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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
Action Alert: AB 2536 Household Worker Rights Bill needs your support > The CA Assembly will vote on AB 2536 by the end of the month and we need
> you to tell your assembly members that you think household workers deserve
> equal labor protections....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 7:58pm PDT
UC Regents Meeting reportback 5/17 (audio/mpeg 6.0MB) On Wednesday 5/17 the UC Regents held a meeting at UCSF. Students, Workers and unions were present, primarily in response to UC's plan to cut workers' pensions. The unions were united & unapologetic, cheering loudly as three California State Senators including Figeroa (D) and Maldonado (R), called for Dynes' resignation....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 2:44pm 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: Tue, May 23, 2006 1:06pm PDT
Democrats’ liberal icon George McGovern justifies wage cuts for workers, bonuses for CEOs It would be hard to find more compelling evidence of the bankruptcy of Democratic Party liberalism and the fundamental hostility of this big business party to the interests of the working class than an opinion column published in Monday’s Los Angeles Times under the byline of former South Dakota Senator George McGovern....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 9:36am PDT
BAM/PFA Management Forces Resignation of Curator Chris Gilbert Over Venezuelan Exhibit BAM/PFA management have forced the resignation of Matrix Curator Chris Gilbert who has
recently curated a powerful exhibition on the struggle of Venezuelan workers and alternative
media....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 9:12am PDT
Photos from the March in solidarity with the workers who were fired from Chevy's 
These are photos from the rally. We met at Dr Powers park in the middle of Tracy, held a brief rally, and then Marched 4 miles to the Chevys where we held a symbolic picket. Most of the passing drivers that reacted at all honked in support. Only three or four gave us the finger or shouted negative comments at us. Neighbors mostly showed support, although one chickenshit sprayed their garden hose at us from behind a wall....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2006 11:45am PDT
Five miners killed in Kentucky explosion Five coal miners were killed in an explosion that ripped through an eastern Kentucky mine early Saturday morning. The fatal blast took place at about 1:00 a.m. at the Darby Mine No. 1 in Harlan County, killing five of the six men on a maintenance crew at the mine, located near the Virginia border....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2006 7:01am PDT
Ayuda urgente para campesinos del sur de Los Angeles 
Campesinos del sur de Los Ángeles esperan un milagro
22 de mayo de 2006
Hoy se cumple el plazo para que reúnan los fondos que les permita comprar el jardín comunitario...
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2006 4:22am PDT
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