{"id":826,"date":"2013-09-21T22:49:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T22:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwgusa.wordpress.com\/?p=826"},"modified":"2013-09-21T22:49:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T22:49:51","slug":"bart-workers-reject-the-concessionary-contract-being-negotiated-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cwgusa.org\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"BART WORKERS!  REJECT THE CONCESSIONARY CONTRACT  BEING NEGOTIATED NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\"><b>NO GIVE BACKS!\u00a0 NO TAKE AWAYS!\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>MAKE THE 1% PAY!<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>BART, AC TRANSIT, WAL-MART, FAST FOOD WORKERS AND OUT OF CONTRACT UNIONS: WE HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THE BOSSES ATTACKS WITH A BAY AREA WIDE INDEFINITE GENERAL STRIKE!<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Labor Tops (the Pie cards from the international, the State Fed and the Labor Councils) are joining management and the Democrats in twisting the arm of the rank and file and their most militant negotiators demanding a no gains\/give back contract.\u00a0 Labor negotiator Josie Mooney has made concessions this week we must reject as DOA!\u00a0 BART and AC transit workers are taking the heat for all labor and can either turn the tide and defeat the bosses attacks, or a defeat will be compounded on hundreds of thousands of other workers looking for a decent contract.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today all labor must be mobilized to stand shoulder to shoulder with AC Transit and BART workers fighting for their contract.\u00a0 If BART workers lose the losses will be the new bottom sought in all our contracts!\u00a0 So labor\u00a0 must direct its immense resources toward winning this contract.\u00a0 To do that we must create a grand united front of all Bay Area Labor and the community.\u00a0 To reach out to the community labor must show it is serious about organizing the low wage workers so they can win dignity and a \u2018living wage\u2019 that mass workers assemblies define.\u00a0\u00a0 Labor must reach out to the most oppressed and exploited and win them to supporting and mobilizing all unions now out of contract, public, transit workers &amp; low wage workers for the indefinite strike to win! To accomplish this\u00a0 the rank and file needs to reassert union democracy and sweep away the dead wood, be they from the international or the labor tops of the local councils\u00a0 who join with the bosses to stop strike actions and scare us with the threat of the anti-labor\u00a0 laws they will never fight!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>WE SAY $15.00 IS NOT ENOUGH!\u00a0\u00a0 FREE QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL!\u00a0 PENSIONS ARE A RIGHT NOT A PRIVILEGE! <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>ESTABLISH LABOR\/COMMUNITY WAGE AND PRICE COMMITTEES THAT DEFINE A LIVING WAGE AND FIGHT FOR AND ENFORCE A SLIDING SCALE OF PRICES AND PREVAILING WAGES TO ELIMINATE POVERTY &amp; WANT!<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>JOBS FOR ALL NOW! SHARE THE WORK! 30 HOURS WORK FOR 40 HOURS PAY!\u00a0 <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, while low wage workers are making their demands heard in strikes and actions across the fast food industry, at Wal-Mart stores and warehouses, public workers and unions are put on the defensive.\u00a0 The bosses shrug off the 50 million who live in poverty, a misery enforced by minimum wage-slavery. The bosses even sustain \u201clabor friendly\u201d economists like U.C. Berkeley Professor Robert Reich (secretary of labor for Clinton) who \u2018benevolently\u2019 promote the poverty wage of $15.00 an hour as a sufficient minimum, while in Sacramento they phase in a new $10.00 minimum over 2.4 years. This they hope will prevent workers from building a general strike movement to turn on the offense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This holding down of minimum wages by liberal politicians and economists is the hidden side of the 0.1%\u2019s take away of the workers share. The $10.00 minimum is intended to defuse the \u2018Fight for Fifteen\u2019 movement (FF$15) and movements for a living wage, especially when they eye the prevailing wage as their goal. The bosses\u2019 project is to drive down the prevailing wage relative to inflation by denying COLAS, in stark contrast to increases in productivity, CEO pay and stock profits.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To build a united strong movement that can win, labor must put resources to organizing the unorganized, fighting for jobs for all at a living wage, a wage which labor defines, to strengthen the alliance with the most oppressed. We will need action committees in all job sites to build a class-wide General Strike movement based in the unions and the oppressed and worker communities, exemplary political strikes like that initiated by the ILWU Local 10 on Oct 23, 2010 to \u2018Jail Killer Cops\u2019 must be held to win the communities\u2019 just demands. <b>LABOR MUST FIGHT FOR JUSTICE FOR OSCAR GRANT, ALAN BLUEFORD, KENNETH HARDING JR., RAHEIM BROWN JR., MARIO ROMERO, JAMES RIVERA, END RACIAL PROFILING AND STOP AND FRISK! \u2018An Injury to one is an Injury to all!&#8217;\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The alliance, formed by the Democratic Party, including the liberal economists (Reich, Paul Krugman\u2026) and the entrenched leadership of the two major labor federations, acts as an efficient tool of enforcement designed to stop workers self-organization, class struggle actions and political independence.\u00a0 Workers\u2019 democratic action committees and assemblies need to be convened to organize and beat back the attacks of the 0.1%.\u00a0 The Democrats only support worker mobilizations to the extent they can be turned into party electoral projects.\u00a0 As witnessed in Wisconsin, the mass movement toward a General Strike was stuffed into an ill-fated recall campaign, disarming labor and leading to defeats for public workers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Labor\u2019s alliance to the Democratic Party ties labor\u2019s hands. Labor has refused to fight the anti-labor anti-strike laws like Taft-Hartley which outlaw solidarity and general\/political strikes.\u00a0 In contrast, a fighting workers\u2019 Labor party will build mass democratic workers assemblies that empower strikers and mobilize the working class and oppressed communities for their victory!\u00a0 In order for labor to win, we must reclaim class struggle tactics and stake out political independence!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Management scoffs at labors demands!\u00a0 So today the Communist Workers Group (CWG) advocates united strike action of the AC Transit, the BART and the other unions (public and private) currently out of contract. The CWG calls on all labor to join in and make the transit contract class-wide fight! In order to win, to organize the unorganized and protect the most oppressed and exploited, labor must reclaim the right to strike which can only be won by victorious strike action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b><br \/> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>SAVE OUR UNIONS! \u00a0\u00a0REJECT CONCESSIONAY CONTRACTS! <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED! <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>LAUNCH THE UNITED AND INDEFINITE GENERAL STRIKE NOW!<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>TO WIN LABOR MUST BREAK WITH THE DEMOCRATS!<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>FORM A FIGHTING WORKERS\u2019  LABOR PARTY!<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0also at\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2013\/09\/21\/18743594.php\">https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2013\/09\/21\/18743594.php<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"line-height:1.7;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; NO GIVE BACKS!\u00a0 NO TAKE AWAYS!\u00a0 MAKE THE 1% PAY! \u00a0 BART, AC TRANSIT, WAL-MART, FAST FOOD WORKERS AND OUT OF CONTRACT UNIONS: WE HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THE BOSSES ATTACKS WITH A BAY AREA WIDE INDEFINITE GENERAL STRIKE! \u00a0 The Labor Tops (the Pie cards from the international, the State Fed and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[91,138,139,207,208,305,390,521,528,576,663,738],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-struggles","tag-ac-transit","tag-bart","tag-bart-strike","tag-class-struggle","tag-class-war","tag-fight-for-15","tag-josie-mooney","tag-oakland","tag-oscar-grant","tag-public-workers","tag-solidarity","tag-wal-mart"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BART WORKERS! 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