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Train in Vain? Continuing critique of recent actions around SF's MUNI
An installment in a longer piece......
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 1:38pm PST
12/5 SF Hearing On Agressive Union-Busting Tactics In N. CA
A SF city government hearing will be held on Monday December 5, 2005 at 3:00 PM at SF City
Hall on the use of union-busting tactics by N. California employers to prevent workers from
organizing, striking or having labor rights on the job....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 11:52am PST
Ford to close five North American plants, cut 7,500 jobs
Ford Motor Company plans to close at least five plants and eliminate 7,500 jobs, or 6 percent of its total North American work force, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal Friday. The job-slashing by Ford follows last month’s announcement by General Motors that it would eliminate 30,000 jobs and shutter 12 facilities in the US and Canada before the end of 2008....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 9:04am PST
Train in Vain? Part 3: A Critique of our efforts in Muni Social Strike
The third installment of a work in progress about the strengths and weaknesses of an effort to fight austerity measures on San Francisco's MUNI with an Italian-style "self-reduction" campaign...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 2:28pm PST
New Events for Week of Dec 10
Please join with California unions and unions across the country
to celebrate International Human Rights Day by declaring your
support for our fundamental freedom to form unions....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 1:50pm PST
12/5 in Oakland: Come help "Move the Movement" for Transportation Justice
December 5th, 2005, 4:00-5:30pm Frank Ogawa Plaza (in front of City Hall) Broadway & 14th Street, Oakland...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 1:47pm PST
NYU Grad Student Strike: A Debate On the Rights of Students to Unionize
The New York University graduate student strike has entered its 24th day. On November 9th, some of the school's graduate student teaching and research assistants went on strike in an effort to force the school to recognize the graduate student union. We host a debate between Michael Palm, chair of the student union, and Paul Boghossian, professor of philosophy who is representing the administration....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 7:12am PST
Merck announces 7,000 layoffs—continued attack on jobs and wages in US
The pharmaceutical company Merck announced on November 28 that it would lay off 7,000 workers over the next three years, closing down 5 of its 31 production plants. The cuts, half of which will be in the US, represent more than 10 percent of the company’s global workforce. The move is only the latest in a series of announcements of layoffs and wage cutting at major American companies....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 10:30pm PST
Delphi's Demands Provoke Autoworker Resistance
After years of creeping concessions, United Auto Workers (UAW) rank and filers received an offer they had to refuse. When Delphi proposed to cut workers' wages by two-thirds on October 8, the anger and anxiety wasn't limited to those working in the struggling auto parts company's plants-it spread to concerned workers across the auto industry....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 5:43pm PST
Today at 2:15: Officials to Hold Press Conference re: Stanford Hospital Not Bargaining
Elected Officials Will Hold Press Conference on December 1st in front of
Stanford Hospital Showing Opposition to Stanford Hospital's Refusal to
Return to Bargaining Table...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 12:38pm PST
Oakland: Ex-Employees Still Getting Paid By Mistake
You apparently don't need to be one of the 7,000 employees of the Oakland Unified School District to get one of its paychecks. Ex-employees have been getting paid by mistake. Officials are fixing the problem, but it means legitimate employees face an extra hassle....
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 11:24pm PST
WHERE'S THE SOLIDARITY? Labor, Democrats Betray Females on Repro Rights
The fallout from labor’s refusal to oppose Prop. 73 (the “parental notification” initiative on CA’s recent “special election” ballot) will have an impact nationally and globally because it represents a prime example of labor’s refusal to “walk the walk”—not just “talk the talk”—on gender equity issues. Although women—especially the predominantly female CA Nurses Association—are credited for being the initial and sustaining force behind defeating Schwarzenegger’s anti-worker ballot initiatives...
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 8:55am PST
San Francisco Real Food Workers to be Rehired
The union, not identified in this article, was the IWW. Details on this campaugn are available here: http://www.iww.org/unions/iu660/realfood/...
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 5:38am PST
We leaflet grinch of all seasons —WalMart
We leaflet grinch of all seasons —WalMart. 1 minute video...
Posted: Sun, Nov 27, 2005 4:13pm PST
Massive Labor Board Complaint Implicates Top Managers at Starbucks
1) Massive Labor Board Complaint Implicates Top Managers
2) Starbucks workers go public at third NYC store...
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2005 10:06pm PST
11/30: Contra Costa’s healthcare workers request solidarity in the struggle for healthcare
Wednesday, November 30 at 12 Noon
Informational Picket
Mt. Diablo Medical Center, 2540 East Street, Concord...
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2005 1:57pm PST
Train in Vain? Part Two: Critical analysis of the recent efforts on SF's MUNI
Part two of a five-part article about the recent attempts to foment an Italian-style "self-reduction" campaign on SF's MUNI transit system....
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2005 1:37pm PST
GM job cuts will devastate North American cities
General Motors’ plan to eliminate 30,000 hourly jobs by 2008, announced Monday in Detroit, will have devastating consequences for cities in the United States and Canada, and its ripple effects will hit working class communities throughout the two countries. The closure of twelve facilities will reduce the auto maker’s manufacturing jobs in North America by nearly a third....
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 9:20pm PST
11/25 SF Labor TV On Labor, Zionism & Palestinians
Labor On The Job interviews Israeli university lecturer Ilan Pappe about his struggle
for equal rights in Israel and the boycott of Bar-Ilan and Haifa by the UK Association
of University Teachers for the harassment of him and his student....
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 7:04pm PST