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[gangbox] "UNION ORGANIZING MUST BE SEEN PRIMARILY AS A BUSINESS TRANSACTION"
"UNION ORGANIZING MUST BE SEEN PRIMARILY AS A BUSINESS TRANSACTION"...the long slow decay of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters into a company union......
Posted: Thu, Jul 10, 2003 2:19pm PDT
BIGGER THAN WATERGATE! ''How to Rig an Election in the United States''
IMPORTANT NOTE: Publication of this story marks a watershed in American political history. It is offered freely for publication in full or part on any and all internet forums, blogs and noticeboards. All other media are also encouraged to utilise material. Readers are encouraged to forward this to friends and acquaintances in the United States and elsewhere....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 12:16pm PDT
Berkeley Bowl Hires #1 Union Buster in Country
just a bit of an update......
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 10:11am PDT
Labor Fest: ART IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE; an evening of performance and discussion
An evening of performance and ideas about arts role in challenging empire....
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2003 6:22pm PDT
Digital Divide Problem: On-line Support for Dean "99% White"
The "Digital Divide" is the first major civil rights issue of 21st century. All Americans deserve access to the Internet and the opportunity to learn more about potential candidates for public office. Our democracy demands an informed public, and every American deserve the opportunity to participate fully in the democractic process. Equal access equals an open, transparent, and responsive government, thus by design, a democracy. Dean must avoid Nader's failure to captivate the a...
Posted: Sun, Jul 6, 2003 12:46am PDT
ACTION ALERT - Support Unionization at Bekeley Bowl - 2PM SUNDAY 7/6
Support the Berkeley Bowl Workers unionization drive. Tell management to stop union busting. "Creative" support event at Supermarket on Shattuck at Oregon, STARTS 2PM....
Posted: Sat, Jul 5, 2003 10:15pm PDT
7/5 Opening Night of 7/5-31 LaborFest
On July 5, 2003 we honor the memory of those workers who died in the San Francisco General Strike of 1934 with the Opening Night of the 10th Annual LaborFest 2003, a month-long series of videos, music, drama, poetry readings, boat rides and mural tours honoring the people who do the work, the workingclass....
Posted: Sat, Jul 5, 2003 1:30pm PDT
Bush Oxymoron: 'Jobless Recovery'
Republican strategists said the one-month unemployment numbers alone were not a cause of great concern, but warned that the sheer longevity of what has been described as a "jobless recovery" eventually could become a significant problem for a president heading into a reelection campaign....
Posted: Fri, Jul 4, 2003 8:22pm PDT
Building Bridges Radio:African Cocoa Picked By Indentured Child Labor
Building Bridges presents this 28.5 min radio program with Terry Collingsworth,
Director of the International Labor Rights Fund. TO LISTEN CLICK ON INTERNET LINK...
Posted: Thu, Jul 3, 2003 3:16pm PDT
Land Reform Sparks Violence in Venezuela
A 2001 agrarian reform law is pitting landowners and rural workers against each other....
Posted: Mon, Jun 30, 2003 6:32pm PDT
Warsaw Anti-Border Demo Rejects Deportations, Faces Arrests
Anarchists demonstrate against borders
Police demonstrate global apartheid...
Posted: Mon, Jun 30, 2003 5:57am PDT
Elite vs Elitny from exile.ru --> Read ;-)
Cynical wake-up call for us anti-Bush "liberal elitists"!
Fun, funny and sad too......
Posted: Mon, Jun 30, 2003 12:20am PDT
7/12 - ILWU Anti-War Action Committee Meeting
The ILWU Anti-War Action Committee will be sponsoring a forum on The Wart At Home & The War Abroad at the ILWU Local 10 on Saturday July 12, 2003 at 3:00 PM. There will also be a leader of a militant Japanese railway union that took strike action against the war on Iraq...
Posted: Sat, Jun 28, 2003 1:45pm PDT
Berkeley Bowl Market: Soy Dream or Soy Nightmare
Press Release......
Posted: Fri, Jun 27, 2003 4:05pm PDT
[gangbox] ROSTER OF ELIGIBLE LABORERS
ROSTER OF ELIGLBLE LABORERS....corruption, reform and unequal distribution of work in New York Construction and General Building Laborers local 79......
Posted: Fri, Jun 27, 2003 1:50pm PDT
The Old and Poor Watch Out! The White House Won't Release Medicare Memo.
The Bush administration's top Medicare accountant has calculated how millions of senior citizens would be affected by bringing private managed care into the program, but the administration won't release the information. An earlier analysis suggested that a Republican plan to inject market forces into Medicare could increase premiums for those who stay in traditional programs by as much as 25 percent....
Posted: Wed, Jun 25, 2003 6:45pm PDT
Fellow Engineers and Others: Unjustified Termination
KPFA Voices from the Middle East Producer SA fired from professional engineering position in City of Oakland over mixup with professional license renewal; discrimination suspected....
Posted: Wed, Jun 25, 2003 12:51pm PDT
CBS 60 Minutes on IIT : Whiz Kids or Migrant Workers?
CBS 60 Minutes claims that IIT is MIT + Princeton + Harvard in India. True. But what about in the USA? An IITian (Bombay) explores gender, caste inequality, brain drain, outdated grading system etc in a personal, yet critical set of essays....
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 6:54am PDT
Death by DMV
Incredible true story of my death and eventual resurrection at hands of CA DMV - a humerous record of unbelievable incompetence....
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 6:30pm PDT
Let's Fight to Win Against the War on Workers and the Poor
By abandoning their members and working class communities to the ravages of global capitalism as they are doing in San Francisco and here in Oakland, Union leaders leave a vacuum that begs to be filled....
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 6:23pm PDT