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NLRB feels ‘street heat’ The streets outside the National Labor Relations Board office in Washington were sizzling, and it wasn’t just the July heat. For the first time in its 70-year history, the board was shut down for two hours July 13 as nine union and religious leaders, backed by 1,500 labor supporters, blocked traffic outside. It was a pre-emptive strike on a pending NLRB decision on three potentially far-reaching cases....
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 7:01pm PDT
Show Solidarity with Blue Diamond Workers! Report on action by Blue Diamond Workers, unionists, and supports, and the Almond Board meeting in Modesto CA!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 9:37am PDT
Oakland General Strike 60th anniversary celebration events 7/22 & 7/23 
The 60th Anniversary Celebration of the Oakland General Strike will be on Saturday, July, 22nd at 6 p.m. at the YWCA of Oakland, 1515 Webster (at 15th St.).
And the Oakland General Strike Walk will be on Sunday, July 23rd at 2 p.m. The walk will meet at Latham Square, where Broadway and Telegraph converge, where the streets of Oakland in 1946 were full with working class people singing and dancing during their “Work Holiday.” The nearest BART station is 12th St./Oakland City Center BART...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 7:47am PDT
San Francisco Minimum Wage Enforcement Legislation Passes received on 7/18...
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 10:45pm PDT
The failed effort to get together a transit system fare strike in San Francisco in 2005 MUNI SOCIAL STRIKEOUT: A critique of our efforts to foment a mass "self-reduction" movement on San Francisco's Muni public transit system.
The various leaflets refered to in the text of this article will soon be available, along with the article itself, on my web page, 'Love and Treason,' at
http://www.infoshop.org/myep/love2.html...
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 6:16pm PDT
7/19 Greet CA Gov In SF The union busting anti-labor governor ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER will be visiting SF on Wednesday
to talk about his plans with Asia.
Join injured workers and others protesting his destruction of Cal-Osha, his terrorizing and
destroying the lives and families of injured workers at 11:30 AM....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 11:28am PDT
KPFA Local Station Board meeting Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, 1111 Addison/San Pablo near University Ave....
Event Date: Sat, Aug 19, 2006 11:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 3:30pm PDT
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
Oakland: International Working Class Film & Video Festival Fellowship of Humanity Hall
370 27th St. near Broadway, Oakland...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 3:34pm PDT
SF: Poetry-Labor, War and Immigration Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St. near 20th St., San Francisco...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 3:26pm PDT
SF: Labor and Organizing: Lessons for Labor ILWU Local 6 Hall
255 9th Street, near Howard, San Francisco...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 3:22pm 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
San Jose: The Struggle for Women's Rights, Worker Rights, and Economic Development in Haiti Today SEIU Local 715 Union Hall, Great Room (2nd Floor)
2302 Zanker Rd., San Jose...
Event Date: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 8:55pm 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
Upton Sinclair's Jungle: A Read-Aloud Event EXIT Theatre
156 Eddy Street, San Francisco, near the Powell Street BART...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 15, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 1:11am PDT
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