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Fresno Living Wage
The campaign for a living wage for the city of Fresno launches a new website at www.livingwage-fresno.org....
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 9:00am PDT
Upton Sinclair's Jungle: A Read-Aloud Event
EXIT Theatre
156 Eddy Street, San Francisco, near the Powell Street BART...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 15, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 1:11am PDT
Shattuck Theater Workers Union Rally
Shattuck Cinema
2230 Shattuck Avenue
near Kittredge Street
Berkeley, CA
United States
See map: Google Maps...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 22, 2006 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 3:59am PDT
IWW Organizing Update - Shattuck Theater Workers Union Rally
Bay Area General Membership Branch Group...
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 3:46am PDT
Spain: Unions agree to anti-working class labour reforms
Last year, Spanish unions threatened a “Winter of Discontent” when the Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) government announced proposals to reform labour laws to enable employers to dismiss workers more easily....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 6:32am PDT
Michigan auto union officials convicted in extortion scheme
A federal jury in Detroit has found two United Auto Workers (UAW) officials guilty of prolonging an 87-day strike at General Motors facilities in Pontiac, Michigan in order to pressure management to give jobs to friends and family members. The jury returned the verdict June 26 after little more than one day of deliberations....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 6:28am PDT
Bay Area Nurses Take to the Streets
Three hundred nurses and allies marched in Oakland July 11th to demand protection of right to organize and advocate for patients....
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 4:29pm PDT
7/14 SF Hilton Siege Picket
San Francisco HERE UNITE Local 2 workers are still without contracts for 4,000 workers. On
Friday July 14, 2006 from 12 noon to 6:00 PM there will be a Hilton Siege Picket at the SF Hilton
which is located at O'Farrell and Mason St. San Francisco...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 12:54pm PDT
7/11 Protest In Oakland Over NLRB Union Busting
The NLRB is seeking to prevent supervisors from being in unions. This will eliminate many
workers from being members of unions including the CNA, ILWU, IUOE and others....
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 11:25am PDT
60th Anniversary Celebration of 1946 Oakland General Strike
Oakland YWCA
1515 Webster Street, at 15th Street
Oakland, California...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 22, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 5:55pm PDT
SF: Labor and Organizing: Lessons for Labor
ILWU Local 6 Hall
255 9th Street, near Howard, San Francisco...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 1:13pm PDT
SF: Solidarity Has No Borders
ILWU Local 10, Henry Schmidt Rm
400 North Point St. at Mason, SF...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 1:08pm PDT
SF General Strike Walk
starts Harry Bridges Plaza - Front of Ferry Building
Embarcadero, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 10:30am PDT
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 1:01pm PDT
A Congress with Marie Antoinette Values: The Politics of the Minimum Wage
Whatever led to the metastasis of corporate demons inside the brain of the Democratic Party over the last thirty years, it has paid off the business establishment. The cost of freezing the minimum wage has deprived millions of working Americans of trillions of dollars for their necessities of life....
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 8:16am PDT
SF: International Working Class Film & Video Festival
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 9:03pm PDT
SF: Writers Workshop With Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The Exit Theatre
156 Eddy St., San Francisco (near Powell BART station)...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 8:58pm PDT
Labor Fest- Presente! (Book Reading)
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St. at 20th, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 8:51pm PDT
A MODEST PROPOSAL- RECRUIT, RUN INDPENDENT LABOR MILITANT CANDIDATES IN THE 2006 ELECTIONS
IN THE TIME OF THE GREAT FEAR WE NEED OUR OWN CANDIDATES....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 10:21am PDT
Black security officers march for freedom from poverty
Los Angeles (PRNewswire) – Hundreds of mostly Black security officers, joined by the NAACP, SCLC, elected leaders and community groups from South L.A. marched downtown on Friday to the Building Owners and Managers Association headquarters, protesting poverty conditions in the private security industry....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:49am PDT