SEATTLE DSA MEMBERS SHOW SUPPORT FOR STRIKING BOEING MACHINISTS
After voting overwhelmingly to reject Boeing’s Tentative Agreement, machinists with International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 751 went on strike across the Puget Sound. And Seattle DSA members were there standing shoulder to shoulder with them. Spirits were high as fireworks kicked off the strike in Everett and boisterous chants erupted down in Renton and Auburn.
The Striking Boeing Machinists are demanding living wages, some Machinists are making as low as $17/hr! With inflation devouring more of workers wages, this is clearly not enough to live on. They are also demanding improved pensions - rejecting the 401K model and demanding a pension - better healthcare and safe working conditions. Boeing has paid their top executives $817 million and showered Wall Street investors with $68 billion in dividends and stock buybacks over the past decade!
Dozens of Seattle DSA members made it down to the Renton plant on Saturday, representing a diverse set of workers including comrades with Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, Washington Education Association, Seattle Education Association, Tumwater Association of Paraeducators, UNITE HERE, Washington Federation of State Employees, Service Employees International Union, Office and Professional Employees International Union, and student organizers with United Auto Workers.
As workers, we recognize Boeing machinists’ fight for living wages and pensions are one and the same with all workers’ fight for a fair wage and safe working conditions everywhere - an injury to one, is an injury to all!. As democratic socialists, however, we fight for a socialist world where workers have the democratic right to decide on matters that affect them: from the shop floor to their city government, their tenant building to matters of national politics. Only through solidarity backed by action will we win!
Join a picket line with other Seattle DSA members! In particular the evening and graveyard shifts (8-12, 12-4) need support. If possible, please check in at the union hall before going. Here’s the union hall locations:
Seattle: 9125 15th Pl S
Renton: 233 Burnett Ave N
Auburn: 201 A St SW
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Social Housing Candidate Forum
Featuring Shaun Scott!
This Tuesday, 9/17 6pm
International District/Chinatown Community Center
718 8th Ave S
RSVP
Join us at the Social Housing Candidate Forum held by House our Neighbors to hear from candidates running for the 43rd LD and City Council Position 8.
SDSA endorsed 43rd LD candidate and SDSA member, Shaun Scott, will square off against an empty chair as his corporate funded opponent, Andrea Suarez, cowardly backed out of the forum. Scott stands with working people as an advocate for funding social housing through taxing rich corporations, curbing landlord profiteering through statewide rent control, and re-balancing the power differential between tenants and landlords through strong renter protections. Come hear Scott’s socialist vision for housing!
The Housing Justice Working Group will meet for an informal social after the forum.
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General Election Canvass for Shaun Scott
This Thurs. 9/19, 6 PM
Wallingford Playfield: RSVP HERE
This Sat. 9/21, 11am
B.F. Day Playground: RSVP HERE
The general election is just 8 weeks away! These past two weekends, we’ve kicked off our field operation for the general, emphasizing Shaun’s socialist policy platform. Shaun’s commitment to fighting budget cuts and fully funding our public schools by taxing the ultra-rich and big business, resonated powerfully with voters across the spectrum. Recently the Seattle School Board announced its planning on closing up to 21 Elementary schools - the biggest closure of schools in the country! We can’t wait to hit the doors again this week to send a working class champion to Olympia this November!
Just this weekend, the Seattle Times endorsed his right-wing, pro-corporate Democratic Party opponent Andrea Suarez. The endorsement piece praises Suarez as a “maverick”, sanitizes the history of her corrupt and destructive non-profit WeHeartSeattle, refers to Shaun as an extremist, and highlights Seattle DSA’s endorsement of Shaun Scott. We’re going to have to fight back as pro-corporate and pro-developer forces align behind Andrea Suarez.
Who is Shaun Scott? Read more about him here.
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