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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
UC Students Get Naked For Justice (3/1)
In symbolic protest against the use of sweatshops to make Univeristy of California collegiate apparel, students at 6 UCs including UC Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Davis, and Riverside will be getting naked (or in their underwear) in front of their bookstores where collegiate apparel is sold on Wed, March 1st. UCSC's protest begins at 12:30pm and will take place at the base of the UCSC campus....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 11:35am PST
8 days of Anarchy
The week of the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair ......
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 9:41am PST
Spenger’s Employees Claim Discrimination
Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto in Berkeley on fourth street is still using Jim Crow statutes to degrade its African-American(black) employees as second class citizens and workers. Where is the anti-racist action to shut down this Old Jim Crow shithouse!!!!!!!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 10:02pm PST
Say “Supersize Me” With A Smile
Say “Supersize Me” With A Smile;
It May Not Be Long Before You Are at the Other End of that Counter...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 11:06pm PST
Rally against union busting on Bay
Wednesday, March 1, 2006 demonstration planned against the National Parks Service for illegal award of the Alcatraz Ferry contract to non-union low bidder....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:22pm PST
Video Of SF Hotel Workers Rising Rally 2/15/2006 (video/quicktime 37.1MB)
This was a kickoff rally for over 60,000 hotel workers whose contracts have
expired or are about to expire this summer. If agreements are not reached
there maybe the first national hotel workers strike.
26:30min, 37.1 MB...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 4:10pm PST