Join Bay Area 2021 May Day Event in SF

Saturday, May 1 @ 10 am

Meet at the Embarcadero

Organizations should RSVP at www.bit.ly/mayday2021

Join us on May 1st as we recreate the famous 1934 May Day march up Market Street from the Embarcadero to Civic Center for a rally. Wear your union shirts and jackets!

Celebrations of International Workers’ Day, also called May Day, date back over 100 years to the fight for an eight-hour work day. In San Francisco, May 1 has also played host to a rich history of collective action by workers—and this year will be no different.

The triple-threat of rising income inequality, racial injustice, and COVID-19 has hit working families hard. In order for our communities to emerge from this crisis healthy and prosperous, we need a just and equitable recovery for all.

That means building support for key legislation like the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which will empower workers to exercise our freedom to organize and negotiate for better wages and working conditions. It also means uniting together—no matter who we are or where we come from—to #StopAsianHate, proclaim that #BlackLivesMatter, ensure immigrants are safe and welcome in our communities, and fight to ensure that

workers everywhere can live and work with the dignity and respect we all deserve. OPEIU 29 AFL-CIO 11

Stop the Destruction of Our Working Class College

City College of San Francisco (CCSF) Board of Trustees is Set to Vote on Pinkslips to Hundreds of Teachers in Early May

CCSF, San Francisco’s working class public college is being dramatically downsized. Educational opportunities for its students are vanishing. Mass unemployment in San Francisco and the US requires more public education not less.

The downsizing of CCSF is a racist attack. Most of the college’s students are people of color from the working and lower middle class--your family members, friends, colleagues, and neighbors.

At CCSF, plans have been put in place to greatly reduce class offerings and the number of faculty despite the college receiving some $50 million in Covid relief money and will soon be getting more money from the state.

When classes are cut, fewer students enroll. The decline in the number of students is then used as an excuse for more cuts and to justify making the college’s real estate available for private interests.

As an engine for its Post Pandemic Recovery, San Francisco needs City College more than ever to put people back to work.

Proposed cuts include an unbelievable 50% cut in the nursing program that puts the health of all of us at risk. Devastating cuts are planned in job training classes that workers take to learn new skills. English as a Second Language, Older Adult Education, and Services to Students with Disabilities are all on the chopping block.

The unions at CCSF are also under attack. When union workers are cut, the unions representing them are weakened. Additionally, taxpayer funds for the college are being used to benefit private interests—consultants and contractors—none of whom teach classes.

City College offers tuition-free classes for San Francisco residents. You might not know this because the overpaid administration does not see fit to produce a printed class schedule and distribute it throughout the city.

We join with education workers, students and supporters of public education here and. around the world against the dismantling of public education.

FIND STEPS TO STOP THE LAYOFFS AND CUTS ON THE FLIP SIDE

TAKE ACTION TO STOP THE LAYOFFS AND CUTS TO COMMUNITY COLLEGES

HAVE YOUR UNION PASS RESOLUTIONS AGAINST THE CUTS

Tell: The CCSF Board of Trustees not to lay off teachers and cut classes

https://www.ccsf.edu/about-ccsf/board-trustees

and

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Mayor to provide emergency city funding to CCSF to stop the cuts.

MayorLondonBreed@sfgov.org and https://sfbos.org/roster-members

Sign:

HEAT’s (Higher Education Action Team) petition expressing no confidence in CCSF’s administration at HEAT’s website at CCSFHeat.org or http://chng.it/mkNrg8nx

HEAT will be holding a panel on May 15 at 11 AM on what is happening to our community colleges Zoom information for meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85810173991?pwd=dExvZVBWbnZPZUd6WkgwNEJwYnJFQT09

And on May 24 at 12:00 noon rally at the State Community College Board of Trustees on May 24th State Community College Board of Trustees 1102 Q Street, 6th Floor Sacramento

Statewide:

Write the Governor, Assemblymember Phil Ting and your state representatives to fully fund public education and impose higher taxes on billionaires.

Click and send letter templates are available at Rebuildcitycollege.wordpress.com

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