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2/1 Protest Schwarzenegger's Effort To Target Injured/Disabled Worker Barbara Clark: Are The 7th Day Adventists Insane?
Barbara Clark was a nurse at the 7th Day Adventist Hospital in Bakersfield and was injured on the job due to the conditions in the hospital. Although she was seriously injured, the 7th Day Adventists refused to care for her and instead tried to terrorize her. She has lost her house and her life has been torn apart. Now the 7th Day Adventists in order to silence her have enlisted the support of Shwarzenegger's California DIR director Andrea Hoch who is tr...
Posted: Tue, Jan 31, 2006 10:25am PST
Charter School Unionizes Edison Brentwood Academy and Edison-McNair Academy in East Palo Alto are the first Edison Schools Charter schools to unionize. Contract was ratified, and includes increase in pay and limited protection for 5th-year teachers....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 7:34pm PST
2/11 SF Presentation On Lessons The UW Divestment Campaign Aid To Israel This forum will provide reports by UW T.A. Palestine Solidarity Activist Nasser Abufarha and Mark
Evenson, President elect of The Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals (TAUWP)AFT...
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 1:52pm PST
Berkeley Honda Rallies This Week: W Th Sat When: Wed., 7:30-9 AM Special Rally! Sponsored by SEIU 790
City of Berkeley & other public employees
Th., 4:30-6 PM
Sat., 1-2:30 PM Sponsored by Democratic Socialists of America...
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 10:05pm PST
1/25 SF Laborers To File Corruption Charges Against Mayor Newsom SF Laborers were illegally laid off from the city by DPW. The SF supervisors appropriated
$1.8 million to rehire them but due to corruption , Discrimination and retaliation the City is
refusing to rehire these workers....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 9:48pm PST
Safeway Kills Democracy 
Rank n file members from UFCW Local 588 support presidential candidate for Local 588 Doug Slaydon at his "Board of Adjustment" hearing....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 1:13pm PST
FACTS ABOUT UFCW 588 AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA’S CONCESSIONARY FOOD INDUSTRY CONTRACTS – 198 Former Local 588 President Jack Loveall and his son, Jacques, have been at the forefront of leading concessionary bargaining with Safeway and Northern California’s other major food employers since the Lovealls took over 588 in 1984. The UFCW 588 impact on bargaining increased when the union merged five local unions in the early 1990’s to expand its membership from 9,500 to 22,000 making it the largest local union in Northern California. No successful labor dispute could be fought if Local 5...
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 12:42pm PST
Educators demand a fair contract and protest Randolph Ward's intimidation tactics 
More than 100 people turned out on short notice to demand a fair contract and to protest Randolph Ward's intimidation tactics. That night AFSME President Morris Tatum announced that his members have pledged that they will support OEA picket lines in the event of a forced strike....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:55pm PST
Be a Class Traitor for $300 a day Randy Ward, state administrator for Oakland Unified School District's receivership, is already getting ready to hire scabs when the K-12 teacher go out on strike--which it's almost certain they will. But remember that he forced 7,000 district employees to take a 4% pay cuts, while laying off 100 custodians, in 2004. Now this parasite, with privatization of the whole district on his agenda, is going for more blood and wants the teachers to pay more for their healthcare. The working class in th...
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 10:06pm PST
The Fight Against Racial Discrimination in the Richmond Shipyards:An interview with Soskin (audio/mpeg 12.6MB) Betty Reid Soskin experienced racism during the 2nd WW in the Richmond shipyards and she
discusses this with Steve Zeltzer from the KPFA Labor Collective.
27.25 minutes 12.6 mb...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:26pm PST
Segregation in the US and Bay Area Trade Unionists (audio/mpeg 7.3MB) This interview exposes the history of segregation and the
effect on SEIU UHW hospital workers....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:12pm PST
Labor Studies Courses at SJCC San Jose City College is gearing up for classes starting at the end of this month! Unions want more people to become informed and active in the challenges ahead. Help get your colleages involved by enrolling in one of our 5 week mini classes(Marked *) or our special programs to become a Mediator or assistant with our immigrant Community! These are practical classes taught by excellent instructors that are committed to helping to create a more just society....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 10:04pm PST
The Bay Area General Strikes; '34 in SF & '46 in Oakland 
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the 1946 Oakland General strike. To commemorate, a presentation of the '46 Oakland strike will be presented--along with Chris Carlsson's description and analysis of the 1934 San Francisco General Strike. These descriptions and analyses will be followed by a discussion about how keeping the memory of the strikes alive helps us understand how we might express our solidarity with struggles going on today.
The Bay Area General Strikes event is on Wednes...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 1:45am PST
KPFA Labor Collective Portal Launched The KPFA Labor Collective which has produced labor programming for KFPA for over 3 years is
launching a labor portal on the MLK weekend. This portal at www.laborcollective.org will contain
links to labor programming on radio and video, labor history and culture as well as a labor
calendar....
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2006 2:46pm PST
LaborFest 2006 Call for Video Submissions 
LaborFest 2006 July 5 - 31
Call for Labor Videos & Films
For 13th Annual International Working Class Film & Video Festival
The deadline to submit all videos is May 1, 2006
(Application form)...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 2:56pm PST
Working Immigrant Safety and Health Coalition Trainings in Feb 
Two day training 2/9 and 2/16, 9 to 5pm @ Freedom Archives, 522 Valencia Street, San Francisco, 94110 - lunch provided...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 10:41pm PST
Protest Schwarzenegger's Lunch Break Takeaway Noon at State Capital 1/13 Arnold the Bullying Lowlife now wants to steal the lunch breaks of workers! Don't miss this protest tomorrow!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 10:09pm PST
Back to Berkeley Honda - Support the Strikers; Join the Union/Community Outreach Group When: Th., 1/12, 4:30-6:00 Berkeley Federation of Teachers
Sat., 1/14, 1:00-2:30 The Raging Grannies...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 1:07am PST
Shattuck Slasher Strikes Union’s Rat A surreptitious stalker slashed the robust rodent outside Berkeley Honda at high noon Thursday, briefly deflating the colorful symbol of striking union members....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 3:52pm PST
Chronicle Seeks to Undermine Minimum Wage Study The San Francisco Chronicle opposed the November 2003 initiative that created an $8.50 per hour city minimum wage, believing that the $6.75 state minimum was sufficient. Now that a new study has shown that none of the predicted negatives associated with the wage hike has occurred, the Chronicle’s January 4 article on the report continues the paper’s anti-wage hike crusade. Forget the fact that the current $8.82 per hour remains far below what city contractors must pay, or that the state minim...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 8:41am PST
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