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Urgent Action for emails/faxes - Costa Rican Union Leaders Face Trial August 23, 2006 Costa Rican trade union representative and popular political activist Orlando Barrantes could be unfairly jailed, due to fake charges leveled against him over the last five years, in the wake of a violent police attack on a peaceful march in December of 2000, during strike activity in the Atlantic Region of the country. The conviction and imprisonment of Barrantes and his co-defendant Iván Angulo (a local organizer) would criminalize political and social protest....
Posted: Sun, Aug 13, 2006 10:27pm PDT
Stop Department of Homeland Security -- SSA No-Match Letters Campaign . Under the proposed rule, employers could be held liable for violating immigration law if they continue to employ workers who receive notification that the name and social security number they gave their employer does not match the Social Security Administration's (SSA) records (otherwise known as an SSA "no-match" letter) ...We must fight back! Public comments are due to DHS by Monday, August 14, 2006....
Posted: Sun, Aug 13, 2006 12:42pm PDT
Purnima Bose on GE and the Emergence of the Professional Manager California Institute of Integral Studies
Address: 1453 Mission Street (btw. 10th and 11th) in San Francisco
Venue: 2nd Floor, Room 207
http://www.ciis.edu/about/directions.html...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 9, 2006 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Aug 12, 2006 4:08pm PDT
SF State Assemblyman Leland Yee Takes Orders From Bosses Further Harming Injured Workers SF State Assemblyman Leland Lee is continuing his role as a puppet for employers and
anti-worker interests. He recently dropped legislation that would have helped injured
workers recover from their injuries by ending the time limits for treatments....
Posted: Sat, Aug 12, 2006 2:43pm PDT
NOAM CHOMSKY'S REAL VIEW OF THE WORKING CLASS Posted is a copy of an e-mail I received from Noam Chomsky....
Posted: Fri, Aug 11, 2006 9:22pm PDT
Young Workers United Hot in the City Update An update of Young Workers United activities the summer of 2006 including cases won, organizing campaigns, and news on paid sick days....
Posted: Fri, Aug 11, 2006 4:39pm PDT
AFSCME Endorses Medical Marijuana links embedded in original article on stopthedrugwar.org...
Posted: Fri, Aug 11, 2006 9:53am PDT
Premiere of "Nurses Vs. Arnold" Movie//Prop. 89 Event Grand Lake Thater--3200 Grand Av. in Oaklant...
Event Date: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 3:23pm PDT
Hundreds of Mexican Miners Fired for Striking NACOZARI, Sonora, Mexico--Just days after conservative candidate Felipe Calderon declared himself the winner of Mexico's July 2 presidential election, the Mexican federal labor board lowered the boom on striking miners. At Nacozari, one of the world's largest copper mines, just a few miles south of Arizona, 1,400 miners have been on strike since March 24. On July 12 the board said they'd abandoned their jobs, and gave the mine's owner, Grupo Mexico, permission to close down operations....
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 6:52am PDT
Now Let's Have a REAL Minimum Wage Vote Tell Congress: Republicans must stop playing political games and schedule a vote on a minimum wage increase without “poison pills.”...
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 11:06pm PDT
8/21 Laid Off DPW Workers to Hold Hunger Strike in SF WHAT: Week-long hunger strike and vigil; Press Conference on Monday, August
21, 10 am, Front steps of City Hall.
WHERE: SF City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl.
WHEN: Monday, August 21, 8 am to Friday, August 25, 5 pm....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 11:54am PDT
8/11 SF Newspaper Workers Protest SF Chron Hearst Corp SF Chronicle Pressmen will be protesting the attacks on the union on Friday August 11. 2006 at
noon in front of the SF Chronicle at 5th & Mission St....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 7:35am PDT
Coalition for Paid Sick Days Presents Case Last week the Coalition for Paid Sick Days presented before the Board of Supervisors the case for San Francisco’s ailing workers. Today, the coalition, which consists of Young Workers United, the Chinese Progressive Association, SEIU-Committee of Interns and Residents, Center for Young Women’s Development, and Young Community Developers, continues to perfect the legislation that will go onto the November 2006 ballot. The proposal is expected to go through with the support of supervisors Peski...
Posted: Mon, Aug 7, 2006 7:11am PDT
Battle Cry Against Power Tripping This is an introduction to the dignitarian movement and suggestions for what young people can do to combat rankism in the workplace....
Posted: Mon, Aug 7, 2006 6:56am PDT
STARBUCKS INFAMY: IWW Organizer Daniel Gross Terminated for Union Activity! TAKE ACTION NOW!
The Starbucks "investigation" of IWW member Daniel Gross concluded today with his termination after more than three years of organizing at the company....
Posted: Sat, Aug 5, 2006 10:50pm PDT
Victory! - IWW Helps Landmark Cinemas Corporation Discover Cash Workers at Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley and all Landmark Cinema employees nation wide are about to receive a pay increse....
Posted: Sat, Aug 5, 2006 12:45pm PDT
UFCW Local 8: Members Pay With No Say! It's 4 months since Loveall's “bigger is better Local 8 Golden State”merger mania - which robbed Local 588 member's of their democratic right - came into effect. Mergers at election time in the Loveall rich local have facilitated one Loveall (and now another) to warm the 588 Presidential throne for over two decades....
Posted: Sat, Aug 5, 2006 7:48am PDT
US minimum wage remains at $5.15 an hour Before the US Congress adjourned for a four-week summer recess, the Senate voted down a bill late Thursday that would have provided a $2.10 increase in the federal minimum wage, from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour....
Posted: Fri, Aug 4, 2006 9:39pm PDT
US Senate rejects minimum wage hike Democrats in the Republican-controlled US Senate blocked a final vote on a controversial measure that would have raised the federal minimum wage by a little over two dollars over three years....
Posted: Fri, Aug 4, 2006 3:12pm PDT
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