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Protest Banning Of KPFA Labor Collective Programming
The voice of local and state labor activism is being muzzled by listener sponsored Pacifica radio station KPFA. Next Local Station Board meeting: Saturday August 19, 2006, 11:00 AM at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley 1111 Addison/San Pablo near University Ave. Meeting is open to the public....
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 3:16pm PDT
CA Peace and Freedom Party Statement on Workers' Compensation Scandal
The California state legislature has been investigating massive institutional malfeasance inside the California State's Division of Workers' Compensation. Injured workers are sickening and dying because of denial of just claims....
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 2:21pm PDT
Shattuck Cinema Workers Rally on Saturday July 22
Shattuck Workers Rally on Saturday July 22 at 2pm at Shattuck Cinemas, 2230 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley....
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 4:52am PDT
Quicksilver Messengers submit their demands. It was almost TOO easy.
Quicksilver Messengers submit their demands. It was almost TOO easy....
Posted: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 6:46am PDT
Shattuck Union Workers Prepare for Contract Negotiations-- Support Rally Saturday, July 22
Workers at Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley recently unionized with the Industrial Workers of the World. They're holding a rally on Saturday, July 22nd at 2pm to keep pressure on the company and ensure that they get a good contract....
Posted: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 12:57pm PDT
Decision in San Francisco
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will decide this Monday and Tuesday, July 10 and 11, on legislation for healthcare and the minimum wage laws....
Posted: Sat, Jul 15, 2006 2:40pm PDT
Shattuck Cinema Workers Prepare for Contract Negotiations; Support Rally on Saturday June
By Mary Loritz - July 14, 2006...
Posted: Sat, Jul 15, 2006 7:54am PDT
Fresno Living Wage
The campaign for a living wage for the city of Fresno launches a new website at www.livingwage-fresno.org....
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 9:00am PDT
IWW Organizing Update - Shattuck Theater Workers Union Rally
Bay Area General Membership Branch Group...
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 3:46am PDT
Bay Area Nurses Take to the Streets
Three hundred nurses and allies marched in Oakland July 11th to demand protection of right to organize and advocate for patients....
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 4:29pm PDT
7/14 SF Hilton Siege Picket
San Francisco HERE UNITE Local 2 workers are still without contracts for 4,000 workers. On
Friday July 14, 2006 from 12 noon to 6:00 PM there will be a Hilton Siege Picket at the SF Hilton
which is located at O'Farrell and Mason St. San Francisco...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 12:54pm PDT
7/11 Protest In Oakland Over NLRB Union Busting
The NLRB is seeking to prevent supervisors from being in unions. This will eliminate many
workers from being members of unions including the CNA, ILWU, IUOE and others....
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 11:25am PDT
SF: International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 9:03pm PDT
SF: Writers Workshop With Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The Exit Theatre
156 Eddy St., San Francisco (near Powell BART station)...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 8:58pm PDT
Labor Fest- Presente! (Book Reading)
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St. at 20th, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 8:51pm PDT
8/5 SF Forum/Video "Which Way For The SEIU & The Future Of Change To Win CTW"
Which Way For The SEIU
& The Future Of Change To Win (CTW)
One year ago, a new national labor federation was founded called Change To Win CTW. This
forum will look at what this new federation has done and also the developments within the
1.8 million SEIU including the merger of hundreds of thousands of members in California....
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 11:36am PDT
LaborFest Opens July 5, 2006
The annual international working class labor cultural arts and film festival LaborFest will be
opening on Wednesday July 5,2005, The festival commemorates the San Francisco General
Strike of 1934 through art, music, theater, film and poetry. Many events are free or low cost.
The San Francisco 1934 General Strike began on July 5 when two workers were murdered by
San Francisco police....
Posted: Sun, Jul 2, 2006 9:37am PDT
7/6 Oakland Protest "Stop Corporate Murder and Terror Against Injured Workers!"
Injured workers and their supporters will be protesting at the Oakland California State Building
1515 Clay St. in Oakland on July 6 at 9:30 AM against the premedidated murder of injured workers by
insurance companies and their lawyers and doctors. They will also attend the hearing of the
DIR Commission On Health and Safety and Workers Compensation and speak out about
the criminal activities of these insurance companies and the cover-up by Insurance Commission
Garmendi and Attorney Genera...
Posted: Sat, Jul 1, 2006 5:09pm PDT
Oakland: March to the Federal Building to Save Right to Organize
March to the Federal Building @ 1301 Clay Street, Oakland (off 12th Street BART)...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 11:30am PDT
Posted: Sat, Jul 1, 2006 1:07am PDT