Their is an uprising going on at UGSOA as 710 Security Police Professionals working for the State Department in Washington D.C., Virginia, Maryland, Colorado, Kentucky, New Orleans, Connecticut, California, South Carolina, Arizona and New York voted to DUMP UGSOA as their collective bargaining agent on 9/10/08. This was UGSOA's Largest Local Union.

No to the bailout! Workers need their own solutions. Let the bosses pay for their own mess. For a Labor Party based in fighting unions and oppressed communities.

This is the draft of an action plan for the working class to address the economic crisis on their own terms -- not those of Wall Street and the bosses.

On our first show we'll be talking about:
+The creation of the Unified Taxi Workers Alliance of PA
+Recent immigration raids targeting members of SEIU 32BJ
+UNITE HERE's boycott of Embassy Suites
+A day in the life of a center city cleaner
+The struggle to get workers' comp for cab drivers
+Plus music and other news

Today, there is a groundswell of opposition to the two corporate parties; recent polls show that 84 percent of all Americans are not satisfied with the leadership in Washington DC. Vice Presidential Candidate Stewart A. Alexander and labor organizer Steve Zeltzer believe working people are ready for change; they are hoping a national conference on labor could convene by May 2009 and use the struggle for May Day as a kickoff.

The troubling picture painted by Fletcher and Gapasin is of a labor movement that has been, as they articulate, “too pale, too stale, and too male” to address the everyday realities of working people and the poor. And the history of labor unions is one of missed opportunities and missteps, of acting too often as a cheerleader for predatory companies and policies and against the interests of labor, of allowing divide and conquer tactics to prevail at the expense of workers of color in the South and elsewhere, and of rubberstamping America’s foreign policy and antidemocratic tendencies toward empire building.