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A scandal involving the trade union-owned Labour and Economics Bank (Bawag) has revealed the true extent of the rottenness of the Austrian trade union movement. The Austrian trade union federation (OEGB) is currently experiencing the deepest crisis in its more-than-50-year history....
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 7:03am PDT
There are too many U.S. grocery chain stores, said George Whalin, head of Retail Management Consultants, in The Sacramento Bee of June 7. Call it overcapacity in the grocery industry....
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 11:40am PDT
Noble Tower Apartments at 1515 Lakeside Drive, Downtown Oakland. Between 4:45 and 5pm, the action will move over to the Park Bellevue Towers at the Corner of Perkins and Bellevue.
also, a meeting:
Thursday, June 14, 7:00 pm
CWA Local 9415 Union Hall...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 2:51pm PDT
Gays have a new role: uniting the Republican Party and protecting innocents from diversionary U.S. bombs. Surely the president, the writer says, is finally finding his stride. Sandip Roy is an editor for New America Media and host of "UpFront," a NAM weekly radio program on KALW-91.7 FM, San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 6:47am PDT
On June 6th, UC Santa Cruz students and workers held multiple rallies and confronted Chancellor Denice Denton to demand affirmative diversity on campus. Workers and students are charging UCSC with active institutional racism and sexism by sustaining hidden systematic policies and practices that have the effect of disadvantaging students, faculty and workers of color. Affirmative diversity means actively working against the status quo of institutional racism and sexism at UCSC. The Diversity C...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 1:43am PDT
The fight to free Mumia confronts the full force of the capitalist state’s system of injustice that originally framed up this innocent man and is still determined to see him dead. Federal and state courts have barred any of the evidence proving his innocence, including the sworn confession of Arnold Beverly that he, not Mumia, shot and killed Faulkner....
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 9:51pm PDT
By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
Posted on June 6, 2006, Printed on June 6, 2006
You turn into a middle-class, suburban housing project on the periphery of Charlottesville, Virginia, and at a row of attached homes, you pull up in front of the one with the yellow "for sale" sign on the tiny patch of grass. We step out for a minute, on a balmy late spring afternoon, and she says, "You know what I need out here? Flowers!" And it's true, the nearest neighbor's small por...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:21pm PDT
STUDENTS AND WORKERS RALLY TO DEMAND AFFIRMATIVE DIVERSITY!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:05pm PDT
LaborFest is an annual cultural, arts music celebration to commemorate the 1934 San Francsico
General Strike. This year it also commemorates the 120th anniversary of Haymarket, the 100th
Anniversary of the rebuilding of San Francisco after the earthquake and the 60th anniversary of
the Oakland general strike in 1946....
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 7:14pm PDT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 5, 2006...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 6:17pm PDT
By x345292 - Industrial Worker, June 2006...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 11:13am PDT
As Albertsons workers in Northern Ca wait their fate to see if they will be among many of the rumored store closers there is one Alberston worker that is not just going to take it!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 9:24pm PDT
Vicente Fox threatens over 70,000 public schoolteachers in Oaxaca with police repression following a 12 day strike, walkout and encampment in Oaxaca City. Once again V. Fox fulfills his nickname of imperialist lapdog by using the Mexican military to silence worker's dissent.....
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 9:04pm PDT
SF Bay Guardian explanation of why it is opposing Proposition D...
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 12:30am PDT
Opinion from the SF Bay Guardian on Proposition D. Written by Belinda Lyons who is the executive director of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. This op-ed is also endorsed by Steve Fields, cochair of the San Francisco Human Services Network; Bill Hirsh, executive director of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel; and Herb Levine, executive director of the Independent Living Resource Center....
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 12:24am PDT
US employment grew by only 75,000 jobs in May, the smallest increase in seven months and down 40 percent from April’s figure. The rise was considerably smaller than expected, and it comes as only one of numerous indicators point to a slowing American economy....
Posted: Sat, Jun 3, 2006 11:29am PDT
More than a dozen family members of the five miners who died in a May 20 explosion at a Harlan County, Kentucky coal mine picketed outside a closed-door hearing Wednesday where federal and state investigators were questioning dozens of executives from Kentucky Darby LLC, as well as mine employees, about the circumstances that led to the tragedy. The families had been barred from attending the hearing and asking any questions because authorities said the state wanted witnesses to be as comfort...
Posted: Sat, Jun 3, 2006 11:24am PDT
The Shattuck Cinema Theater Workers will have their NLRB sponsored union election on Friday, June 16, 2006....
Posted: Fri, Jun 2, 2006 3:11am PDT
By Judith Scherr - Berkeley Daily Planet, May 30, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 3:54am PDT
Why SB 840,
the California Health
Insurance Reliability Act
is important to Labor...
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 10:18am PDT