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Union buster gets Iraq Port Contract
The pigs are at the trough and Bush has handed a private contract for managing the port of Umm Qasr to Stevedoring Services of America (SSA), a nasty union-busting firm....
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2003 7:38pm PST
East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse Organizes with IWW
Workers at the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse have joined the IWW and are demanding voluntary recognition from their employer. They are holding informational pickets from 3/25-3/28/2003...
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2003 7:11pm PST
[Belgium]: Caterpillar workers on strike against the war. [picture report]
Monday, March 24th: workers and employees, united in a front between the different trade-unions have stop working, at the start of every shift [ morning, afternoon and night ]. They have organised an assembly of the workers outside the factory, next to a main road getting in the town of Charleroi [ South-West of Belgium ]. Thousands of leaflets have been given to the car drivers.
The purpose of this all was to protest against the war done by Bush’s administration for the controle of the oil ...
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2003 3:53am PST
3/27SF Labor TV Show On Workers Speak Out On War& Rank & File Want Democracy
The TV show "Labor On The Job" will focus on the growing protest by unionists against the war and the growing rank and file movement against corruption and for union democracy....
Posted: Tue, Mar 25, 2003 11:51pm PST
Is Labor for Peace or for Democrats?
It is long overdue that labor leads all progressive causes, especially the peace movement, but the latest labor for peace conference was anything but a leadership conference; it was yet another pressure the Democrats scene....
Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2003 6:13am PST
WizardOfWizards
Most of the issues in the modern World are the result of inadequate information not only on the part of the people but on the part of the leaders of corporations and others in high places. UCOM provides accurate explanations of what is happening and how we can work to solve it....
Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2003 4:26am PST
SF TV Show On Privatization, Racism In Work Place
"Labor On The Job" on March 13 on San Francisco Cable Channel 29 at 8PM to 9:00 PM will focus on the Bush plan to privatize 850,000 federal workers and the continued privatization not only in the US but internationally....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2003 4:29pm PST
Proudhon and the Subject of Nationalities
Proudhon and the Subject of Nationalities...
Posted: Wed, Mar 5, 2003 10:40am PST
Critical Activist Alert !!!
Critical Activist Alert
http://www.goiam.org/communicator/form.cfm...
Posted: Tue, Mar 4, 2003 4:10pm PST
3/16Forum On War, Repression & Labor
On 3/16/2003 there will be a forum on Labor on Iraq, Repression & Labor as well as video from the UK and Pakistan on the labor protests against the war....
Posted: Mon, Mar 3, 2003 9:36pm PST
3/3SF Picket Against Union Corruption
Rank and file Bay Area trade unionists will be picketing the W.Coast offices of Union Labor Life Insurance Company on 3/3 to protest the "insider trading" and refusal of this union owned company to open it's books....
Posted: Thu, Feb 27, 2003 11:15pm PST
2/27Solidarity With Anti-War Postal Workers
Two SF postal workers who are members of the APWU were cited by federal postal police for leafletting against the war. They will be protesting the citations at the San Francisco Federal Building on Thursday Feb 27, 2003....
Posted: Sun, Feb 23, 2003 3:45pm PST
Article format for Front of Labor Section?
Just a suggestion really. I figured you indymedia people are probably really busy so I took a shot at formatting a table for the front of the labor section. Hope this helps! Feel free to alter however you see fit of course. ;)...
Posted: Wed, Feb 19, 2003 12:05pm PST
2/18Picket Feinstein To Protest War&Union Busting
Workers and anti-war activists will be protesting the war mongering of Demo Senator Feinstein and her poodle Gavin Newsom on Feb 18....
Posted: Sat, Feb 15, 2003 12:29pm PST
Enron 'bribed tax officials'
A crucial report into the collapse of disgraced energy giant Enron has discovered the firm's executives bribed tax officials....
Posted: Thu, Feb 13, 2003 9:11am PST
BTL: U.S. Labor Movement Organizes Against White House War Plan...
Interview with Gene Bruskin, US Labor Against the War, conducted by Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Fri, Feb 7, 2003 9:33am PST
Embattled union SEIU in ad campaign
A labor union representing security officers in San Francisco office buildings, engaged in fruitless contract negotiations and competition for workers'...
Posted: Thu, Feb 6, 2003 3:47pm PST
Is There an IT Skills Shortage?
Is There an IT Skills Shortage?
The popular media appears to be deliberately misleading the public into thinking that there is such a shortage....
Posted: Sat, Feb 1, 2003 5:58pm PST
Taco Bell Truth Tour Coming to the Bay Area!
Get involved in the Coalition of Immokalee Worker's Taco Bell Truth Tour. Planning meeting this Thursday, Jan 30th at 7pm!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 27, 2003 4:18pm PST