Black May Day: SEIU Black Workers/Community at SF General Join Fight Against Racism & Union

Black May Day SEIU Black Workers & Community At SF General Join Fight Against Union Busting & Racism

UCSF UPTE striking workers rallied on International Workers Day at SF General Hospital and Black workers and community activists held a Black May Day and spoke out about the strike and the systemic racism. UC management and regents are spending millions on union busting lawyers and there is an attack on all public workers. Black workers in SEIU 1021 at General Hospital & the schools and community members spoke out about the systemic racists conditions and attacks facing Black workers and community members who have been murdered and pushed out of San Francisco.

Speakers also connected the struggle against the genocide in Gaza with the attacks on workers at UCSF who are speaking out to defend the Palestinian people. They also reported on the contracting out and destruction of public jobs using so called "non-profits" t destroy the public sector.

UCSF suspended Dr. Rupa Marya also spoke about the UC managements attempts to fire her for speaking out about the systemic racism against Black, Brown and Native American patients and also against the US supported genocide on Gaza.

Mothers who have lost their children also spoke out and their fight for justice and the role of systemic racism in the healthcare system.

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