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The End of Security The state has a social nature and isn't only a security and power state. If the state is reduced to a trough or waterboy for capital, the class compromise is dissolved and justice becomes an abstraction. Neoliberal myths legitimate the growing precariusness....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 6:03am PDT
Union leader jailed for New York City transit strike Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint was jailed in New York City Monday, after a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge sentenced him to 10 days imprisonment and fined the union local $2.5 million for carrying out the 60-hour strike last December....
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 10:06pm PDT
PoP dEFECT RADIO: May Day Special: Worker Songs Vol1 (audio/mpeg 25.8MB) A May Day Special for all the workers bustin their asses in wage slave jobs
featuring songs and commentary by The Pinkos, Rube Waddel, U Utah Phillips, Fiffteen, Jon Lee, Tree more..
Happy May Day!!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 7:38am PDT
4/28SF Labor TV Programming On Workers Who Rebuilt SF After The Quake The labor TV show "Labor On The Job" produced by the Labor Video Project will program a show
on the commemoration of the rebuilding of San Francisco and the role of labor with professor Lee
Davis....
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 1:40pm PDT
NYC Union Chief Remains Defiant Hours Before Heading to Jail for Leading Transit Strike Roger Toussaint, president of the Transport Workers Union, Local 100, heads to jail today to serve a 10-day sentence for authorizing a strike in December that shut down New York City's Transit system for a little more than two days. Hours before heading jail, Toussaint joins us in our firehouse studio to discuss the strike, the future of the union and what he calls the "extortionist media."...
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 7:36am PDT
Pension cuts and inequality wiping out retirement for American workers For a growing number of US workers, dreams of a decent retirement are quickly evaporating as companies shift retirement costs onto workers, in the form of deductions from already declining wages, in order to maintain profits in a competitive global economy....
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 7:26am PDT
Commander: Contractors violating U.S. trafficking laws WASHINGTON - The top U.S. commander in Iraq has ordered sweeping changes for privatized military support operations after confirming violations of human-trafficking laws and other abuses by contractors involving possibly thousands of foreign workers on American bases, according to records obtained by the Chicago Tribune....
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 11:11pm PDT
5/18 SF Report On Labor Media From South Africa To Turkey Labor media producer Steve Zeltzer will report on the use of labor media in Africa and Turkey at a
a forum at New College of California on Thursday May 18, 2006 at 7:00PM. He will also screen
video....
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 4:57pm PDT
Exposing the UFCW...Part 1 & 2 Rumors are nasty little buggars that have a way of becoming snippets of truth, or are just pesky pieces of bullshit causing people problems. Kind of like a rash, the minor chafing a guy gets when...well all you guys know what i'm talking about....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 7:38pm PDT
4/21 E. Bay Labor And Immigrants Unite Rally At IBT 70 East bay labor councils and immigrant rights groups will discuss and rally at IBT Local 70 hall....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 12:39pm PDT
Labor Video On The Fight For Pay Equity Justice At UC (video/quicktime 44.6MB) This program is part of presentation on October 8-9 2005 by Maurice G. Freedman, past president of the American
Library Association about pay equity and the state of librarian workers....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 11:15am PDT
Virginia students sit in, 17 arrested in solidarity with campus workers for living wage Seventeen University of Virginia students were arrested on the Charlottesville campus April 15 because they staged a four-day sit-in at the university president’s office. The students demanded the administration accept its “moral responsibility” and commit to paying a living wage to university workers....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 6:53am PDT
ACTION ALERT: Tell Chipotle + McD's Farmworkers Want"Work With Dignity" Send a letter to McDonald's CEO Jim Skinner and Chipotle CEO Steve Ells demanding they sign the agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to improve wages and conditions for farm workers....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 11:58pm PDT
WAJE Hands Over 6,000 Petition Signatures (audio/mpeg 2.2MB) Photos & Audio (3 min 12 sec) of Nora Hochman and Victor Medina from the Working Alliance for a Just Economy (WAJE) as the group turned over thousands of signatures at City Hall to be verified in the ballot initiative process. If enough signatures qualify, the minimum wage hike will go before the voters in November....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 11:37pm PDT
As Crisis Deepens ... Is Labor Finally Showing Signs of a Comeback? As labor activists from around the country and world converge on Dearborn, Michigan in early May for the Labor Notes Conference, it’s worth reflecting back on a year that has brought back hopes for a revitalization of the labor movement....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 5:24pm PDT
SF Hearing For Grocery Workers Retention Ordinance Monday, 17 April: Dozens of San Francisco grocery store workers and union leaders testified before the Board of Supervisors Committee on City Operations in support of the proposed Grocery Workers Retention Ordinance....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 3:40pm PDT
STRIKE AVERTED, BUT SCHOOLS STILL CLOSED TOMORROW!!! Just minutes ago the Oakland Education Association reps confirmed that they have reached a settlement and while teachers will be going to work tomorrow, it is still a non-student day ....because the district cannot assure that everyone will get the word and they cannot guarantee safe staffing levels. An extra day will probably be added at the end of the school year....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 12:40am PDT
Free Mind Media's May Day Anniversary 
FREE MIND MEDIA 1ST ANIVERSARY PARTY
April 29th HUGE BLOWOUT BOOKSALE 9-4pm
PARTY 4pm – 7pm
Guest Speakers:
Harjit Gil - Industrial Workers of the World
Davin Cardenas - Graton Day Laborers
Jack Gerson – Comunications Chair of the Oakland Educators Association
Music: Jonh Courage and Friends TBA
Puppet Show: Free Mind Media “A Year in Review”...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 9:40pm PDT
Oakland Schools Strike tomorrow: Ward caves in: No Scabs Oakland Adult school still needs picketeers...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 5:15pm PDT
The 5th Annual May Day Labor Film Festival "Reel Work" 
The 5th annual Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival is jam packed this year with sixteen different events starting Thursday April 20, and ending May 1st, International Workers' Day. This year's festival includes the regional premier screening of Sir! No Sir! a film about rank-and-file GI resistance to the Vietnam War as well as Meeting Face to Face, a film partially funded by Reel Work which depicts the historic nationwide visit of Iraqi labor union leaders to the US in 2005. Highlights o...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 5:07pm PDT
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