LaborFest presents: Non-profits, Union Organizing & Independent Unions

Tuesday July 28, 2026 | 4:30 - 6:30 pm

at The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot venue | 835 Larkin St. SF, CA 94109

Free to attend | No registration required

Tenderloin Museum continues a years-long partnership with LaborFest, San Francisco’s annual month of grassroots labor programs, to present a panel on non-profit and NGO unionization. Note that because of the museum’s temporary closure, the venue is at The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot venue at 835 Larkin St.

Non-profit and NGO unionization is the fastest growing militant wing of the labor movement. Despite being ignored by the left media, these new mostly self-organized independent unions are taking on the “due gooder” myth of long hours, low wages and bad bosses—and they’re winning. Panelists include current and former non-profit & NGO workers and union staff union organizers. Much gratitude to Steve Zeltzer for organizing!

Panelists:
Robert Ovetz, moderator, Senior Lecturer, Political Science, SJSU
Author of the Rebels For the System: Non-Profits, NGOs, Capitalism and the Labor Movement (Haymarket Press 2027)
Katie Duberg, Bargaining Committee Member, CAWFC Workers United, CWA Local 9415, IG: @cawfcworkersunited
Fátima Murrieta, Pacific Northwest Staff Union (PNWSU), Writers Guild Staff Union NPEU, Shop Steward
Jeff Armstrong, PNWSU Organizing Officer