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UFCW Local 8: Members Pay With No Say! It's 4 months since Loveall's “bigger is better Local 8 Golden State”merger mania - which robbed Local 588 member's of their democratic right - came into effect. Mergers at election time in the Loveall rich local have facilitated one Loveall (and now another) to warm the 588 Presidential throne for over two decades....
Posted: Sat, Aug 5, 2006 7:48am PDT
Join Us in Solidarity with the Hotel Workers: An Invitation to be a part of the Fight! 
UNITE HERE to hold discussion, organize for new campaign named 'Hotel Workers Rising', to lift standards in the hospitality industry here in Sacramento. The meeting will take place on Wednesday, August 9th, from 1-2PM at the Sierra 2 School, Rom 10 (2791 24th St)...
Posted: Wed, Aug 2, 2006 2:18pm PDT
CA Political Candidates Demand The Resignation Of Safeway Inc./FAC Chair William Zachry California candidates for insurance commissioner, Congress and Governor called for the
removal of Safeway Inc VP and Fraud Assesment Chair William Zachry at a press conference
in front of the California Insurance Department on July 31, 2006...
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 8:07pm PDT
Thousands Rally to Support UNITEHERE Local 2 Contract Fight Yesterday afternoon, hotel workers, community leaders, and concerned residents joined UNITEHERE Local 2 in a march against San Francisco’s global hotel industry. Local 2 represents nearly 12,000 workers in San Francisco and San Mateo in their fight for improved working standards in hotels and restaurants. Yesterday’s march in support of UNITEHERE Local 2 is the start of a renewed community-labor effort to bring justice to hotel workers in the city. “I want to retire from this industry pain fr...
Posted: Sat, Jul 29, 2006 9:55am PDT
7/31 Sacramento Press Conference/Picket To Demand Removal Of FAC Chair William Zachary Injured Workers and California candidates for insurance commissioner will be having a press
confernce at the offices of the California Department of Insurance to demand the removal
of William Zachry who is chair of the Fraud Assessment Commission and also a vice president
of risk management (insurance) for the Safeway Corporation. Zachry was instrumental in
helping to deregulate Workers' Comp and bringing in SB899....
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2006 6:08pm PDT
Support the Hotel Workers! 
A thousand hotel workers and their supporters rallied in Union Square and then marched past some of the hotels that they have called a boycott of in downtown San Francisco...
Posted: Thu, Jul 27, 2006 9:41pm PDT
Siege at the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco by HERE Local 2 
Members of The Hotel Employee's and Resturant Employee's Union local 2 staged a siege, a temporary picket line, Friday, July 21, 2006 in front of the Hilton Hotel on O'Farrell Street to highlight the fact that the Union's contract with the hotel expired on August 14 2004....
Posted: Tue, Jul 25, 2006 10:32pm PDT
Commemorate 1916 Uprising and Role Of Irish Workers In SF Earthquake Join LaborFest on July 25, 2006 at 7:00 PM at the Irish Cultural Center when it celebrates the 1916
Uprising and the role of Irish workers in rebuilding San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. The event
will include poetry, music, film and theater....
Posted: Tue, Jul 25, 2006 9:35am PDT
Injured Workers Speak Out on Workers’ Compensation Reforms Several workers who had been injured on the job testified at a hearing in Oakland June 29 before the Division of Workers’ Compensation. The state is seeking to modify some of the ‘reforms’ enacted in 2003 which have had a severe impact on injured workers who face delays in medical treatment, denial of compensation, and a bureaucratic nightmare dealing with a system that is biased towards employers and insurance companies....
Posted: Sat, Jul 22, 2006 11:13am PDT
UC Unions, Employees Protest Pension Plan Changes Employees of the UC system are protesting plans to make workers contribute a portion of their salary to their retirement plan. Julia Harte is an intern at New America Media....
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 9:01pm PDT
IWW Shattuck Cinema theater workers initiate contract struggle against management IWW memebers including Sharon, Jason and Bryan from Shattuck Cinemas and Bay Area IWW members Harjit and Leo met for four hours on Thursday to present contract proposals to Landmark corporate hired gun attorney Tom Pavone....
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 2:45am 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
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
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