Webinar: Thursday, April 2 – COVID-19 & Worker Resistance

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Thursday, April 2
@ 7pm EDT/4pm PDT

Register to participate via
Zoom Video conference

Rent strikes. Instacart and Amazon strikes. Prisoner strikes. General strikes. The global impact of the COVID-19 Coronavirus has united the workers and oppressed in a common, worldwide struggle for health, safety, jobs and full pay during closings and layoffs. Rank-and-file resistance by workers — with or without unions — has closed schools, factories and workplaces in the interest of community health and called out bosses who are mistreating workers in the process.

Updated Speakers List!

Megan Smith – Whole Foods worker, member of Whole Worker and Workers World Party in Philadelphia
Dianne Mathiowetz – retired GM autoworker; member UAW #10; producer and co-host of The Labor Forum, WRFG 89.3FM
Teresa Gutierrez – Workers World Party in San Antonio
Martha Grevatt – retired autoworker and executive board of UAW Local 869, Workers World Managing Editor
André François – President of USW Local 8751 – Boston School Bus Drivers Union
Steven Kirschbaum – Vice President of USW Local 8751, Boston School Bus Drivers Union and Workers World Party organizer
Ted Kelly – Pennsylvania Prison Society and writer for Workers World
Nigel Bouvart – rent strike organizer in Buffalo, NY, with International Workers Solidarity Network
Virgilio Oran – organizer with the Laundry Workers Center in NYC
Dante Strobino – organizer with UE Local 150, North Carolina Public Sector Workers Union
Richard Kossally – union delegate, 1199 SEIU

Join Workers World Party as we discuss the growing worker resistance to the capitalist response to COVID-19. Speakers from the front lines will share experiences and strategize on building a united working class fightback.