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Update on the Fresh Organics / Real Foods Labor Dispute Following a formal complaint issued by the National Labor Relations Board, Fresh Organics will respond to unfair labor practices charges before an NLRB Administrative Law Judge....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 12:50am PST
Picket To Stop OneSource From Abusing Janitors 
The janitors have reported discrimination, harassment, and unsafe working conditions. OneSource has failed to address janitor's concerns and continues to pile impossible - and unsafe - amounts of work on janitors around the city, including the Transamerica Pyramid....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 10:08pm PST
“We want to make changes with a scalpel, not a chain saw.” The silent dissent in the labor movement must cease. The average member cannot be expected to speak out against the disastrous policies of the trade union leadership when so many seasoned activists refuse to challenge the status quo....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 7:51pm PST
Social Security and Modern Society Social security is not a mere burden but a benefit of productivity. Countries with comfortable social security systems are internationally very competi-tive. Social secuirty in a modern society does not lessen economic growth and employment but supports them....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 6:58am PST
The 1937 San Francisco Hotel Strike A good history of the 1937 Hotel Strikes and the rememberence of a fighting working class....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 2:15am PST
Building Bridges Radio: Representative John Conyers Building Bridges: Your Communiyt and Labor Report presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK....
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 2:06pm PST
Emergency Albertson's Action on Thursday 12/20 
We need your support by joining us for an Emergency Day of Action this Thursday between 4:00-5:00 PM at the Albertson’s store at 3250 Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland. UFCW grocery workers will deliver their message to Safeway and Albertson’s: “Don’t Take Away Our Health Care!"...
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 5:38pm PST
For Social Security, Stability or Volatility? The phony Social Security crisis...
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 4:36am PST
IWW Founding Convention Now On-line 
In honor of the 100th year of the IWW, the Marxist Internet Archive (MIA) has put together the papers of the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in a special section of the MIA....
Posted: Mon, Jan 17, 2005 3:16pm PST
1/18 SF March for Social Security Please add the January 18, 2005 march for Social Security at 11:30 a.m. in San Francisco's Financial District to your Martin Luther King week of demonstrations. We are going to give Bush the political lesson he needs: When you attack Social Security, you build a united front of opposition, and we shall win....
Posted: Sun, Jan 16, 2005 4:33pm PST
Wobblies are BACK IWW is back. Read this please, I really hope people will tell us what they think. It talks about all the stuff going on in the union....
Posted: Fri, Jan 14, 2005 2:26am PST
Here Come the Wobblies! In a labor battle with roots dating back 100 years, independent truckers and Starbucks employees are now joining the wild and contentious Wobblies....
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 10:37pm PST
Building Bridges Radio: Fighting Wal-Mart in N.Y.C & Quebec Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 7:09pm PST
News and Review article on the return of the IWW (Wobblies) The Sacramento News and Review weekly wrote a cover piece on the return of the IWW as a force within labour in the world. It does history a bit, but more into the realm of all the organizing that is being done at this moment, a must read. Photos are available if you go to the link on the site....
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 5:26pm PST
Dollar is Falling; Class Struggle Must Begin We are not even half way into the first month of this watershed year and the dollar is already falling, thanks to over $155 billion having been spent to steal Iraq's oil instead of solving social problems at home....
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 8:37pm PST
IWW UNION ORGANIZER FIRED Wild Oats Natural Markets fires union organizer over bag of bruised fruit!...
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 1:28pm PST
Blogger sacked for sounding off A bookseller has become the first blogger in Britain to be sacked from his job because he kept an online diary in which he occasionally mentioned bad days at work and satirised his "sandal-wearing" boss....
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 9:26am PST
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Living Wage Law Challenges Skates had refused to pay the living wage while the case was litigated, and instead chose to place the unpaid wages in an escrow account that must now be paid to the employees....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 5:28pm PST
Restaurant workers speak out on KPFA's morning show Tune into KPFA at 94.1 FM (or at www.kpfa.org) from 8:08-8:28am, Pacific time, Wednesday and Friday or listen to archives of the whole weeks worth of shows on KPFA's website....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 5:26pm PST
Let's depose the one-eyed king: It's time we reclaim labor's vision The SEIU and its New Unity Partnership allies have created a firestorm of controversy over their proposals for restructuring the labor movement. But these "reformers" have mistaken symptoms for causes, and their prescriptions will do nothing more than intensify business unionism's strangle-hold on organized labor. The alternative? Let's start talking about the organizing model that characterized labor's most successful period, and let's recognize that the foundation for an organizin...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 1:07pm PST
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