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6/20 Injured Workers To Confront Insurance Crooks At California Fraud Assessment Comm On June 20, 2006 in Sacramento, injured workers will be picketing and protesting the
insurance industry cover-up of criminal activity by insurance adjusters, lawyers and company
doctors who are falsifying injured workers reports....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 5:51pm PDT
Teachers and Children Massacred By State Police In Oaxaca, Mexico 
I'm writing about the situation in Oaxaca. As I write, the capital city is under siege. At approximately 5AM this morning the state police attacked the teachers occupation of the city center. Though reports are sketchy, it seems that three teachers have been killed, as well as a young girl. [LATEST FIGURE IS 8 ADULTS AND THREE CHILDREN -- SJ.]
The teachers have taken three or four police hostage. A raging battle is underway to control the zocalo, the center of life in Oaxaca, and the heart...
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 8:23am PDT
Australia: Workers’ conditions slashed under new industrial relations reforms A recent survey by the Howard government’s own Office of the Employment Advocate (OEA) confirms that Australian employers have lost no time in using the new draconian industrial relation laws (WorkChoices), which came into force on March 27, to eliminate longstanding working conditions....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 6:31am PDT
Mexican gov't strikes Mexican teachers, leaving 5 dead In its latest violent atrocity against labour and social movements,
the Mexican government has attacked striking Mexican teachers, leaving five dead. For over two weeks the Mexican teachers' union section in Oaxaca state has been carrying out an incredible campaign of growing protests and direct actions in support of their demands for higher wages and increased school funding. At their most recent march a few days ago in the state capital, over a 120 000 people participated....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 5:51pm PDT
US auto union signals its capitulation on wages, benefits and jobs United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger on Monday made clear that the union will accept sweeping and permanent reductions in health benefits, pensions and other conditions that for more than fifty years were considered inviolable provisions of UAW contracts with the US auto companies. The union’s abandonment of these core gains of past labor struggles comes in the midst of its collaboration with General Motors, Ford and the auto parts maker Delphi in the elimination of tens of thousand...
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 6:53am PDT
Protest Thu. 6/15: support SEIU Head Start Workers Thursday Emergency Protest...
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 11:34pm PDT
Emergency Rally to Support Head Start Workers Head Start HQ - 408 East Lake Avenue
Watsonville, California...
Event Date: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 8:33pm PDT
The social movements in France: Political lessons from the last 10 years For more than 200 years, France has been seen as the country in which class contradictions are most openly fought out and which provided the social impulse for events that have had European-wide repercussions. This applied to the revolutionary period from 1789 to 1815, and then again in 1831, 1848, 1871, and finally in 1968, when the May-June revolt, which began in Paris, spread like wildfire across Europe....
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 10:30pm PDT
David Bacon: "Children of NAFTA" Cabrillo College, Watsonville Annex, Forum Room...
Event Date: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 7:23pm PDT
Poland: Health care crisis provokes strikes and protests In recent months, many public- and private-sector doctors and health care professionals (HCPs) have taken to the streets across Poland in protest against low salaries, official government neglect of the health care sector, and, in general, the undignified and contemptible manner in which medical practitioners are treated in Poland...
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 9:30am PDT
Rally for IWW Shattuck Cinema Theater Workers in Berkeley 
The Shattuck Cinema Theater Workers will have their NLRB sponsored union election on Friday, June 16, 2006....
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 8:27am PDT
Right to organize gains ground in Congress Fifty-seven million Americans say they’d join a union if they had a chance. And due to a hard-fought, close to the ground campaign, legislation to give them that right is now within striking distance of victory....
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 10:49pm PDT
Left with No Future by GM and Delphi Tough talk from United Auto Workers (UAW) leaders will abound at the union's convention in Las Vegas June 11-15, which takes place amid the union's strike threat at bankrupt parts maker Delphi Automotive Systems....
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 10:43pm PDT
Stand-off Continues as Oaxaca Teachers Strike enters Fourth Week Teachers Soliciting Signatures to Impeach Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz in a Struggle Between Civil Society and the PRI...
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 10:41pm PDT
Where is the leverage for U.S. workers in the fight with Delphi and GM? Labor’s potential strength is mighty, greater than any other social force on earth, because of what workers produce worldwide and because labor represents the interests of the overwhelming majority of humanity. The current attacks on labor are driven by capitalism’s deepening contradictions, its growing weakness, not strength....
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 10:39pm PDT
Campaigns to raise the minimum wage sweep the country Because Congress has refused to raise the $5.15 an hour minimum wage since 1997, coalitions of labor, religious and community groups are organizing voters to do so, one state at a time. So far 21 states and Washington, D.C., have done so. Similar campaigns are under way in another dozen states....
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 10:38pm PDT
The Bawag affair and the decay of the Austrian trade unions A scandal involving the trade union-owned Labour and Economics Bank (Bawag) has revealed the true extent of the rottenness of the Austrian trade union movement. The Austrian trade union federation (OEGB) is currently experiencing the deepest crisis in its more-than-50-year history....
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 7:03am PDT
Profits Fall, Stores Close: Grocery Chains and Bush's Ownership Society There are too many U.S. grocery chain stores, said George Whalin, head of Retail Management Consultants, in The Sacramento Bee of June 7. Call it overcapacity in the grocery industry....
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 11:40am PDT
Demo Today in Oakland in Solidarity with Security Workers Noble Tower Apartments at 1515 Lakeside Drive, Downtown Oakland. Between 4:45 and 5pm, the action will move over to the Park Bellevue Towers at the Corner of Perkins and Bellevue.
also, a meeting:
Thursday, June 14, 7:00 pm
CWA Local 9415 Union Hall...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 2:51pm PDT
Bush Spares Tiny Island Nations, Bashes Gays Instead Gays have a new role: uniting the Republican Party and protecting innocents from diversionary U.S. bombs. Surely the president, the writer says, is finally finding his stride. Sandip Roy is an editor for New America Media and host of "UpFront," a NAM weekly radio program on KALW-91.7 FM, San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 6:47am PDT
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