The Schools Our Students Deserve Coalition alongside labor unions, including LiUNA Local 1095, CWA Local 6143, AFSCME 2021, and UNITE HERE 23, are bringing together San Antonio workers and community members on Labor Day to send a clear message about Project Marvel - that it is unacceptable to spend hundreds of millions of public dollars on a new stadium, while underpaid teachers spend their own money preparing classrooms for the working class students of our urban core. That we should not be discussing massive public investment in sports entertainment downtown without addressing the struggles of working class families in our city.
San Antonio’s workers demand that such a huge investment in Project Marvel should come with an equal investment in public education, public transportation, affordable housing, and should create strong, well-paid union jobs during and post construction with sensible worker protections complete with family sustaining wages.
This Labor Day, thousands of communities across the country are fighting back against the billionaire takeover of our country. In San Antonio, that means standing up for the working people left out of the Project Marvel plan.