SEIU Members for Democracy

Expolore art, events, workshops, news, history, non-profits, books, chants, and music from a wealth of labor resources locally and nationally.

Please email us if you have a favorite labor resource you would like to have included. You can also drop us a line using the form on our contact us page.

(This page is still under construction)

Events

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/12/18478682.php - 2008 LaborFest SF call for entries (labor videos). Festival Dates: July 5–31, 2008. Contact: lvpsf@labornet.org or call (415) 282-1908. For more information see http://www.laborfest.net

LaborTech 2008: Call for Papers and Proposals - LaborTech: The Digital Revolution, Democracy and a Labor Media Strategy December 5, 6, & 7, 2008 San Francisco. PDF of Call with details. Deadline September 5, 2008. http://www.labortech.net

http://www.kpfalaborcollective.org/parent_kpfa.htm - KPFA Labor Collective (Click "Calendar" on the title bar)

Workshops and Classes

http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/workshops/ - 2008 workshops on Media Skills, Strategic Campaigns, and Financial Skills, all provided by the U.C. Berkeley Labor Center, Center for Research and Education

http://www.sjcc.edu/ACADEMICS/Humanities_SocialScience/Labor/LaborStudies.shtml -Spring 2008 Labor Studies classes from San Jose City College.

News Resources

See our Democracy4SEIU Bloglines Feeds for the latest local and national news on the democratic labor movement: http://www.bloglines.com/public/Democracy4SEIU

http://www.labornet.org/ -LaborNet: online communications since 1991 for a democratic, independent labor movement

http://www.labornotes.org/ - Labor Notes, putting the movement back in the labor movement

http://www.labourstart.org/en/ - LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net

Other Reform Labor Groups

http://ranknfile.net/ - Carpenters for a Democratic Union

http://www.heardny.org/main.htm - H.E.A.R.D. Hotel Employee Advocates for Real Democracy

http://www.ilwu19.com/rustyhook/ - The Rusty Hook, Seattle ILWU-Pension Club

http://www.iuoewatch.info/index.htm - IUOE Watch, International Union of Operating Engineers have their voice heard

http://www.local18membersvoice.com/ - Local 18 IUOE for Free Speech and Democracy

http://www.youaretheuniontib.com/ - Machinists for Solidarity

http://pilotsunited.com/ - Pilots United, an unofficial site for United Airlines pilots

http://www.reapinc.org/ - REAP, Resarch-Education-Advocacy-People, a UFCW group

http://tdu.org/ - Teamsters for a Democratic Union

http://www.m-f-d.org/ - UFCW Members for Democracy

History

http://calpedia.sfsu.edu/calabor/ - California Labor History Map (Interactive, requires Shockware which is provided free of charge at this site)

http://www.chavezfoundation.org/ - Cesar E. Chavez Foundation and the United Farm Workers http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?menu=research&inc=research_history.html

Sites on the Haymarket Tragedy and the origins of MayDay: http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/haymarket.htm, http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/haymkmon.htm, http://www.lucyparsonsproject.org/haymarket/haymarket_trajedy_cpl.html, http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/571.html 

http://www.kpfalaborcollective.org/parent_kpfa.htm - KPFA Labor Collective (Click "History" and "Resources" on the title bar)

Research and Educational Organizations

http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/ - U.C. Berkeley Labor Center, Center for Research and Education - Publications, reports, field projects, and resources on American labor which includes highlights on immigrant workers, working women, disabled workers, young workers, Bay Area studies, and much, much more.

Books

http://www.monthlyreview.org/laborpains.htm - Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement,  by Suzan Erem. (Erem was an organizer with SEIU Local 73 which represents more than 25000 workers throughout the State of Illinois and Indiana)

http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/wpa/resources.html - American Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA, by Nick Taylor. (This Random House link also includes WPA and New Deal Research Documents, a timeline, audio and video spots, and other related links)

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11121.php - Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice, by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin. (Released in June 2008)

http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Blair-Mountain-Americas-Uprising/dp/0813340969 - Battle of Blair Mountain: The story of labor's largest uprising, by Robert Shogan. (The largest armed organized uprising in labor history, resulting in most of our current American labor laws)

Music and Chants

http://www.laborheritage.org/index.htm - Resources from the Labor Heritage Foundation in New York. Inlcudes labor song parodies: http://www.laborheritage.org/Parodies.html

http://unionsong.com/index.html - Union Songs documents past and present union poetry and music

http://www.geocities.com/nashville/3448/guthrie.html - The Songs of Woodie Guthrie site includes lyrics and music files

Art

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/highlights.html - Library of Congress, Posters from the WPA: Collection Highlights. About the posters: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/about.html

http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismdepts/art/WPA/ - Illinios State Museum Collections Online - New Deal and WPA art

General Resources

http://www.lir.msu.edu/hotlinks/LaborUnions.php - Michigan State University, School of Labor and Industrial Relations - Links to a number labor movement sites, music, art, and union directories

If you have an event, site, or item of interest regarding the democratic labor movement, labor history, or other labor information and resources, please drop us a line using the form on our contact us page.