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February 2005 Jobs with Justice Update - DC Hotel Workers Win New Contract!
- National Student Labor Week of Action March 31- April 4, 2005
- JwJ Joins Delegation to the 2005 World Social Forum
- Janitors win Justice at Providence College!
- Jobs with Justice Tour with Indian Allies a Success!
- NE JwJ Coalitions Take on Verizon Wireless
- Victory at Intelicoat!!!
- Central OR JwJ Organizes Panel and Discussion on Immigrant
Rights
- Atlanta JwJ WRB Holds Hearing on Public Transit
- JwJ Celebrates International H...
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 12:05pm PST
2/11Mass Picket Against Oakland Wal-mart Wal-mart with the support of Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown and Oakland Council President Ignacio De La Fuente is opening a massive scab store in Oakand at Hegenberger Rd. & 880. There will be a mass picket this coming Friday from 6:00 AM to 12:00 noon....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 8:26am PST
Jobs and wages picture remains bleak for millions in US The employment and general economic situation remained dismal for millions of American workers in January, amid signs that the so-called recovery may be slowing. While the official unemployment rate declined to 5.2 percent, payrolls increased by only 146,000, considerably less than predicted. Manufacturing jobs fell by 25,000. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report, released February 4, also revised downward the number of jobs created in December, from 157,000 to 133,000....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 6:31am PST
2/19SF Screening "The Gas Is Not For Sale" A premier screening of "The Gas Is Not For Sale" by the Bolivian labor videography group Tecer Mundo will be screened in a benefit for the Latin American Working Class Film and Video Festival in El Alto, Bolivia this coming October. There will also be presentations on labor media....
Posted: Sun, Feb 6, 2005 8:07am PST
AN OPEN LETTER TO AMFA WORKERS 
The bankruptcy judge has unjustly sided with United Airlines against the Airline Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) membership and imposed a temporary 10 percent cut in pay and benefits on the mechanics that will extend into May....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 5:05pm PST
Building Bridges Radio - Social Insecurity plus The Next Pres. of Chile? Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 28 min radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS LINK BELOW...
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 8:26am PST
Health in Neoliberalism A cost explosion has not occurred in legal health insurance in Germany. If there is a financial problem, it is the problem of inadequate revenues.. Mass unemployment is the central cause for the rising health premiums....
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 7:00am PST
New RN TV Ad Hits Gov. Schwarzenegger’s Attack on Nurses as ‘Special Interest’ Prominent Hollywood Director, Producers Volunteered to Create Ad - Ad to run on broadcast of dramatization of Schwarzenegger’s life
Press Release from California Nurses Association followed by article in today's SF Chronicle....
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 6:39am PST
Californians vow fight vs. pension privatization Labor, retiree and community organizations in California are kicking off a campaign to uphold Social Security against the drive of President Bush and Wall Street to privatize the 70-year-old program serving retirees, the disabled, and families of deceased workers. At the same time, they are gearing up to defeat Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s campaign to privatize the pensions of California state employees....
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 12:19am PST
UC Workers Ask for State Mediator Update on Bargaining for Service sector of AFSCME local 3299 members in the University of California system.
Note: The union already settled the Patient Care part of the contract, dividing the union in 2 as far as bargaining with UC goes....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 6:32pm PST
Chavez: Capitalism must be transcended Hands Off Venezuela Campaign...
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 4:40pm PST
AMFA Fights United Airlines on Concessions The Union that Said NO to United Airlines....
Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2005 8:27pm PST
SF Labor Forum On Crisis In AFL-CIO, Future Of Labor & How To Win Victories A Labor Action Bay Area Forum will be held on Feb 12, 2005 at 2:00 PM on The Crisis in The AFL-CIO, The Future Of Labor &
How To Win Some Victories. It will be held at the Women's Building at 3543 18th St. in San Francisco...
Posted: Sun, Jan 30, 2005 8:48pm PST
2/4Free Premier Screening Of "Almost Broken" & March There will be a free premier showing of the film "Almost Broken" about a worker who is nearly destroyed by the corruption in the Workers' Comp system. There will also be a rally for injured and disabled workers....
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 2:44pm PST
SF CWA To Protest SBC Outsourcing CWA 9410 will be picketing SBC on Feb 1,2&3rd to protest the outsourcing of jobs in San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 2:32pm PST
2/4 Picket Of Oakland Wal-Mart On Feb 4, 2005 BAC Local #3 and Hod Carriers Local 166 along with the Alameda Building Trades will picket the construction of the Oakland Walmart from 6:00 AM to 12:00 noon....
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 2:28pm PST
Alan Benjamin To Speak on Directions for Labor & Working Class If you are interesting in hearing about and discussing “Directions for Labor and the Working Class in the 21st Century on," come to this outstanding event on Feb. 10!...
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 11:26am PST
Emily Tang Fired by the Metropolitan Hotel To-day, Metropolitan Hotel Workers Committee member, Emily Tang, was fired by the Metropolitan Hotel. She had been suspended for weeks for violating a shameless policy that bans workers from making public statements about the Hotel deemed negative by management....
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 4:50pm PST
AMFA Members Reject Contract Finally! Some workers willing to say no to cutbacks the partnership policies of the trade union officials!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 12:03pm PST
When Cops Are More Unionized Than Almost All Other Workers. . . . What would send all the dead trade unionists spinning in their graves? The fact that cops are more unionized than almost all other groups of workers in the United States today....
Posted: Thu, Jan 27, 2005 7:48pm PST
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