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8/29 AC ATU192 Bus Drivers To Protest In Oakland ATU 192 AC bus drivers will be protesting at the AC Transit HQ over harrassment and
mismanagement of the bus agency....
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 4:58pm PDT
SUPPORT THE UNITED FARM WORKERS -- BOYCOTT CHARLES KRUG AND MONDAVI WINES! ASK BEVERAGES AND MORE (BEVMO), the largest California wine superstore chain with 54 locations, to remain neutral in this dispute and not carry Charles Krug wines until a fair contract is renegotiated....
Posted: Wed, Aug 23, 2006 11:37pm PDT
Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in Global Electronics From Silicon Valley in California to Silicon Glen in Scotland, from Silicon Island in Taiwan to Silicon Paddy in China, the social, economic, and ecological effects of the international electronics industry are widespread. The production of electronic and computer components contaminates air, land, and water around the globe. As this eye-opening book reveals, the people who suffer the consequences are largely poor, female, immigrant, and minority....
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 6:05pm PDT
March for Immigrant, Worker and Community Justice Start : 10 am Justin Herman Plaza at the Embarcadero
March: 11:00 am to Civic Center...
Event Date: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 10:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 11:23am PDT
Hunger Strikers at City Hall (video/quicktime 18.8MB) Mayor Gavin Newsom accused of union-busting by eleven DPW workers who still are denied their jobs. Three-minute QT movie. 19MB....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 11:23pm PDT
Artificial Recovery; Real Job Losses Will the Unemployed Become Cannon Fodder for Bush's Wars?...
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 9:59pm PDT
Wage-Productivity Gap Productivity has continued to rise faster than wages, making it still more difficult for workers to purchase production. This problem has been obscured by record levels of debt-financing of consumer spending....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 6:55pm PDT
Ag-Mart, McDonald's, and Sweatshops in the Fields And herein lies the connection: farmworkers' exposure to pesticides does not take place in a vacuum. Rather, it occurs along a continuum of systemic abuse that includes sub-poverty wages, sweatshop conditions, and - in the most extreme cases - modern-day slavery. The CIW insists that consumers and corporate buyers must play a crucial role in addressing the litany of abuses and injustices rampant in Florida agriculture....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 12:13pm PDT
Lamont Kowtows To Wall Street The bigh "liberal" Lamont reassured Wall Street that he will do their bidding if elected...
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 12:10pm PDT
Ford production cuts foreshadow more plant closures, layoffs Last week’s announcement by Ford Motor Co. of sharp production cutbacks prefigures a new round of plant closures and mass layoffs by America’s second largest automaker....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 6:45am PDT
The Minutemen: Mad at the Wrong Guys It's the Boss, Not the Workers...
Posted: Sun, Aug 20, 2006 9:37am PDT
Support the IWW workers at Shattuck Cinemas 
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Posted: Sun, Aug 20, 2006 8:35am PDT
Support the IWW workers at Shattuck Cinemas Shattuck Cinema
2230 Shattuck Avenue
at Kittredge
Berkeley, CA
United States...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 1, 2006 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Aug 19, 2006 8:50pm PDT
UFCW Members Assaulted (Warning,: Reading this may be offensive to some, please continue at your own risk).
The Irony Of It All...
In the fall of 2005, UFCW 588 candidate for local union president Doug Slaydon was terminated by his employer Safeway. In Doug's words: I found myself suspended for saying the word crap on the way out to the sales floor. The company found Doug's use of the word crap so offensive they fired him. Seems a customer (more coming on that story as well), overheard the word and was so off...
Posted: Sat, Aug 19, 2006 8:01am PDT
8/24 Premier Doc Screening "Rebuilding San Francisco: The Workers Story" & N. CA TV Schedu There will be a premier screening of the new documentary
"Rebuilding San Francisco 1906-1910"
"The Workers Story"
on November 24, 2006 and it will also be programmed on PBS channels in the bay area during
the Labor Day Weekend....
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 3:15pm PDT
Labor Center offers Latino Leadership School - Centro Laboral Ofrece Escuela de Liderazgo 
We would like to announce the Latino Leadership School that the UC Berkeley Labor Center, UCLA Labor Center, Latino Issues Forum are organizing with the sponsorship of the Central Valley Partnership....
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 10:16am PDT
PAUL KRUGMAN : Wages, Wealth and Politics - On Inequality & More Krugman: Government policies have played a big role in America’s growing economic polarization
- PLUS: Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land Opened in NYC Last Night ( W/ COMPLETE Video)
- PLUS: Ex-CIA official says winners, losers in Mideast are clear
- PLUS: Aaron Russo UNPLUGGED, Producer of "America: Freedom to Fascism" - Video & More...
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 7:55am PDT
Northwest Airlines to laid-off workers: rummage through the trash Earlier this month Northwest Airlines, the fifth largest carrier in the US, sent soon-to-be-laid-off customer service workers and baggage handlers a handbook with “tips” for managing their unemployed state. The four-page booklet, “Preparing for a Financial Setback,” contains a section entitled, “101 ways to save money.” Among its patronizing or insulting suggestions: urging workers to shop in thrift stores and not be “shy about pulling something you like out of the trash.”...
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 6:26am PDT
Who's Hijacking Who? Injured Workers To Protest and Speakout in Oakland on August 23 Carrie Nevins, the acting director of the Division of Workers Compensation has charged that
injured workers "hijacked" her hearing on workers compensation. The attack on injured workers
is part of the drive by insurance companies which control her agency to terroize injured workers
and force them to go to SSI, Disability Insurance and public hospitals to get their care taken
care of . Injured workers will speak out and picket on August 23 at the Oakland State Building...
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 6:16pm PDT
2006 Student/Farmworker Alliance Encuentro; Immokalee, Fl; Sep 21-24 
Student/Famworker Alliance is a national network of youth and students organizing in solidarity with farmworkers to eliminate sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery in the fields. We work in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a membership-led organization of mostly Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian low-wage immigrant workers in Southwest Florida. Together we won the Taco Bell Boycott in 2005. For more information, visit http://www.sfalliance.org...
Posted: Wed, Aug 16, 2006 1:15pm PDT
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