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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
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
IWW Organizing Update - Shattuck Theater Workers Union Rally 
Bay Area General Membership Branch Group...
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 3:46am PDT
Bay Area Nurses Take to the Streets 
Three hundred nurses and allies marched in Oakland July 11th to demand protection of right to organize and advocate for patients....
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 4:29pm PDT
7/14 SF Hilton Siege Picket San Francisco HERE UNITE Local 2 workers are still without contracts for 4,000 workers. On
Friday July 14, 2006 from 12 noon to 6:00 PM there will be a Hilton Siege Picket at the SF Hilton
which is located at O'Farrell and Mason St. San Francisco...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 12:54pm PDT
7/11 Protest In Oakland Over NLRB Union Busting The NLRB is seeking to prevent supervisors from being in unions. This will eliminate many
workers from being members of unions including the CNA, ILWU, IUOE and others....
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 11:25am PDT
SF: International Working Class Film & Video Festival Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 9:03pm PDT
SF: Writers Workshop With Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz The Exit Theatre
156 Eddy St., San Francisco (near Powell BART station)...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 8:58pm PDT
Labor Fest- Presente! (Book Reading) Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St. at 20th, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 8:51pm PDT
8/5 SF Forum/Video "Which Way For The SEIU & The Future Of Change To Win CTW"
Which Way For The SEIU
& The Future Of Change To Win (CTW) One year ago, a new national labor federation was founded called Change To Win CTW. This
forum will look at what this new federation has done and also the developments within the
1.8 million SEIU including the merger of hundreds of thousands of members in California....
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 11:36am PDT
LaborFest Opens July 5, 2006 The annual international working class labor cultural arts and film festival LaborFest will be
opening on Wednesday July 5,2005, The festival commemorates the San Francisco General
Strike of 1934 through art, music, theater, film and poetry. Many events are free or low cost.
The San Francisco 1934 General Strike began on July 5 when two workers were murdered by
San Francisco police....
Posted: Sun, Jul 2, 2006 9:37am PDT
7/6 Oakland Protest "Stop Corporate Murder and Terror Against Injured Workers!" Injured workers and their supporters will be protesting at the Oakland California State Building
1515 Clay St. in Oakland on July 6 at 9:30 AM against the premedidated murder of injured workers by
insurance companies and their lawyers and doctors. They will also attend the hearing of the
DIR Commission On Health and Safety and Workers Compensation and speak out about
the criminal activities of these insurance companies and the cover-up by Insurance Commission
Garmendi and Attorney Genera...
Posted: Sat, Jul 1, 2006 5:09pm PDT
Oakland: March to the Federal Building to Save Right to Organize March to the Federal Building @ 1301 Clay Street, Oakland (off 12th Street BART)...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 11:30am PDT
Posted: Sat, Jul 1, 2006 1:07am PDT
Peacetalks: Interview with Dr. Ann Lopez NAFTA and Immigration (audio/mpeg 35.6MB) Interview with Dr. Ann Lopez on NAFTA and the effects on Immigration and the environment....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 7:30am PDT
No Decision Reached On Wage Ordinance After a weeklong delay, the wage implementation and enforcement ordinance underwent further deliberation but received no decision at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. The legislation on the table seeks to secure a steady source of funding for implementing San Francisco’s minimum wage law. The law, brought into effect with the passing of Proposition L in November 2003, increased the city’s minimum wage to $8.82 per hour, a full $2 above California’s minimum wage rate. Unfortunately, over...
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 6:30am PDT
Oakland: Meeting Face to Face: the Iraq-U.S. Solidarity Tour Humanist Hall
390 27th Street
midtown Oakland, between Telegraph and Broadway, below Pill Hill
http://www.HumanistHall.net...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 10:57pm PDT
David Bacon: Children of NAFTA (audio/mpeg 27.5MB) For over fifteen years, David Bacon has been a documentary photographer, covering labor movements, immigration, and international politics. His background as a labor organizer with UFW, UEW, ILGW, and other unions, gives Bacon a unique perspective on migration, and the struggle for worker's rights. David Bacon spoke on Friday, June 23 in Watsonville, about his recent book, The Children of NAFTA. TRT- 29:58...
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 4:54pm PDT
6,000 CONTRA COSTA COUNTY EMPLOYEES ANNOUNCE JUNE 27 STRIKE DATE (June 20, 2006--Martinez, CA) After a year of bargaining, the labor unions making up the Contra Costa County Labor Coalition representing over 6,000 workers in Contra Costa County will strike on Tuesday, June 27. The countywide strike will affect every County office and facility from Richmond to Brentwood and from Danville to Martinez, including the Martinez Medical Center, the Pittsburg and Richmond Clinics....
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 9:49pm PDT
Bay Area Teachers Support Oaxaca Colleagues (video/quicktime 22.7MB) On Friday, June 16th, Teachers for Social Justice called a picket at the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco. Thirty Bay Area teachers delivered a letter of concern which the Consulate promised to forward to the PRI governor of Oaxaca. Karen Zapata, Teachers for Social Justice; Dennis Kelly, United Educators of San Francisco; and, Ed Murray, San Francisco Community College Federation of Teachers, spoke. Four-minute QT movie. 23MB....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 9:37pm PDT
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