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Building Bridges Radio - UNPRECENDENTED: THE FLORIDA ELECTION DEBACLE Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 27 minute Radio Program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON LA INDYMEDIA AUDIO LINK....
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 1:38pm PDT
9/1 in NYC: 5,000 person unemployment line! Don’t let the Convention be the only statement New York City makes that week: stand up and be heard!
On Wednesday, September 1, THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE, a symbolic unemployment line representing the 1.2 million jobs lost overall since March 2001 and the more than eight million Americans who are currently unemployed, will wind through New York City. More than 5,000 citizens, each holding a pink slip, will form a line stretching from the corner of Broadway and Wall St., up to 31st St. and then w...
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 12:32am PDT
Massive pay cuts, longer hours loom for 6 million workers as Bush guts overtime Next time you go to Burger King, you may find that the cashier ringing up your order has been promoted to an executive. But just like the BK crown doesn’t make you a king, the cashier’s new title doesn’t get her CEO pay. In fact, the new job title will result in lower pay and longer hours....
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 11:05pm PDT
Photos: NYC - Starbucks labor Rally 
Amidst heavy police presence 5-600 people rallied outside the Starbucks on 36th & Madison in Manhatten. Two of the main organizers of the rally were areested....
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 3:16pm PDT
New Overtime Laws Devastating to Middle- and Lower-Income Americans "Today, over 6 million working Americans will begin to feel the effects of the Bush administration's latest American holiday—'Wal-Mart Appreciation Day,'" said NOW President Kim Gandy, who joined Senators Tom Harkin and Arlen Specter, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, and hundreds of union employees in a joint press conference this afternoon outside of the Department of Labor....
Posted: Fri, Aug 27, 2004 10:45pm PDT
Million Worker March Event & Other Great Activist Events This great list of community events is from Faye Kennedy, Sacramento Area Black Caucus. I hope to see you at some of them - put them on your calendar!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 26, 2004 9:02pm PDT
S. KOREA, "Summer Struggle"... ...a great experience of unity and solidarity...
Posted: Mon, Aug 23, 2004 10:11pm PDT
Petition to Save Overtime Pay When was the last time the government cut your paycheck? That’s what’s going to
happen to millions of workers because of President Bush’s overtime pay take-away.
Starting today, employers can reclassify some 6 million workers as ineligible for
overtime pay....
Posted: Mon, Aug 23, 2004 8:48pm PDT
Building Bridges Radio - 1.Paul Krugman 2. Flood Devastates Bangladesh Building Bridges Radio presents this 29 minutes Radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Sun, Aug 22, 2004 4:03pm PDT
Craig Rosebraugh, ALF spokesman, tried to bust union Craig Rosebraugh is the former spokesman for ALF and ELF. He owns a vegan restaurant chain, with one main restaurant on SE Hawthorne Portland which has high-middle prices and is typically filled. He fired several striking workers and this has brought his ethics under question....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 8:56am PDT
Wild Oats goes bananas over union organizer The Wild Oats natural food chain claims to be progressive, enlightened, worker- and environment-friendly. The truth is, Wild Oats is anti-union....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 1:46am PDT
Building Bridges Radio-Outrageous Immigration Raids, Far from the U.S. Border Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Reports presents this 27.5 min radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS LINK BELOW...
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2004 2:52pm PDT
Union gains ‘moral victory' over Wal-Mart The certification of a union at a Wal-Mart in Quebec is a “tremendous moral victory” for other mobilization efforts among the chain's employees across Canada, a labour lawyer says....
Posted: Wed, Aug 4, 2004 1:04pm PDT
Building Bridges Radio -Trillin Rhymes Bush and the AFL-CIO Must Change Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 29 minute radio show. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2004 7:05am PDT
Bush Administration Intervenes for Starbucks Against Union 
In a stunning reversal, the Bush Administration dominated NLRB rules against Starbucks workers trying to organize with the IWW. This ruling could affect all union attempts to organize corporate chains....
Posted: Sun, Aug 1, 2004 4:06pm PDT
Guarding the Right to Leisure Workers in Western Europe, who enjoy "the shortest workweeks and longest vacations in the world," confront downward pressures on free time exercised by longer hours in the USA and cheaper labor in former socialist nations....
Posted: Sun, Aug 1, 2004 9:57am PDT
Bush Administration Intervenes for Starbucks Against Union In a stunning reversal, the Bush Administration dominated NLRB rules against Starbucks workers trying to organize with the IWW. This ruling could affect all union attempts to organize corporate chains....
Posted: Sat, Jul 31, 2004 9:07am PDT
S. Korea, The Different Levels of Migrant Workers Struggle Anti-war, stop crackdown - let's fight for a better world!...
Posted: Tue, Jul 27, 2004 1:17am PDT
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