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Detroit teachers hold strike rally Thousands of teachers rallied on Friday at Fisher Auditorium in downtown Detroit, voicing their anger over demands from school administrators that they accept pay and benefit cuts....
Posted: Sat, Sep 9, 2006 8:22am PDT
The Law is an Ass, by Philip Ruddock Philip Ruddock, Australian Attorney General, announced today that a broader range of people in the Australian community (non-Muslims) are to be targeted as “terrorists!” Ruddock also stated that persons who are not ‘terrorists’ need not be alarmed as his new wider classification should not concern ‘them’(?)
Australian citizens are left to conclude that the determination of who exactly is a terrorist has become an arbitrary prerogative of the Attorney General and his gang of enforcers! What...
Posted: Sat, Sep 9, 2006 3:45am PDT
Detroit Teachers Still Strong 12 Days Into Their Strike The article that follows is about a court back-to-work order being issued after 12 days of a strike by Detroit public school teachers. The strike is not only in defiance of state law, but is being driven by rank-and-file militancy that in many cases has left the union bureaucrats unable to control it. All 225 Detroit public schools have been closed, due to the strike, from the beginning of this week....
Posted: Fri, Sep 8, 2006 11:26pm PDT
SF: US Labor And The War On Lebanon, Palestine & Iraq 522 Valencia St/16th St. One block from the 16th St Bart Station
San Francisco...
Event Date: Mon, Sep 18, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 8, 2006 3:30pm PDT
WSWS : News & Analysis : North America Chipmaker Intel to cut workforce by 10,500 Intel, the world’s largest computer chipmaker, announced plans Tuesday to reduce its workforce by 10,500, or 10 percent, to trim $5 billion in costs over the next two years. Intel president and chief executive Paul Otellini said the move was “essential to Intel becoming a more agile and efficient company.”...
Posted: Fri, Sep 8, 2006 6:21am PDT
San Francisco Hotel Workers Deserve A Fair Contract 
Here are some snapshots taken in the late afternoon of the latest Local 2 Action in front of the Westin St. Francis at Union Square....
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 9:41pm PDT
TUMITINDI ANG TERORISMO AT PASISMO NG REHIMENG US-ARROYO SA PILIPINAS Lalo pang tumitindi ang pasismo at terorismo sa Pilipinas sa kabila ng diumano’y mga pahayag at pangako ng rehimeng Arroyo na "poproteksyunan ang karapatan at kalayaan ng bawat mamamayan".
Tuluy-tuloy pa rin ang paninibasib ng mga pasistang tauhan ni Arroyo sa PNP, AFP at iba pang armadong galamay ng estado. Sumusunod ang pinakahuling mga pangyayaring na itinala ng Pesante-USA mula sa mga pahayagan at balitaan mula sa Pilipinas na nagpapabulaan sa kanyang mga pagbabalatkayo...
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 1:07pm PDT
9/18 SF Forum On US Labor And The War On Lebanon, Palestine & Iraq Trade unionists will discuss the role of US labor and the wars in the Middle East as well as the
conditions of Arab-American workers in the US at a forum in San Francisco on Sep 18,2006...
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 7:47am PDT
Peacetalks: Jill Freidberg teachers strike in Oaxaca (audio/mpeg 24.0MB) Interview with Jill Freidberg about the teachers strike in Oaxaca and Freidberg's 2005 film "Granito De Arena"...
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 6:47am PDT
Urge Arnold To Restore Benefits to Injured Workers The Schwarzenegger Administration has slashed benefits for
permanently disabled workers by an average of 50%. Permanent
disability benefits are often the last shred of a safety net
that keeps severely injured workers in their homes and puts food
on the table for their families....
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 12:37am PDT
Portraits of Labor Support For Immigrant Rights 
Representaves of several labor unions marched in San Francisco on labor day, 2006, in solidarity with the immigrant rights movement. HERE, Hotel Employee's and Resturant Employee's Union Local 2, made a strong showing as they marched down Market Street....
Posted: Wed, Sep 6, 2006 8:18pm PDT
THOM HARTMANN Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class and What We Can Do Abou Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St.
San Francisco...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 15, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Sep 6, 2006 5:27pm PDT
Detroit schools close as teachers strike enters second week The Detroit school district has decided to close all 225 schools in its system “until further notice,” following a failed attempt to reopen the schools in the face of the continuing strike by some 9,500 teachers and support staff. The teachers are fighting to defeat a vicious concessions drive by the district, which is demanding $90 million in wages and benefit givebacks....
Posted: Wed, Sep 6, 2006 6:41am PDT
9/7: Hotel Workers All-Day Picket at the St Francis (6am to 8pm) Join hotel workers and our allies at noon at the Westin St Francis Hotel on Union Square on Thursday September 7th
There will be picketing all day, so if you cannot come at noon, join the line anytime 6am-8pm...
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 11:53pm PDT
Hotel Workers All Day Picket, St Francis Thursday Westin St Francis Hotel on Union Square on Thursday September 7th...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 11:52pm PDT
The great unmentionable at Detroit’s Labor Day parade: Labor AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and assorted Michigan Democratic politicians gave the cold shoulder to striking Detroit teachers at Detroit’s annual Labor Day parade held Monday. Seven thousand Detroit teachers, members of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), are entering their second week of strike against the district’s drastic concession demands, including a 5.5 percent pay cut, increased out-of-pocket healthcare payments and the reduction of sick days....
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 7:32am PDT
A UNION MAN: The Life and Work of Julius Margolin Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
1606 Bonita near Cedar (through gate, UPSTAIRS)...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 16, 2006 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 3:02pm PDT
Photos From the September 4th 2006 Immigration Rights Labor Day March 
Thousands took to the streets today around the country to defend immigrants against attacks by Congress...
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 1:41pm PDT
High Stakes in Hotel Worker Battle "Our patience is running out very quickly... We will do whatever it takes." Those were the words of Lamoin Werlein-Jaen, UNITE HERE Local 2 Secretary-Treasurer, speaking to hotel workers rallied in front of the Palace Hotel last Thursday. Not long afterwards, dozens of hotel workers and supporters were carted away by police after they sat down and blocked the doors to the historic hotel....
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 8:12am PDT
LABOR DAY SCORECARD-006 TOUGH TIMES FOR THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT-AND THAT AINT NO LIE...
Posted: Sun, Sep 3, 2006 8:03am PDT
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