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UNITE HERE! Hotel Strike Will Unleash Perfect Storm Either out of arrogance, ignorance or both, San Francisco’s global hotels are seeking to provoke a hotel strike. Local managers employed by the Multi-Employer Group (MEG) of 13 hotels are powerless in the dispute, as decisions are being made at the hotel’s international corporate headquarters. The legal arrangement among the MEG allows a single hotel to hold up a settlement, which means that the most anti-union stance dictates bargaining for all 13. A hotel strike in September 2006 would unif...
Posted: Mon, Aug 28, 2006 7:28am PDT
Hotel Workers Authorize Strike - 93% Vote Yes Hotel workers voted in overwhelming numbers yesterday to give our union leadership the authority to call a strike if necessary. Over 93% of the workers who came out for the series of mass meetings voted for the strike authorization -- 2,241 to be exact, while a mere 168 voted no. Significantly, nearly 60% of the workers in the Multi-Employer Group (MEG) bargaining unit turned out for the vote....
Posted: Sun, Aug 27, 2006 9:32am PDT
IWW Rally At Shattuck Cinemas, IWW Party At Humanist Hall 
This year, the General Assembly of the Industrial Workers of the World will be hosted by the San Francisco Bay Area General Membership Branch at the Humanist Hall in Oakland, California, at 390 27th Street. On Friday Sept. 1st, the day before the Assembly is called to order, the IWW will be recieving Fellow Workers from throughout the Union at its headquarters in the Grassroots House in Berkeley at 2022 Blake St., just west of Shattuck....
Posted: Sat, Aug 26, 2006 4:08pm PDT
Hotel Workers Strike Vote Today Reports of voting by mid-afternoon appear to show strong support for strike authorization. Final totals will be released tonight...
Posted: Fri, Aug 25, 2006 6:29am PDT
9/4 Labor & Immigrants Rights March on Market in SF Labor Day, September 4, 2006, we are having a second, and hopefully bigger and better, labor and immigrants rights march this year in San Francisco on Market Street from the Embarcadero to the Civic Center, with a rally at 10 a.m. and the march at 11 a.m....
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 7:51pm PDT
8/29 AC ATU192 Bus Drivers To Protest In Oakland ATU 192 AC bus drivers will be protesting at the AC Transit HQ over harrassment and
mismanagement of the bus agency....
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 4:58pm PDT
SUPPORT THE UNITED FARM WORKERS -- BOYCOTT CHARLES KRUG AND MONDAVI WINES! ASK BEVERAGES AND MORE (BEVMO), the largest California wine superstore chain with 54 locations, to remain neutral in this dispute and not carry Charles Krug wines until a fair contract is renegotiated....
Posted: Wed, Aug 23, 2006 11:37pm PDT
March for Immigrant, Worker and Community Justice Start : 10 am Justin Herman Plaza at the Embarcadero
March: 11:00 am to Civic Center...
Event Date: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 10:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 11:23am PDT
Hunger Strikers at City Hall (video/quicktime 18.8MB) Mayor Gavin Newsom accused of union-busting by eleven DPW workers who still are denied their jobs. Three-minute QT movie. 19MB....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 11:23pm PDT
Support the IWW workers at Shattuck Cinemas 
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Posted: Sun, Aug 20, 2006 8:35am PDT
8/24 Premier Doc Screening "Rebuilding San Francisco: The Workers Story" & N. CA TV Schedu There will be a premier screening of the new documentary
"Rebuilding San Francisco 1906-1910"
"The Workers Story"
on November 24, 2006 and it will also be programmed on PBS channels in the bay area during
the Labor Day Weekend....
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 3:15pm PDT
Labor Center offers Latino Leadership School - Centro Laboral Ofrece Escuela de Liderazgo 
We would like to announce the Latino Leadership School that the UC Berkeley Labor Center, UCLA Labor Center, Latino Issues Forum are organizing with the sponsorship of the Central Valley Partnership....
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 10:16am PDT
Who's Hijacking Who? Injured Workers To Protest and Speakout in Oakland on August 23 Carrie Nevins, the acting director of the Division of Workers Compensation has charged that
injured workers "hijacked" her hearing on workers compensation. The attack on injured workers
is part of the drive by insurance companies which control her agency to terroize injured workers
and force them to go to SSI, Disability Insurance and public hospitals to get their care taken
care of . Injured workers will speak out and picket on August 23 at the Oakland State Building...
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 6:16pm PDT
IWW Shattuck Cinema Workers, Management Discuss Grievances 
By Riya Bhattacharjee - Berkeley Daily Planet, August 11, 2006...
Posted: Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:17am PDT
Young Workers United Hot in the City Update An update of Young Workers United activities the summer of 2006 including cases won, organizing campaigns, and news on paid sick days....
Posted: Fri, Aug 11, 2006 4:39pm PDT
Premiere of "Nurses Vs. Arnold" Movie//Prop. 89 Event Grand Lake Thater--3200 Grand Av. in Oaklant...
Event Date: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 3:23pm PDT
8/21 Laid Off DPW Workers to Hold Hunger Strike in SF WHAT: Week-long hunger strike and vigil; Press Conference on Monday, August
21, 10 am, Front steps of City Hall.
WHERE: SF City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl.
WHEN: Monday, August 21, 8 am to Friday, August 25, 5 pm....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 11:54am PDT
8/11 SF Newspaper Workers Protest SF Chron Hearst Corp SF Chronicle Pressmen will be protesting the attacks on the union on Friday August 11. 2006 at
noon in front of the SF Chronicle at 5th & Mission St....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 7:35am PDT
Coalition for Paid Sick Days Presents Case Last week the Coalition for Paid Sick Days presented before the Board of Supervisors the case for San Francisco’s ailing workers. Today, the coalition, which consists of Young Workers United, the Chinese Progressive Association, SEIU-Committee of Interns and Residents, Center for Young Women’s Development, and Young Community Developers, continues to perfect the legislation that will go onto the November 2006 ballot. The proposal is expected to go through with the support of supervisors Peski...
Posted: Mon, Aug 7, 2006 7:11am PDT
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