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SF Janitors To Picket Union Hall
SF janitors on will picket their union hall on August 19 to prostest the SEIU international trusteeship and the refusal to fight the bosses...
Posted: Wed, Aug 7, 2002 11:01pm PDT
8/25SF Forum On Relevance Of Argentina To US Workers
This forum and video screening will discuss and debate what the meaning of the Argentinian crisis for US workers. Do we face the same conditions in the US?...
Posted: Wed, Aug 7, 2002 10:56pm PDT
Delta Dental Strike Update; Photos Needed
The clerical workers at Delta Dental insurance continue their boisterous picket at First and Mission Streets, San Francisco. We need photos on this website of this milestone labor struggle....
Posted: Tue, Aug 6, 2002 8:13am PDT
Santa Rosa March for Immigrant Workers (photo essay pt 2)
(Photo essay - may take several minutes to load.)...
Posted: Fri, Aug 2, 2002 7:47pm PDT
Hotel Workers Action in Berkeley: Photos
Fifty were arrested in a demonstration August 1 which brought out 500 supporters to stand up for the rights of hotel workers and call for a boycott of the Claremont Hotel....
Posted: Fri, Aug 2, 2002 6:37pm PDT
Hotel Workers Action in Berkeley: Photo and Story
Fifty were arrested in a demonstration August 1 which brought out 500 supporters to stand up for the rights of hotel workers and call for a boycott of the Claremont Hotel. See story below....
Posted: Fri, Aug 2, 2002 6:28pm PDT
Workers First March & Rally
Workers 1st March & Rally on August 1st...
Posted: Tue, Jul 30, 2002 9:29am PDT
ILWU July 24th Rally (video/quicktime 3.9MB)
Overall view of the rally where the ILWU and allies challenged the shipping lines.
2 min. 4MB...
Posted: Mon, Jul 29, 2002 9:21am PDT
March For Immigrant Rights!
A march and rally to support immigrants rights. Legalization for all! Driver's license for all!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 2:13pm PDT
San Francisco ILWU rally
A surprise speaker (can't hardly call him a "guest" speaker) at the ILWU rally challenging the Pacifica Maritime Asso. July 24th at Calif.&Kearney. 25 sec. preview (.7MB) version; & full length version: 5 min. (9.5MB). Bigger versions on my web site....
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 9:25am PDT
ILWU West Coast Contract Negotiations:
Negotiations between the ILWU representing West Coast dockers and the maritime employers are stalling. Another opportunity looms for the leadership of a potentially powerful trade union to push the employers on to the defensive but will the ILWU and AFL-CIO leadership seize the time?...
Posted: Tue, Jul 23, 2002 11:23pm PDT
Delta Dental Workers Strike in SF
Delta Dental clerical workers are on strike in San Francisco, with a picketline at First and Mission Streets, across from the East Bay Transit Terminal....
Posted: Tue, Jul 23, 2002 7:48pm PDT
7/22SF Protest Against CTC Lottery
Speakout Against a Lottery that has thrown local community tv producers and programmers in San Francisco. Testify at the San Francisco Telecommunications Commission at SF City Hall....
Posted: Sat, Jul 20, 2002 8:09pm PDT
Fight back! Rally to defend portworkers' rights - 7/24
FIGHTBACK!
Rally to Defend Portworkers' Rights...
Posted: Sat, Jul 20, 2002 4:33pm PDT
Portworkers Solidarity Rally--Wed. 7/24
There will be a rally at 12:00 noon on Wed., July 24, 2002 at 550 California Street, San Francisco. The Bush administration and the world’s largest corporations are now attempting to break theILWU, one of this nation’s strongest, most democratic and most egalitarian unions. If the government/corporate alliance succeeds in eliminating the ILWU hiring hall, this union will essentially be broken, and a cascade of others can not be far behind....
Posted: Sat, Jul 20, 2002 4:27pm PDT
July 19-26 LaborFest Schedule
TIPS is being tossed because enough people have learned the lessons of the last fascist era in the 1950s, with its primary goal of destroying labor organizations, to protest as soon as we smell a whiff of that same old fascist stench. To learn that history, other labor history, and participate in today's labor cultural activities, come to the best thing happening in July in the SF Bay Area, LaborFest....
Posted: Thu, Jul 18, 2002 8:15pm PDT
NORTH WEST ANARCHIST-COMMUNIST ORGANIZING NETWORK (NWACON) NWan-comm list
Greetings
After some discussion, and looking at the example of the NEFAC, we have
set up a list in order to try to start a process to create an northwest federation....
Posted: Wed, Jul 17, 2002 7:10pm PDT
Marriott Strike Update
The strike at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel entered its sixth week yesterday....
Posted: Sun, Jul 14, 2002 11:34pm PDT
Mayor Punishes Community Program for Worker Protest
On 7/15, outraged service providers and laborers rally against mayor's funding retaliation against the San Francisco Day Labor Program....
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2002 11:17am PDT