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Berkeley Bowl Hires Big Union Busting Law Firm
Berkeley Bowl hired Jackson and Lewis to bust current union organizing efforts....
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2003 9:41pm PDT
Berkeley Bowl is Hiring a "Human Resources" person for "union avoidance&quo
A customer brought this to our attention....
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2003 9:30pm PDT
Berkeley Bowl Fires Union Organizing Employee
Dailycal article about Berkeley Bowl firing me....Lawsuits are being filed and NLRB charges are in process....
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2003 9:24pm PDT
Ministerial Protesters: Support the Janitors in Sacramento
Janitors of SEIU Local 1877 are on strike in the downtown Sacramento area...
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2003 2:48pm PDT
[gangbox] "THEY SAY CUTBACK, WE SAY FIGHTBACK"
"THEY SAY CUTBACK, WE SAY FIGHTBACK" race, taxes and billionare NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg's city worker layoffs...
Posted: Mon, Jun 16, 2003 11:27pm PDT
Vigil outside Irish Embassy in your Country June 24th.
We go to trial on June 24th. in Kilrush, Co. Clare charged with $2 U.S. million disarmament to a U.S. Navy War Plane at Shannon Airport Feb. 3rd.
We are under a cloud of 10 year max. sentences, with a likelihood of 3-5 years....
Posted: Mon, Jun 16, 2003 2:26pm PDT
6/25 Oakland Protest Over Discriminatory Firing
There will be a protest in Oakland against the unfair labor practices and discriminatory firing of Oakland City Engineer who is an Iranian immigrant. He was fired after 11 years on the job....
Posted: Sun, Jun 15, 2003 12:23pm PDT
A memorial desecrated, a massacre remembered
Remember Ludlow! The cry of American workers ninety years ago again rings throughout the land....
Posted: Sat, Jun 14, 2003 12:57pm PDT
Who's the Greatest American?
Both Homer Simpson and Bill Clinton made the list. Yesss! I bet I know who're among the Evil-ish American list....
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2003 12:27pm PDT
PARADISE?
Which way to paradise? Can it be real on Earth ever?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2003 12:21pm PDT
[gangbox] THE TWO SIDES OF THE CARPENTERS UNION
THE TWO SIDES OF THE CARPENTERS UNION, or, how can you call it a "united brotherhood" if some guys work every day and others barely get 2 months work a year?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2003 12:19pm PDT
Judge G. H. Tomlin finds Xamplify credible
Judge G. H. Tomlin stated "their lack of motive for fabricating their observations and conclusions" and "character of their testimony" in ruling "the claimant voluntarily resigned without good cause."...
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2003 9:16am PDT
Gay employees say DOJ blocking 'pride' event
Gay employees say DOJ blocking 'pride' event
Justice spokeswoman calls it 'internal matter'...
Posted: Tue, Jun 10, 2003 7:49am PDT
Union Practicing Unfair Labor? Yes!
Unfair labor practices being committed by one of California's largest Stationary Engineering Unions against it's own clerical workers....
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2003 7:13pm PDT
Diamonds Are Forever | Facts About Conflict Diamonds
Africa's bloodiest walords of the 1990s vied for control of the continent's richest diamond fields, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) and the Kono district of Sierra Leone in West Africa. Engulfed by ensuing wars, local diamond traders profit......
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2003 11:51am PDT
6/14SF Meeting On Right To Organize & Free Speech
The speak-out/forum will have workers from around the bay area and discuss the attacks on all workers....
Posted: Sun, Jun 8, 2003 11:28pm PDT
PROTEST SF HEALTH CUTS
Protest devastating cuts to SF Public Health Services planned in the new City budget.
Come to two SF Board of Supervisor's hearings:
Tue, June 10th, 3 PM, and Wed, June 11th, 2 PM, at City Hall.
Cuts will target homeless, mentally ill, substance abusers, immigrants, and poor residents....
Posted: Sun, Jun 8, 2003 11:48am PDT
Whole Food's Vote to Unionize Upsets Libertarian Founder
Whole Foods union problems erupted in 1990, when they took over a failed co-op in Berkeley, CA. Founder John Mackey believed that union demands sunk the co-op, so he refused to hire its employees -- an unpopular move in leftist Berkeley....
Posted: Fri, Jun 6, 2003 2:14pm PDT
Berkeley Bowl, Inc. Anti-Union Flyer #2 & Rebuttal, Call for Solidarity..
This is the second in a series of anti-union flyers that the Company, otherwise known as Berkeley Bowl, has handed out since they caught wind of the current union organizing drive....
Posted: Fri, Jun 6, 2003 7:08am PDT
US Unemployment Highest Level in Nine Years
The nation's unemployment rate climbed to 6.1 percent in May, the highest level in nine years, as businesses cut 17,000 jobs in a weak economy struggling toward recovery....
Posted: Fri, Jun 6, 2003 6:48am PDT