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Albertsons Two - Tiered Structure 
As Albertsons workers in Northern Ca wait their fate to see if they will be among many of the rumored store closers there is one Alberston worker that is not just going to take it!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 9:24pm PDT
Vicente Fox uses police to threaten Oaxacan schoolteachers on strike Vicente Fox threatens over 70,000 public schoolteachers in Oaxaca with police repression following a 12 day strike, walkout and encampment in Oaxaca City. Once again V. Fox fulfills his nickname of imperialist lapdog by using the Mexican military to silence worker's dissent.....
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 9:04pm PDT
Proposition D, Laguna Honda zoning changes SF Bay Guardian explanation of why it is opposing Proposition D...
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 12:30am PDT
Prop. D's misinformation campaign Opinion from the SF Bay Guardian on Proposition D. Written by Belinda Lyons who is the executive director of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. This op-ed is also endorsed by Steve Fields, cochair of the San Francisco Human Services Network; Bill Hirsh, executive director of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel; and Herb Levine, executive director of the Independent Living Resource Center....
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 12:24am PDT
US job growth falls in May, amid signs of slowing economy US employment grew by only 75,000 jobs in May, the smallest increase in seven months and down 40 percent from April’s figure. The rise was considerably smaller than expected, and it comes as only one of numerous indicators point to a slowing American economy....
Posted: Sat, Jun 3, 2006 11:29am PDT
Families of coal miners killed in Kentucky disaster protest exclusion from hearing More than a dozen family members of the five miners who died in a May 20 explosion at a Harlan County, Kentucky coal mine picketed outside a closed-door hearing Wednesday where federal and state investigators were questioning dozens of executives from Kentucky Darby LLC, as well as mine employees, about the circumstances that led to the tragedy. The families had been barred from attending the hearing and asking any questions because authorities said the state wanted witnesses to be as comfort...
Posted: Sat, Jun 3, 2006 11:24am 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: Fri, Jun 2, 2006 3:11am PDT
Shattuck Cinemas Employees To Vote on Forming a Union 
By Judith Scherr - Berkeley Daily Planet, May 30, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 3:54am PDT
June 26 Single-Payer SF Labor Council Forum Why SB 840,
the California Health
Insurance Reliability Act
is important to Labor...
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 10:18am PDT
6/1 Greyhound Security Worker Solidarity Solidarity with Security Workers!
Thursdays 5:30-6PM
Greyhound Bus Terminal
2103 San Pablo (X 21st St) - Oakland...
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 10:16am PDT
S. Africa’s workers strike for justice, jobs Earlier this month the people of South Africa celebrated the 10th anniversary of the first democratic constitution. The dismantling of the oppressive apartheid regime in the early 1990s, and the end of dominance by a privileged white minority, gave hope to millions of black South Africans seeking justice and self-determination....
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 7:24am PDT
UCSC Workers, Students Grill Chancellor, Give June 5 Deadline 
On Tuesday, May 23, UC Santa Cruz's custodians, part of the union AFSCME, continued their hard-fought wage parity campaign by staging a respectful protest inside Chancellor Denice Denton's Brown Bag event. The workers are frusterated over the Chancellor's lack of support for custodians and their families. While the Chancellor consistently refers to 'market rates' to justify top admin salaries (she earns upwards of $400,000/yr.), she has yet to support custodians whose poverty wages are up to ...
Posted: Tue, May 30, 2006 3:57am PDT
Two more US coal miners killed in Kentucky and West Virginia The almost daily toll of deaths and injuries in US coal mines continued this week with the loss of two young miners in Kentucky and West Virginia, just days after five coal miners were killed in a mine explosion in eastern Kentucky. The latest deaths bring the number of coal industry fatalities in the first five months of the year to 33, well over the 22 miners killed in all of 2005....
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 6:10am PDT
How About a Real Raise for Californians? California's minimum wage has been stuck at $6.75 an hour.
Although our cost of living is sky-high, we have the lowest
minimum wage of any state on the West Coast....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 6:39pm PDT
Solidarity with Oakland Greyhound Security Workers Today @5:30 Thursday - May 25 - 5:30 PM
Greyhound Bus Terminal
2103 San Pablo (X 21st St) - Oakland...
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 2:01pm PDT
Machinists union reaches tentative agreement with Northwest Airlines The leadership of the International Association of Machinists (IAM), representing 5,600 ramp workers and baggage handlers at Northwest Airlines, said over the weekend it will support a $190 million concessionary agreement to help bail out the bankrupt airline....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 11:19am PDT
Shattuck Cinema Union Campaign Update 
The National Labor Relations Board has given The Shattuck an election date! On June 16th, between 4:30 and 6:30pm on location at the theatre, the workers will have the opportuinty to make their voices heard and vote for the union....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 4:48am PDT
5/24: Young Workers United ACTION against unfair employer WHAT: Rally to send a message to restaurant owners like Si Senor Taqueria, other
businesses, and the media that the community will not tolerate the use of
immigration status to abuse workers.
WHEN: Wednesday May 24th at 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: Si Senor Taqueria, 53 Stevenson St...
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 10:31pm PDT
Bay Guardian Supports A "Shill" For Insurance Industry The SF Bay Guardian which touts itself as a paper for the people is supporting insurance funded
candidates for most offices. In SF they are supporting Leland Yee who has sided with the
crooked insurance companies against injured workers and statewide they are supporting
Bustamonte who has taken millions from the insurance companies and is running for
insurance commissioner. Their "candidates" show the owners of the SF Bay Guardian not to be
guardians by stooges of the insurance...
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 10:13pm PDT
Lack of oxygen supplies killed three in Kentucky mine disaster Preliminary autopsy results shows that three of the five miners who died in Saturday’s mine disaster in eastern Kentucky survived the initial blast, but died of carbon monoxide poisoning as they tried to escape. The findings underscore the likelihood that the three miners in Kentucky, like most of the West Virginia miners killed at the Sago Mine in January, would still be alive today if they had been given adequate oxygen supplies instead of outmoded respirators that provide at best one hour ...
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 8:50pm PDT
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