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Film Benefit for Domestic Workers Coalition Join us at the Televising the Revolution Film Series in a benefit for the Domestic Workers Coalition (POWER, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, Women's Collective of SF Day Labor Program). Speakers, films, and live theater! Rain or Shine...
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:25pm PST
Berkeley 3/28 & 4/1: Into to the IWW Problems at Work? Don't Fight Alone!...
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 3:41pm PST
Disgruntled workers, don't miss the class that will change your life. 
This interactive workshop draws upon your experiences as a worker to develop a unique perspective on how we go about solving our problems at work and building our power as workers....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 5:27am PST
Exhibit on occupied factories in Venezuela opens Sunday Below is the Preface to the catalog for the exhibit, "5 factories—worker control in venezuela", that opens this Sunday, March 26 at 2 PM at the University Art Museum in Berkeley. See the calendar entry for March 26 for more info. (Note: Museum admission will be free that day.)...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 6:31am PST
Members & Retirees of UFCW Local 588 Picket Union Hall 
On March 21st members and retirees of Local 588 held a picket on the Local 588 hall at 2200 Professional Drive Roseville Ca....
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 9:28am PST
Oakland Teachers Vote to Authorize a Strike Oakland teachers are one step closer to striking against the privatization agenda of state administrator Randy Ward. This could be a turning point in Bay Area class struggle if the teachers are able to shut down the schools, encourage students to stay out, garner widespread community solidarity, and turn back Ward's attempt to whittle down their healthcare and hold down their wages. A victory against Ward's austerity regime could inspire workers' struggles everywhere and help start taking the...
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 7:08am PST
San Francisco Bay Area Hosts Fundraiser for Labor Party So. Carolina Ballot-Access Drive 
Bay Area supporters of the Labor Party heard the party’s National Organizer, Mark Dudzic, speak about the drive to gain ballot access and run candidates in South Carolina at a San Francisco fundraiser March 7, raising over $3,000 for the cause....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 10:45am PST
3/22: Rally for Affordable Health Care for Oakland School Employees 
WHEN: THIS WEDNESDAY, 3/22 FROM 4:00 to 5:30pm
WHERE: OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING, 1025 2ND AVENUE, OAKLAND (off Rt 880 by the Lake)...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 10:57pm PST
Santa Cruz County Workers Strike Cripples Services for a Day (audio/mpeg 4.1MB) Eighteen-hundred Santa Cruz county employees represented by SEIU Local 415, staged a one day strike March 14, crippling road maintenance, payroll processing, social work, and many other services. Vinny Lombardo reports....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 9:22pm PST
UCSC Sweat Free Coalition present Chancellor with ‘sweat free’ cake On Thursday, March 16, about a dozen members of the UCSC Sweat Free
Coalition presented Chancellor Denton with a ‘sweat free, sugar free’
cake after putting on “The Naked Truth Fashion Show” in front of the
Bay Tree Bookstore....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 7:30pm PST
SEIU 415 Workers Strike and Rally at the Santa Cruz County Building 
On March 14th, 1,800 Santa Cruz County workers launched a one-day strike against the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors which they say, "so far refuses to provide wages comparable to that of comparable workers in comparable counties."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 1:39am PST
Why I Didn't Strike On March 14th 2006 On March 14th I decided to do something I had never done and never expected to do. I walked through strike lines and worked while all my co-workers spend the entire day, sometimes in heavy rain, fighting fo a better contract. But, I had to disagree with my union....
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 10:09am PST
SEIU Strike Rally Shakes SC County Building 
After 6 months of working without a contract and County administrators' attack on workers' salaries and health care, the 1,800-strong SEIU 415 went on strike on March 14. Pickets were set up all across the county - from Santa Cruz to Watsonville - yet the highlight of the day was a mid-afternoon rally at the County Building where, after reportedly marching through 5 stories of the building, hundreds of workers danced in the streets to old school hits and more by SEIU's own DJ. With solidarity...
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 3:23am PST
Santa Cruz County Workers’ Strike: A Success From http://www.seiu415.org/chapters/county/contract/StrikeSuccess.htm...
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 2:31am PST
The Oakland General Strike Of 1946: A KPFA Radio Show (audio/mpeg 26.0MB) This radio show from the Pacifica Radio Archives was on the Oakland General Strike of 1946 and
was broadcast on 11/29/76 on the 30th anniversary of the strike.
56.50 min 26 MB...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 10:36am PST
STRIKE Support!!! Tue. 3/14 Join SEIU 415 picket lines 
The strike is on!
Your action is requested to support 1,800 Santa Cruz County workers who are striking on Tuesday, 14 March.
Please forward this message to co-workers and progressive email lists so we can spread the word about this ONE DAY action....
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 8:46pm PST
County Workers Appeal for Equal Treatment This week, Santa Cruz county workers will strike for 1 day. There will likely be a longer strike after March 27th if the Board of Supervisors does not show more leadership.
We are the 1,800 people who work to serve the health, safety and quality of life of this community. We are public health nurses, road maintenance workers, social workers, computer operators, secretaries, child support workers, lifeguards and much more.
The last thing we want is to be out on strike rather than servin...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 8:28pm PST
Audio Of Historian Michael Kazin On Labor and the 1906 Quake (audio/mpeg 28.6MB) This audio presentation is by labor historian Michael Kazn about the San Francisco labor
movement during the period of the 1906 earthquake. Kazin's book
"Barons Of Labor, The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era
is an important contribution on the history of working people in San Francisco.
28.6MB 1.02 minutes...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 2:18pm PST
San Francisco’s Hypocritical Multiculturalism A week in New York City has left me even more convinced of San Francisco’s glaring hypocrisy toward its Latino and African-American residents. Although San Francisco prides itself on being a multicultural city, a place whose busses carry people of diverse nationalities and ethnicities, when it comes to employment in the city’s hip restaurants, blacks or Latinos are either missing or in the kitchen. These groups are also absent from the well-paying jobs in San Francisco’s popular small busines...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 7:05am PST
San Francisco M0BILIZATIONS to raise Minimum Wage start Saturday This is an important initiative for the low wage workers of California, who fall further behind as the cost of daily living continues to increase....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 6:55pm PST
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