Publish to Newswire
Add an EventNewsitem List
591 of 743 
What is the Naked Truth? 
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
When 'port security' targets workers-Who Are the "terrorists"-Rally March 7, 2006 Oakland 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
When 'port security' targets workers 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
Business Unionism: An Anomaly In Action 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
3/7: SFLC/LP Fundraiser for LP in So. Carolina 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
Unions for flight attendants, pilots agree to huge concessions at Northwest Airlines 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
Striking Workers Injured In Bizzare Picket Line Incident 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
LOJ Show On The Attack On SF Public Workers & Civil Service (audio/mpeg 15.5MB) The show of Labor On The Job focuses on the struggle to defend civil service in San Francisco
and the plans by Mayor Newsom and his Human Resources Director Phil Ginzberg to replace
civil service with cronyism and eliminate anychecks and balances on who is hired. It also
exposes the growing privatization in the city and how private contractors are colluding to
help eliminate civil service....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 10:28am PST
Photos Of3/1/06 Picketers At SF Maritime Rally Against Union Busting By Federal Government These are photos of a March 1, 2006 labor maritime demonstration against union busting by the federal
government and the bay area unionized Ferry Boat workers....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 9:35am PST
Help Workers Left Jobless by Katrina Disaster jobless benefits for 140,000 workers left unemployed by Katrina are about to run out. You can help those families today by telling your U.S. representative to pass the Katrina Emergency Assistance Act, which will extend those benefits for 13 weeks....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 10:01pm PST
3/6: Join LABOR COUNCIL SUPPORT PICKET @ Castro Valley EDEN MEDICAL CENTER PUT PATIENTS FIRST RALLY, 8am-9am Monday, March 6 Eden Medical Center 20103 Lake Chabot Blvd, just off Castro Valley Blvd Castro Valley...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:55pm PST
Help us to finish the film about Zanon's workers. 
This film narrates the whole story about the fight of Zanon's workers. Now is in postproduction. Help us to finish the film. Visit our website where is all the information.
The address is www.filmraymundo.com.ar/default.htm...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 8:40pm PST
Loot the Rich: Economic Civil Disobedience I don't -- by any stretch of the imagination -- agree with every point that John Asimakopoulos makes here. But he is addressing the central problem of life in this society -- the lack of large-scale working class resistance to capitalist exploitation, and some features of what this resistance might consist of......
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 3:46pm PST
Sweat-Free Campus Campaign Heats Up (audio/mpeg 4.0MB) United Students Against Sweatshops have been organizing on college campuses around the US, to pressure school officials into adopting policies that strengthen the rights of garment workers who produce university apparel. A clothing optional rally drew about three dozen students to the base of UC Santa Cruz on March 1. Vinny Lombardo has more....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 2:19pm PST
Santa Cruz Students Strip for Sweat-Free UC 
On Wed, March 1, students at UC Santa Cruz engaged in a creative "clothing-optional" protest against collegiate apparel produced by sweatshop labor. The protest was also against alleged comments by UCSC Chancellor Denice Denton that 'no one cares about sweatshops.' The students, associated with United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) and the Student and Worker Coalition for Justice (SWCJ), are part of a national campaign to urge colleges to sign on to a designated suppliers progra...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 12:52am PST
AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting marks further disintegration of US labor federation The Executive Council of the AFL-CIO labor federation is holding its annual winter meeting this week in San Diego. The trade union officials assembled at a luxury Pacific Coast resort have overseen yet another disastrous year for unionized workers, as well as a further decline in their own organization....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 10:17pm PST
Mass Picket Berkeley Honda - March 4 
Solidarity with Berkeley Honda Workers!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 9:45pm PST
UC Students Get Naked For Justice (3/1) In symbolic protest against the use of sweatshops to make Univeristy of California collegiate apparel, students at 6 UCs including UC Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Davis, and Riverside will be getting naked (or in their underwear) in front of their bookstores where collegiate apparel is sold on Wed, March 1st. UCSC's protest begins at 12:30pm and will take place at the base of the UCSC campus....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 11:35am PST
8 days of Anarchy The week of the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair ......
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 9:41am PST
Spenger’s Employees Claim Discrimination Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto in Berkeley on fourth street is still using Jim Crow statutes to degrade its African-American(black) employees as second class citizens and workers. Where is the anti-racist action to shut down this Old Jim Crow shithouse!!!!!!!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 10:02pm PST
591 of 743