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textOppose Bush Administration Effort to Undermine Civil Rights Enforcement by NOW
A huge swath of our nation's workforce loses the benefit of vigorous civil rights enforcement if this data disappears and is not used....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 12:21pm PST
textUS: AK Steel lockout enters second week by wsws (reposted)
AK Steel’s lockout of 2,700 workers at its Middletown, Ohio, mill entered its second week Thursday as evidence mounts that the company’s provocative actions and its sweeping demands for job cuts and wage and benefit concessions are aimed at making it more attractive to a potential buyer....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 9:48pm PST
text3/9 Oakland Meet/Video Screening On Epidemic Of Union Busting&How To Fight It by Labor Video Project
Locked out Boilermakers Bob Glenn and Paul Sturgeon and other fired workes will discuss their struggles for justice on the job. There will also be a screening of "Lockout 484" and "Solidarity Has No Borders, The Journey of the Neptune Jade"...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 7:44pm PST
textUnion Scores Big Victory Against Starbucks at Labor Board by Starbucks Workers' Union (repost)
Coffee Giant Must Rehire Fired Baristas and Rescind National Anti-Union Policies...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 10:48am PST
imageAFSCME Workers Take Struggle to UCSC Chancellor's Doorstep
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by josh sonnenfeld
On the night of March 7, custodians of AFSCME 3299 and their families, along with student and worker supporters, marched to the gates of UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton's on-campus home. The more than 200-strong crowd demanded the Chancellor support workers' struggles for dignity and justice, including wage parity with other regional colleges where workers make dollars more per hour for the same (or less) work. The march, organized by AFSCME 3299 in coordination with MEChA de UCSC a...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 5:06am PST
textDoctors Protest Sutters Corporate Takeover; Marin Tells Sutter to Get Out; Alta Bates Summ by Sutter Corporate Watch
Doctors Protest Sutter's Corporate Takeover; Marin Tells Sutter to Get Out; Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Fails JCAHO Readiness Test Bay Area Doctors Say Sutter's Corporate Medicine is Bad for Patients Doctors protest Sutter's plans; San Leandro care at risk, 70 physicians claim...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:34pm PST
textBerkeley Honda Strikers Need YOU ! by via list
Thursday 4:30-6pm Saturday 1-2:30pm. Parker and Shattuck in Berkeley...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 12:28pm PST
textNational strike by miners, steelworkers reveals class tensions in Mexico by wsws (reposted)
Last week, more than a quarter-million miners and steelworkers walked off their jobs in one of the largest industrial strikes in Mexico in three decades. Between March 1 and March 3, hundreds of mines and mills across the country were affected by the national strike called by the 270,000-member National Mine and Metal Workers Union (STNMM)....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:31am PST
textAT&T acquisition of BellSouth to eliminate 10,000 jobs by wsws (reposted)
AT&T said Monday that its deal to acquire BellSouth will mean the destruction of 10,000 jobs over three years. The acquisition, valued at $67 billion, will, if it is approved by government regulators and withstands anticipated legal challenges, mark a major further step in the monopolization of telecommunications services in the US. As is clear from Monday’s announcement, it will spark an even more aggressive attack on the jobs, wages and conditions of telecommunications workers....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:17am PST
imageWhen 'port security' targets workers
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by Worker Freedom
Jack Heyman - San Francisco Chronicle, March 6, 2006....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 6:35am PST
textAnti-labor terrorists attack striking hospital workers at Eden Hospital by repost
The latest attack on labor picketlines occurred at Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, CA last week. Last fall, there were goons paid by California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco to attack hospital workers, mostly women, on the picketline. These anti-labor thugs are terrorists, and that is who the terrorists always are: Anti-labor, warmongering, racist, anti-women, anti-abortion, anti-gay thugs, and the politicians and captialist class who pay them. Terrorism is by definition a...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 6:32am PST
imageComing Soon: 5th Annual Santa Cruz Reel Work Film Festival
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by Reel Work
The 5th annual May Day Labor Film Festival, "REEL WORK," announces 2006 schedule....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 9:24pm PST
textNew Infoshop News podcast by Infoshop News
The new installment of the bi-weekly Infoshop News podcast is now available for downloading and listening. The Infoshop News Show features news from the Infoshop News newswire, music, interviews and other features. This edition features the last part of Infoshop's 2005 interview with Jon Bekken, who is a professor at Albright College and longtime editor of the Industrial Worker....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 7:25pm PST
imageWhat is the Naked Truth?
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by ~Bradley
On March 1st, students demonstrated at the base of UC Santa Cruz to demand that the UC comply with their "Code of Conduct" Policy adapted in 1999 to only sell products produced under safe and fair working conditions....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 5:39pm PST
textWhen 'port security' targets workers-Who Are the "terrorists"-Rally March 7, 2006 Oakland by Transport Workers Solidarity Committee
On Tuesday March 7, 2006 there will be a protest at Oakland City Hall at 4:00 PM against the attack on longshore workers and anti-war protesters....
Posted: Sun, Mar 5, 2006 8:30pm PST
textWhen 'port security' targets workers by Transport Workers Solidarity Committee
Who Are The Terrorists:US Port "Security" Is Targeting Workers and Anti-War Protesters There will be a protest on Tuesday March 7 at 4:00 PM to protest the police terror attacks on April 7, 2003 in the Port of Oakland...
Posted: Sun, Mar 5, 2006 11:29am PST
textBusiness Unionism: An Anomaly In Action by Bill Pearson
Written by Bill Pearson Saturday, 04 March 2006 Several months ago in an email I received from a blogger friend, I was chastised for using the term biz unionism too often on a Website we both visited. His contention was the phrase was trite and overused. He claimed to simply apply a tag like this wasn't helpful to rebuilding or defining what was wrong with organized labor....
Posted: Sat, Mar 4, 2006 9:45pm PST
text3/7: SFLC/LP Fundraiser for LP in So. Carolina by via list
Tuesday, March 7 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. OPEIU Local 3 Social Hall 1050 South Van Ness Ave. (between 21st and 22nd Streets) San Francisco...
Posted: Sat, Mar 4, 2006 12:15pm PST
textUnions for flight attendants, pilots agree to huge concessions at Northwest Airlines by wsws (reposted)
The union representing 5,000 pilots at Northwest Airlines, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), reached a tentative agreement with the airline Friday morning, the day after a federal bankruptcy court postponed its ruling on the company’s request to throw out its labor agreement and impose lower wages and benefits on the pilots....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 10:41pm PST
textStriking Workers Injured In Bizzare Picket Line Incident by nbc11repost
Two bizarre incidents left two striking workers at Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley with minor injuries Thursday morning....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 12:06pm PST
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