Join us for the 2009 Southern Workers School

ALIGN

Saturday, December 5
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Hargett St. YWCA
554 E. Hargett St.
Raleigh, NC 27601



Workers in the recession economy are being squeezed even tighter than before. Learn from other workers and activists with unions and workers centers across the South about fighting for collective bargaining and against cuts to crucial public sector jobs during the recession. Learn nitty-gritty skills in workshops and hear from workers who are fighting back at work and in their communities across the South.

Program
8am Registration & Continental Breakfast
9-10:10 Opening Plenary: Southern Workers Fighting Back in this Time of Economic Crisis & War Abroad
Break (Black Workers for Justice)
10:15-11:15: Plenary: What is collective bargaining and why do we need it (International Longshoremen's Association Local 1422, UE Local 150, Charleston Sanitation workers, plus more)
11:15 - 12:15: Womens' Roundtable
12:15 - 1pm: Lunch / Youth Caucus
1 - 2:30: Workshops

  • Bringing the collective bargaining work to the international level here and abroad. What is the approach that has been used to address the fight for collective bargaining internationally and how does solidarity with immigrant workers and Black/Brown solidarity address that? (International Worker Justice Campaign, Mexicanos sin Fronteras)
  • Building broad labor-community struggles to win legislative & legal strategies within the larger collective bargaining campaign (Virginia Peoples Assembly, Richmond Jobs with Justice)
  • How do struggles against program, service, job cuts and layoffs also build the fight for collective bargaining? (CAAMWU, UCW-CWA)
  • What is collective bargaining: what does it mean at the worksite and how the fight for collective bargaining must be anchored & led by the the rank and file. (ILA Local 1422, UE 150)

2:30 - 4pm: Discussion Groups
4-5pm: Closing Plenary


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Housing
Contact us immediately if you'd like to find housing with an activist in the area.

Some hotel options:

Clarion Hotel State Capital (1 mile from event)
http://clarionhotel.com
$89.00 + tax / night
320 Hillsborough Street
Raleigh, NC 27603-1786
(919) 832-0501

Super 8 Downtown East (3 miles from event)
http://www.super8.com
3804 New Bern Ave.
Raleigh, NC
(919) 231-8818
55.95 + tax / night

The 2009 Southern Workers School is a joint project of Black Workers for Justice, the Communiversity, and Labor Notes.

For more information, please contact:
Shafeah M'Balia:
shafeah [at] mac [dot] com, (252) 442-8123
Tiffany Ten Eyck:
tiffany [at] labornotes [dot] org, (313) 842-6262

www.blackworkersforjustice.org

www.labornotes.org