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UCSC Students Expose the Naked Truth of UC’s Use of Sweatshops
The Project
March 2006
page 4
On Wednesday March 2, activists working to end UC support and exploitation of sweatshop labor organized at the base of the UCSC campus to present “The Naked Truth: UC uses sweatshops”. Stripping down to just their cardboard skivvies, activists protested at the East entrance intersection to chants and signs calling for the UC adoption of a policy that will ensure the manufacturing of its apparel in researched, unionized factories. Drawing media and administ...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 7:27pm PST
The Struggle Continues: UCSC Custodians Demand Wage Parity
The Project
March 2006
page 4
Worker exploitation at the foundation of western capitalism has never gone unchecked. From slave ship mutiny, to the implementation of the weekend and child labor laws won by early labor unions, to the victory of AFSCME workers for a better contract from the UC last April, labor has always found new ways to influence the decision-making bodies that impede their progress towards fair, safe, and dignified employment. Even in the wake of major social victorie...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 7:22pm PST
18th Anniversary of "Rat Monday"
This week marks the 18th anniversay of "Rat Monday," where 10,000 construction workers struck every major construction site in San Francisco and attacked the scab Associated Building Contractors annual convention at Moscone Center. It was one of the biggest and most inspiring working class actions for decades in the Bay Area; the following account keeps the history of that high point in the class war alive....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 2:03am PST
Berkeley Honda Strike Support Schedul
ALL EVENTS ARE AT THE CORNER OF PARKER AND SHATTUCK between Ashby and Dwight in downtown Berkeley....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 10:53pm PST
3/9 Oakland Meet/Video Screening On Epidemic Of Union Busting&How To Fight It
Locked out Boilermakers Bob Glenn and Paul Sturgeon and other fired workes will discuss their
struggles for justice on the job. There will also be a screening of "Lockout 484" and
"Solidarity Has No Borders, The Journey of the Neptune Jade"...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 7:44pm PST
AFSCME Workers Take Struggle to UCSC Chancellor's Doorstep
On the night of March 7, custodians of AFSCME 3299 and their families, along with student and worker supporters, marched to the gates of UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton's on-campus home. The more than 200-strong crowd demanded the Chancellor support workers' struggles for dignity and justice, including wage parity with other regional colleges where workers make dollars more per hour for the same (or less) work.
The march, organized by AFSCME 3299 in coordination with MEChA de UCSC a...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 5:06am PST
Doctors Protest Sutters Corporate Takeover; Marin Tells Sutter to Get Out; Alta Bates Summ
Doctors Protest Sutter's Corporate Takeover; Marin Tells Sutter
to Get Out; Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Fails JCAHO
Readiness Test
Bay Area Doctors Say Sutter's Corporate Medicine is Bad for
Patients
Doctors protest Sutter's plans; San Leandro care at risk, 70
physicians claim...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:34pm PST
Berkeley Honda Strikers Need YOU !
Thursday 4:30-6pm
Saturday 1-2:30pm.
Parker and Shattuck in Berkeley...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 12:28pm PST
When 'port security' targets workers
Jack Heyman - San Francisco Chronicle, March 6, 2006....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 6:35am PST
Anti-labor terrorists attack striking hospital workers at Eden Hospital
The latest attack on labor picketlines occurred at Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, CA last week. Last fall, there were goons paid by California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco to attack hospital workers, mostly women, on the picketline. These anti-labor thugs are terrorists, and that is who the terrorists always are: Anti-labor, warmongering, racist, anti-women, anti-abortion, anti-gay thugs, and the politicians and captialist class who pay them. Terrorism is by definition a...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 6:32am PST
Coming Soon: 5th Annual Santa Cruz Reel Work Film Festival
The 5th annual May Day Labor Film Festival, "REEL WORK," announces 2006 schedule....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 9:24pm PST
What is the Naked Truth?
On March 1st, students demonstrated at the base of UC Santa Cruz to demand that the UC comply with their "Code of Conduct" Policy adapted in 1999 to only sell products produced under safe and fair working conditions....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 5:39pm PST
When 'port security' targets workers-Who Are the "terrorists"-Rally March 7, 2006 Oakland
On Tuesday March 7, 2006 there will be a protest at Oakland City Hall at 4:00 PM against the attack
on longshore workers and anti-war protesters....
Posted: Sun, Mar 5, 2006 8:30pm PST
3/7: SFLC/LP Fundraiser for LP in So. Carolina
Tuesday, March 7
6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
OPEIU Local 3 Social Hall
1050 South Van Ness Ave.
(between 21st and 22nd Streets)
San Francisco...
Posted: Sat, Mar 4, 2006 12:15pm PST
LOJ Show On The Attack On SF Public Workers & Civil Service (audio/mpeg 15.5MB)
The show of Labor On The Job focuses on the struggle to defend civil service in San Francisco
and the plans by Mayor Newsom and his Human Resources Director Phil Ginzberg to replace
civil service with cronyism and eliminate anychecks and balances on who is hired. It also
exposes the growing privatization in the city and how private contractors are colluding to
help eliminate civil service....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 10:28am PST
Photos Of3/1/06 Picketers At SF Maritime Rally Against Union Busting By Federal Government
These are photos of a March 1, 2006 labor maritime demonstration against union busting by the federal
government and the bay area unionized Ferry Boat workers....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 9:35am PST
3/6: Join LABOR COUNCIL SUPPORT PICKET @ Castro Valley EDEN MEDICAL CENTER
PUT PATIENTS FIRST RALLY, 8am-9am Monday, March 6 Eden Medical Center 20103 Lake Chabot Blvd, just off Castro Valley Blvd Castro Valley...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:55pm PST
Sweat-Free Campus Campaign Heats Up (audio/mpeg 4.0MB)
United Students Against Sweatshops have been organizing on college campuses around the US, to pressure school officials into adopting policies that strengthen the rights of garment workers who produce university apparel. A clothing optional rally drew about three dozen students to the base of UC Santa Cruz on March 1. Vinny Lombardo has more....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 2:19pm PST
Santa Cruz Students Strip for Sweat-Free UC
On Wed, March 1, students at UC Santa Cruz engaged in a creative "clothing-optional" protest against collegiate apparel produced by sweatshop labor. The protest was also against alleged comments by UCSC Chancellor Denice Denton that 'no one cares about sweatshops.' The students, associated with United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) and the Student and Worker Coalition for Justice (SWCJ), are part of a national campaign to urge colleges to sign on to a designated suppliers progra...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 12:52am PST
Mass Picket Berkeley Honda - March 4
Solidarity with Berkeley Honda Workers!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 9:45pm PST