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47,600 GM and Delphi workers accept buyouts and early retirement A vote of no confidence in the United Auto Workers union...
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 6:19am PDT
The Ideology of the 5 Levers “ The new and definitive road of the economic and social competition “...
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 12:29am PDT
'State of Perdition' -- South American Laborers Describe Working in New Orleans Two workers rebuilding New Orleans describe the long hours and lack of job security of contract labor -- conditions familiar to one young California reporter....
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 6:31am PDT
No Decision Reached On Wage Ordinance After a weeklong delay, the wage implementation and enforcement ordinance underwent further deliberation but received no decision at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. The legislation on the table seeks to secure a steady source of funding for implementing San Francisco’s minimum wage law. The law, brought into effect with the passing of Proposition L in November 2003, increased the city’s minimum wage to $8.82 per hour, a full $2 above California’s minimum wage rate. Unfortunately, over...
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 6:30am PDT
Oakland: Meeting Face to Face: the Iraq-U.S. Solidarity Tour Humanist Hall
390 27th Street
midtown Oakland, between Telegraph and Broadway, below Pill Hill
http://www.HumanistHall.net...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 10:57pm PDT
David Bacon: Children of NAFTA (audio/mpeg 27.5MB) For over fifteen years, David Bacon has been a documentary photographer, covering labor movements, immigration, and international politics. His background as a labor organizer with UFW, UEW, ILGW, and other unions, gives Bacon a unique perspective on migration, and the struggle for worker's rights. David Bacon spoke on Friday, June 23 in Watsonville, about his recent book, The Children of NAFTA. TRT- 29:58...
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 4:54pm PDT
6,000 CONTRA COSTA COUNTY EMPLOYEES ANNOUNCE JUNE 27 STRIKE DATE (June 20, 2006--Martinez, CA) After a year of bargaining, the labor unions making up the Contra Costa County Labor Coalition representing over 6,000 workers in Contra Costa County will strike on Tuesday, June 27. The countywide strike will affect every County office and facility from Richmond to Brentwood and from Danville to Martinez, including the Martinez Medical Center, the Pittsburg and Richmond Clinics....
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 9:49pm PDT
Labor Activists, Working Poor Blast Senate Refusal to Raise Minimum Wage Organizations that support minorities and the working poor are condemning Wednesday's U.S. Senate vote against raising the federal minimum wage from $5.15 an hour, but some said they were not surprised....
Posted: Sun, Jun 25, 2006 11:00am PDT
Detroit janitors fight for union wages, benefits DETROIT — On June 15, national Justice for Janitors day, several hundred Detroit area janitors, members of Service Employees International Union Local 3, marched to the new downtown PricewaterhouseCoopers building to send notice to New Image, the nonunion cleaning contractor servicing the building, that they will not allow nonunion businesses to take root in the city. On their way back, the marchers were warmly greeted by many fans leaving the stadium of baseball’s first-place Detroit Tigers....
Posted: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 10:05am PDT
Leaders and Led Leaders are our example and we should emulate and follow that example at all times, in this way we guarantee a future of complete destructive ‘anarchy’ for the world – ‘blessed are the liars and murderers for they have inherited the earth’! Whatever the discourse and regardless of any other consideration we will incorporate it to achieve our aims. The law and other ‘constraints’ are for the weak; we create and alter laws according to our needs. ‘Sedition’ automatically implies our ‘right’ and...
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 7:03am PDT
Bay Area Teachers Support Oaxaca Colleagues (video/quicktime 22.7MB) On Friday, June 16th, Teachers for Social Justice called a picket at the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco. Thirty Bay Area teachers delivered a letter of concern which the Consulate promised to forward to the PRI governor of Oaxaca. Karen Zapata, Teachers for Social Justice; Dennis Kelly, United Educators of San Francisco; and, Ed Murray, San Francisco Community College Federation of Teachers, spoke. Four-minute QT movie. 23MB....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 9:37pm PDT
Activists Demand Prosecution of Insurers, Too/Next Action In Oakland 6/29 Injured workers protested the corrupt Insurance Assessment Commission's refusal to prosecute
insurance companies for fraud and terrorism against injured workers....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 10:48am PDT
BAY AREA Summer Organizing Internship – UNITE! HERE UNITE! HERE International Union is accepting applications for a Bay Area summer paid internship program ($550/wk stipend)....
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 6:42pm PDT
Memorial Service for Jay (Zalmo/Buck) BloomBecker (6/25) Come join us in honoring Jay’s memory!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 12:19am PDT
Support Oaxaca teachers on strike! (Videos + article) Below is some raw fottage of what's happening....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 9:53pm PDT
Union Members Lose While The Loveall Leadership Gets Rich! While union members of new UFCW Local 8 Golden State continue to be pledged with concessions ,store closures and job uncertainty the Loveall leadership continues to get rich off the backs of rank n file workers....
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 9:29pm PDT
Minimum Wage 'Showdown' This Week It’s urgent that you contact your U.S. senators and representative now and tell them to vote for a minimum wage increase and reject any amendments designed to hurt workers....
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 7:36pm PDT
Illegal? Fugitive? Need a SSN? Use 000-00-0000, 9 million other people have! The federal Government Accountability Office found that between 1985 and 2000, 9 million people got hired using this Social Security number: 000-00-0000....
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 9:31am PDT
Widespread unrest erupts among textile workers in Bangladesh Angry protests by thousands of textile workers broke out last month around the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka and reemerged again this month. The unrest threatened to create a political crisis for the government, as the economy is heavily dependent on textile and garment exports produced in the country’s sweatshops....
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 6:37am PDT
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