San Francisco Mayor Says: More Cops, Less of Everything Else
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the wealthiest and most productive economic areas in the whole world. Its working people are in a constant state of crisis and forced to endure wave after wave of austerity. San Francisco public schools face layoffs and school closures, even before teachers were forced to strike for modest […]
AHS Workers Demand a Safe Workplace
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Healthcare workers at Highland and throughout the Bay Area were shocked to learn of the stabbing death of a social worker at a San Francisco General Hospital clinic earlier this month. Although SF General administrators are now agreeing […]
Report from the Picket Line: SF Hotel Workers Won’t Concede To Corporate Greed
San Francisco hotel workers are in their third month of a strike.
Labor Peace or Class War?
(reprinted from the BART newsletter) Earlier this year during the negotiations with the Big 3 auto companies, UAW president, Shawn Fain said the working class in this country is facing a war – “a class war”. That is unusual coming from a president of a union in this country, where the focus is usually on […]
WEST COAST MARCH FOR GAZA (JAN. 14)
Join thousands of others to demonstrate our opposition to this genocidal attack on Palestinians. Sunday, January 14 at 1pm San Francisco Civic Center Plaza Speak Out Now will be there. Join Us. Look for our booth in the plaza. {image to share on social media}