LaborFest

Schedule:

11:00 am - 1:00 pm: Identity Politics, Unions and The Working Class
(Panel discussion)

Identity politics which pits workers against workers has been used within the labor movement to stop unionization and weaken the labor movement. It will examine the use by the corporations and the politicians to implement their policies by the use of identity politics to weaken and divide all working people.  This panel will look at this struggle today in the working class and labor movement.

Location: 424 Valencia St., SF

2:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Sweden, Worker Rights and The Struggle At Tesla
With Jordin Williams and Carlos Reymon Gabriel
Today the Tesla service workers in Sweden who are members of IF Metall union  have been on strike since October 2023 against the billionaire union buster Elon Musk. Their union sees the struggle as a fundamental and existential  struggle to defend union rights in Sweden and the Netherlands. Many other workers including metal workers, dockers and even postal workers are refusing to deliver cars and even mail.

Speakers:
Jordin Williams – A Swedish American trade unionist who will report on this strike and the lessons for Swedish and US workers who want to organize Tesla workers at Fremont and throughout the country. At Fremont Musk  fired 700 workers who wanted a union, conspired to avoid workers compensation and has systematically discriminated against women and Black workers.
Carlos Reymon Gabriel – Fired Tesla worker at Fremont, California

Location: San Francisco North Beach Library – 850 Columbus St. San Francisco