for Action
(UPWA) on March 15, 2009 in
Sacramento, also the massive demonstration on March 16 by
Community College faculty, staff
and students to protest budget cuts and tuition increases
(both events have been endorsed by
AFT Local 2121, United Teachers of Los Angeles, AFSCME
District Council 57) and

Be it Further Resolved that the San Francisco Labor
Council support a statewide day of action
on May 1, 2009 by immigrant rights and other groups that
oppose the proposed cuts in human
services to the people of California, and

Be it Finally Resolved that the San Francisco Labor
Council will forward this resolution to all
other affiliated bodies for concurrence.

Submitted by Brothers David Welsh, NALC 214; David
Williams, SEIU 1021; and Rodger
Scott, AFT 2121 and adopted by the San Francisco Labor
Council on February 9, 2009.

Respectfully,

Tim Paulson
Executive Director
OPEIU3 AFL-CIO 11

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