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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
Health Care for All Passes CA Senate! On to the Assembly The purpose of Health Care All—California is to
promote comprehensive universal health care, using a single payer public finance mechanism. We are all aware of the growing health care crisis in the U.S. We believe that there is a solution.
Changing to a universal health care system would save enough money to provide comprehensive coverage and greater benefits by covering everyone under one insurance plan. Health care services would still be delivered through both public and private provi...
Posted: Wed, Jun 4, 2003 4:47pm 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: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 6:57pm PDT
Regulating Toasters If this is the toaster with pictures, soon only Wonder Bread will pop out....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 4:27pm PDT
7th Day of Stanford Fast: Negotiations between the University administration and students continue in the 7th day of the student fast. Supporters of the fast include Dolores Huerta, Jesse Jackson, Julia Butterfly Hill, and Elaine Alquist....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 2:26am PDT
Tax Cuts and Class Warfare An argument against tax cuts for the wealthy and trickle-down economics...
Posted: Sun, Jun 1, 2003 6:38pm PDT
LaborFest2003 "A War On All Fronts" LaborFest 2003 will celebrate and commemorate the 1934 San Francisco General Strike. It will included films, poetry, music, art and education....
Posted: Sun, Jun 1, 2003 2:09pm PDT
Day 5 of Stanford Fast : Negotiations Break Down Six Stanford students begin their fifth day of fasting after negotiations with the administration reached a standstill Saturday night. At 11am today, Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, will speak in Stanford White Plaza addressing the critical point the fast has reached and the seriousness of the conditions facing workers on campus...
Posted: Sun, Jun 1, 2003 6:22am PDT
Day Three of Stanford Student Fast: Administration Finally Agrees to Labor Negotiations Today, May 30th, on the third day of the fast, a group of students representing the six fasters will begin negotiations with University President John Hennessy at 2 PM regarding the fasters’ call for a comprehensive Code of Conduct that institutes fair labor standards....
Posted: Fri, May 30, 2003 1:51pm PDT
Bush 'buried' critical budget report The Bush administration reportedly buried a report commissioned by the US Treasury which predicted a budget deficit of over $44,000bn and called for tax rises....
Posted: Thu, May 29, 2003 11:14am PDT
Tax Law Omits Child Credit in Low-Income Brackets Was this last minute revision intentional? Take you best guess.... Just a wise saying I learned from watching one of the old Star Trek episodes "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me". When you hear the words "Compassionate Conservative", recognize what it really means !...
Posted: Thu, May 29, 2003 9:23am PDT
FCC Decision on Media Ownership Nears Supporters of media ownership restrictions are making a final push to warn of the dangers of more media mergers ahead of an FCC vote that stacks 3-2 against them....
Posted: Wed, May 28, 2003 7:10pm PDT
American Life: A tax cut for you and but not for me The lunatics are now in charge of the asylum." So wrote the normally staid Financial Times, traditionally the voice of solid British business opinion, when surveying last week's tax bill. Indeed, the legislation is doubly absurd: the gimmicks used to make an $800-billion-plus tax cut carry an official price tag of only $320 billion are a joke, yet the cost without the gimmicks is so large that the nation can't possibly afford it while keeping its other promises....
Posted: Tue, May 27, 2003 12:43am PDT
Half-baked Marxism, Full-blown Solutions A solutions-based economic analysis of wage, housing, and other socio-economic issues will be presented at New College (777 Valencia) in San Francisco on Thursday, May 29 at 7 pm....
Posted: Thu, May 22, 2003 5:43pm PDT
The New York Times in Black and White "Anyone who tells you that my race didn't play a role in my career at the New York Times is lying to you. Both racial preferences and racism played a role. And I would argue that they didn't balance each other out."...
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2003 6:36am PDT
Protest Media Consolidation The Federal Communications Commission's likely action to relax major media ownership rules is forging some unexpected political alliances. For instance, for the first time a group known as "CodePink, Women for Peace" finds itself on the same side of a fight as the National Rifle Association....
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2003 12:47am PDT
Foundations Roiled by U.S. House Measure to Spur Increase in Charity The House bill has created a furor in the philanthropic world, with foundations warning that they could be forced to squander their assets and spend themselves out of existence. Its supporters, however, say it will actually rein in wasteful spending — on salaries and overhead — as it gives charities needed help in a time of withering government budgets and growing economic pain....
Posted: Sun, May 18, 2003 7:37pm PDT
[gangbox] SWEATING IN FRONT OF THE STOVE [gangbox] SWEATING IN FRONT OF THE STOVE...12 hour days, subminimum wages and low wage unionism in the NYC restaurant industry...
Posted: Sat, May 17, 2003 2:33pm PDT
GOVERNOR GRAY DAVIS' DAILY DIGEST Does this replace small business Smog Check with state contractors paid from taxes?...
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2003 9:53pm PDT
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