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Fidel Central Act Presides Over for the 26 of Julio. With the Commandant's presence in Boss Fidel Castro Ruz, fair at 7.00 o'clock a.m. he gave beginning the Central Commemorative Act for the anniversary 53 of the Assaults to the Barracks Moncada and Carlos Manuel of Grasses that takes place in the Square of the Homeland of Bayamo, capital of the eastern province of Granma ....
Posted: Wed, Jul 26, 2006 6:35am PDT
Siege at the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco by HERE Local 2 
Members of The Hotel Employee's and Resturant Employee's Union local 2 staged a siege, a temporary picket line, Friday, July 21, 2006 in front of the Hilton Hotel on O'Farrell Street to highlight the fact that the Union's contract with the hotel expired on August 14 2004....
Posted: Tue, Jul 25, 2006 10:32pm PDT
Adam Smith meets Cousin Ronnie's Boy That ain't no underclass; it's 250 million rugged individuals being pissed on!...
Posted: Tue, Jul 25, 2006 11:30am PDT
Commemorate 1916 Uprising and Role Of Irish Workers In SF Earthquake Join LaborFest on July 25, 2006 at 7:00 PM at the Irish Cultural Center when it celebrates the 1916
Uprising and the role of Irish workers in rebuilding San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. The event
will include poetry, music, film and theater....
Posted: Tue, Jul 25, 2006 9:35am PDT
SF Hotel Workers March Where: Union Square
SF...
Event Date: Thu, Jul 27, 2006 4:15pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 11:08pm PDT
Never Say Die! A Night to Benefit Modern Times Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St. @ 20th
415.282.9246...
Event Date: Wed, Aug 9, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 10:11pm PDT
Injured Workers Speak Out on Workers’ Compensation Reforms Several workers who had been injured on the job testified at a hearing in Oakland June 29 before the Division of Workers’ Compensation. The state is seeking to modify some of the ‘reforms’ enacted in 2003 which have had a severe impact on injured workers who face delays in medical treatment, denial of compensation, and a bureaucratic nightmare dealing with a system that is biased towards employers and insurance companies....
Posted: Sat, Jul 22, 2006 11:13am PDT
UC Unions, Employees Protest Pension Plan Changes Employees of the UC system are protesting plans to make workers contribute a portion of their salary to their retirement plan. Julia Harte is an intern at New America Media....
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 9:01pm PDT
Sukdulan sa Langit ang Pagiging Garapal at Pasista ng Rehimeng-US- Arroy – Sa paghirang sa kanyang masusugid na tagasunod sa military at mga garapal na lumalabag sa karapatang pantao, tuluyan nang inilantad ni Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ang kanyang pagiging papet pasista at teroristang anti-masa.Hindi lamang nito hinirang si Hermogenes Esperon bilang Hepe ng AFP kundi itinaas pa sa ranggo ang mga masusugid na pasista at mamatay-taong sina Heneral Romeo Tolentino ng NOLCOM bilang Hepe ng Philippine Army at iba pang opisyal. ulad ni Marcos nakahanda na ang hatol ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 10:52am PDT
Protest caravan from Southern Tagalog Protests from the urban poor in Southern Tagalog geared towards Monday's State of the Nation Address (SONA) began as early as Wednesday and are now on the third day of a six-day caravan dubbed "Lakbay-Riles ng Maralita laban sa kagutuman, dislokasyon at karahasan ." The caravan took-off from Gumaca, Quezon around 8AM today and is set to reach San Pablo City at around 3PM, but protesters fear that they may be blocked again amid NCRPO chief Vidal Querol's statement that a special operations gro...
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 10:29am PDT
SEIU'S STERN's corporate collusion SEIU leader Andy Stern is making nice with his corporate buddies to 'solve' the health care crisis.
Stern opposes single-payer health insurance and would rather convene a bunch of CEOs to screw over workers than call on workers to unite behind the only system that will work - single payer.
Along with the SEIU's support of Bush's bracero program, this latest sell-out shows why SEIU has not changed to win, but rather, changed to benefit the corporate class. While SEIU represents hundreds ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 9:05am PDT
IWW Shattuck Cinema theater workers initiate contract struggle against management IWW memebers including Sharon, Jason and Bryan from Shattuck Cinemas and Bay Area IWW members Harjit and Leo met for four hours on Thursday to present contract proposals to Landmark corporate hired gun attorney Tom Pavone....
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 2:45am PDT
Bush Labor Board Refuses to Hear Us You can join the action and make your voice heard today.
The Bush-appointed National Labor Relations Board has refused to hear oral arguments before deciding three cases that could rob hundreds of thousands of workers of their basic rights.
Urge your members of Congress to tell Bush’s labor board to reverse its decision and listen to the public...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 11:51pm PDT
SF Green Party Movie Night 1028 "A" Howard Street (between 6th & 7th), San Francisco...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 26, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 7:56pm PDT
U.S.-S. Korea unions link up vs. ‘free trade’ pact Worried about the failure of “free trade” deals for workers and farmers, U.S. and South Korean unions are joining forces to oppose the proposed Korean-U.S. Free Trade Agreement....
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 7:02pm PDT
NLRB feels ‘street heat’ The streets outside the National Labor Relations Board office in Washington were sizzling, and it wasn’t just the July heat. For the first time in its 70-year history, the board was shut down for two hours July 13 as nine union and religious leaders, backed by 1,500 labor supporters, blocked traffic outside. It was a pre-emptive strike on a pending NLRB decision on three potentially far-reaching cases....
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 7:01pm PDT
Show Solidarity with Blue Diamond Workers! Report on action by Blue Diamond Workers, unionists, and supports, and the Almond Board meeting in Modesto CA!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 9:37am PDT
Oakland General Strike 60th anniversary celebration events 7/22 & 7/23 
The 60th Anniversary Celebration of the Oakland General Strike will be on Saturday, July, 22nd at 6 p.m. at the YWCA of Oakland, 1515 Webster (at 15th St.).
And the Oakland General Strike Walk will be on Sunday, July 23rd at 2 p.m. The walk will meet at Latham Square, where Broadway and Telegraph converge, where the streets of Oakland in 1946 were full with working class people singing and dancing during their “Work Holiday.” The nearest BART station is 12th St./Oakland City Center BART...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 7:47am PDT
San Francisco Minimum Wage Enforcement Legislation Passes received on 7/18...
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 10:45pm PDT
The failed effort to get together a transit system fare strike in San Francisco in 2005 MUNI SOCIAL STRIKEOUT: A critique of our efforts to foment a mass "self-reduction" movement on San Francisco's Muni public transit system.
The various leaflets refered to in the text of this article will soon be available, along with the article itself, on my web page, 'Love and Treason,' at
http://www.infoshop.org/myep/love2.html...
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 6:16pm PDT
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