For Labor Action Against The War & 11/4 National Labor Rank & File St. Louis Conference

November 4&5, 2006 St. Louis, MO

Nat Labor Rank and File Conference

Learn The Lessons Of The Past For The Struggles Today!

The good ship Labor is sinking and sinking fast while the so-called leaders of two deeply divided factions scramble to the bow to surrender to America¹s ruthless employers.

On one side, the AFL-CIO who promised a new voice for America¹s workers, has developed laryngitis and is doing nothing to fight for existing jobs or organize the unorganized. Totally void of democracy, effective fight-back strategies, or the will to involve or mobilize rank and file members, the AFL-CIO has refused to take action against the war in Iraq,the US supported Israeli attack on Lebanon and the Palestinians, the Patriot Act, and the devastating effects of Free Trade Agreements.

On the other side, the Change to Win Coalition CTW is sailing full steam ahead to Company Unionism, consolidating local unions, destroying rank and file democracy, and pirating union values to greedy, ruthless employers. SEIU, Carpenters, HERE-UNITE [Hotel Workers]and others in this sell out crowd are consolidating locals, disenfranchising their members, cozying up to employers, raiding work belonging to other unions, and representing employers against the interests of dues paying members.

The Labor Action Coalition is this type of network and invites non unionized workers to participate in this conference and become members of the LAC in order to raise the level of militancy and organization across the country.


Rebuilding our precious unions must be driven from the bottom up. Labor and social activists must build a network to challenge labor¹s frauds, provide support for striking and locked-out workers, and in the streets action to battle ruthless employers.

Join this important conference, share your ideas and help build this rank and file coalition. Join with the Labor Action Coalition [LAC], the War Zone Education Foundation and other rank and file groups and play an important role to get labor back on track. At P-9, Detroit News Strike, Staley, Caterpillar and Firestone in Decatur IL, and many other major struggles, it was the activist community that provided key support. We need to drastically expand this support and it will only happen if ordinary workers take the initiative.

Join us in St Louis Missouri on November 4th and 5th to put the fight back in our union movement; to force our so-called leaders to hear our voices, represent us, and stand against our Corporate Government¹s aggression towards workers worldwide.

Nov 4th and 5th 2006 American Postal Workers Union hall
1907 Locust Street St Louis, Missouri.
For more information contact: St. Louis 314-772-1970. Bay Area 415-867-0628 Midwest 217-428-6372 , 217-370-9778 , 309-224-7840, 773-935-5255 NY 212-864-7595
www.laboraction.org

National Rank and File Labor Conference
S.O.S. Help Save the Good Ship of Labor

Conference Agenda

Nov 4, 2006

8:00 am---9:00 Registration

9:00--11:00 am ----- Lessons from our past

Panelists -- Larry Solomon--Former UAW Local 1051 President From Caterpillar [retired]

Mike Griffin —WarZone" Education Foundation

Billy Robinson—Former president UAW local 2036 at Accuride Wheel

Tina Battefeld--- Boilermakers Union at Celenese in Meridosia IL

David Sladky---The Lessons At Budweiser, Teamster Distributors and the IBT

11:00---12:00 Lunch Break {local Resturaunts}

12:00—4:00—Labor's woes in the Present

Panelists-- Rob Wilson UAW at Caterpillar

Tim Kaminski UAW at Chrysler

Steve Zeltzer Operating Engineers San Francisco

David Johnson Carpenters Champaign IL

Daniel Villa NY

Greg Shotwell, UAW Delphi

4:00-5:30 Dinner{local Carry-outs} Labor videos in the hall



5:30---8:00--Where Do We GO From Here

Panelists Larry Solomon, Steve Zeltzer, Tim Kaminski

Nov 5, 2006

8:00-9:00 am Continuation- Where Do We Go From Here

9:00—1200 Open Conference Discussion Presentation an Voting of Resolutions



Registration fee-$10-$20 Sliding Scale Strikers and Locked Out Workers Free/No one turned away due to lack of funds.



Conference free to Striking, locked-out and unemployed workers.