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Affirmative Diversity Talking Points STUDENTS AND WORKERS RALLY TO DEMAND AFFIRMATIVE DIVERSITY!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:05pm PDT
LaborFest July 2006 Schedule/Calendar 
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
Students and Workers Rally to Demand Affirmative Diversity FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 5, 2006...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 6:17pm PDT
IWW Fabric store workers make gains with new contract 
By x345292 - Industrial Worker, June 2006...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 11:13am PDT
Albertsons Two - Tiered Structure 
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
Proposition D, Laguna Honda zoning changes SF Bay Guardian explanation of why it is opposing Proposition D...
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 12:30am PDT
Rally for IWW Shattuck Cinema Theater Workers in Berkeley 
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
Shattuck Cinemas Employees To Vote on Forming a Union 
By Judith Scherr - Berkeley Daily Planet, May 30, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 3:54am PDT
June 26 Single-Payer SF Labor Council Forum Why SB 840,
the California Health
Insurance Reliability Act
is important to Labor...
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 10:18am PDT
UCSC Workers, Students Grill Chancellor, Give June 5 Deadline 
On Tuesday, May 23, UC Santa Cruz's custodians, part of the union AFSCME, continued their hard-fought wage parity campaign by staging a respectful protest inside Chancellor Denice Denton's Brown Bag event. The workers are frusterated over the Chancellor's lack of support for custodians and their families. While the Chancellor consistently refers to 'market rates' to justify top admin salaries (she earns upwards of $400,000/yr.), she has yet to support custodians whose poverty wages are up to ...
Posted: Tue, May 30, 2006 3:57am PDT
How About a Real Raise for Californians? California's minimum wage has been stuck at $6.75 an hour.
Although our cost of living is sky-high, we have the lowest
minimum wage of any state on the West Coast....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 6:39pm PDT
Solidarity with Oakland Greyhound Security Workers Today @5:30 Thursday - May 25 - 5:30 PM
Greyhound Bus Terminal
2103 San Pablo (X 21st St) - Oakland...
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 2:01pm PDT
Shattuck Cinema Union Campaign Update 
The National Labor Relations Board has given The Shattuck an election date! On June 16th, between 4:30 and 6:30pm on location at the theatre, the workers will have the opportuinty to make their voices heard and vote for the union....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 4:48am PDT
5/24: Young Workers United ACTION against unfair employer WHAT: Rally to send a message to restaurant owners like Si Senor Taqueria, other
businesses, and the media that the community will not tolerate the use of
immigration status to abuse workers.
WHEN: Wednesday May 24th at 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: Si Senor Taqueria, 53 Stevenson St...
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 10:31pm PDT
Action Alert: AB 2536 Household Worker Rights Bill needs your support > The CA Assembly will vote on AB 2536 by the end of the month and we need
> you to tell your assembly members that you think household workers deserve
> equal labor protections....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 7:58pm PDT
UC Regents Meeting reportback 5/17 (audio/mpeg 6.0MB) On Wednesday 5/17 the UC Regents held a meeting at UCSF. Students, Workers and unions were present, primarily in response to UC's plan to cut workers' pensions. The unions were united & unapologetic, cheering loudly as three California State Senators including Figeroa (D) and Maldonado (R), called for Dynes' resignation....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 2:44pm PDT
Shattuck Cinema Union Campaign Update The National Labor Relations Board has given The Shattuck an election date! On June 16th, between 4:30 and 6:30pm on location at the theatre, the workers will have the opportuinty to make their voices heard and vote for the union....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 1:06pm PDT
BAM/PFA Management Forces Resignation of Curator Chris Gilbert Over Venezuelan Exhibit BAM/PFA management have forced the resignation of Matrix Curator Chris Gilbert who has
recently curated a powerful exhibition on the struggle of Venezuelan workers and alternative
media....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 9:12am PDT
Photos from the March in solidarity with the workers who were fired from Chevy's 
These are photos from the rally. We met at Dr Powers park in the middle of Tracy, held a brief rally, and then Marched 4 miles to the Chevys where we held a symbolic picket. Most of the passing drivers that reacted at all honked in support. Only three or four gave us the finger or shouted negative comments at us. Neighbors mostly showed support, although one chickenshit sprayed their garden hose at us from behind a wall....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2006 11:45am PDT
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