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Video from the 2006 LaborTech Conference held at USF November 17-19.
Topics include: The Corporate Media Assault and Devising a Labor Media Stategy, Radio and Labor Media, Globilization for Workers Using Communication Technology, much more
Conference video is now being uploaded. New programs will be available on a continual basis now and through December....
Posted: Wed, Nov 29, 2006 8:08am PST
Israel's largest trade union began a sweeping general strike today, shutting down the country's only international airport and all the ports....
Posted: Wed, Nov 29, 2006 7:19am PST
Tens of thousands of workers throughout Australia will attend rallies on November 30 in opposition to the Howard government’s WorkChoices industrial relations laws. Already this regressive legislation, which strips workers of basic rights, is having a pernicious impact on jobs, pay and conditions in workplace after workplace....
Posted: Wed, Nov 29, 2006 7:18am PST
Room 11 of the Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St., Sacramento...
Event Date: Tue, Dec 5, 2006 7:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Nov 29, 2006 6:06am PST
$10 in advance, $25 at the door, at Oakland Rotunda Building, 300 Frank Ogawa Plaza, opposite City Hall, 5:30 to 7:30pm...
Posted: Tue, Nov 28, 2006 10:12pm PST
The Industrial Workers Of The World: Its First One Hundred Years 1905-2005 now available!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 28, 2006 8:24am PST
Mass Picket Line and Port Shutdown! Support IBU/MM&P Ferry Workers!
Saturday December 09
10:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Pier 31 1/2 on the Embarcadero San Francisco...
Posted: Mon, Nov 27, 2006 12:51pm PST
Pier 31 1/2 on the Embarcadero San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Dec 9, 2006 10:00am PST
Posted: Mon, Nov 27, 2006 12:43pm PST
A strike by a group of Bay Area American Red Cross nurses set to begin Monday will partially close two of the East Bay's four blood centers, but will not hamper the supply of blood to area hospitals, a Red Cross spokeswoman said today....
Posted: Sun, Nov 26, 2006 11:13pm PST
Last week’s ruling by the Australian High Court to uphold the Howard government’s WorkChoices industrial relations laws has cleared the way for an escalating attack on workers’ jobs, wages, working conditions and basic rights. By a 5-2 majority, the country’s supreme court dismissed a challenge to the constitutional validity of the laws mounted by several state Labor governments and trade union bodies....
Posted: Sun, Nov 26, 2006 7:56pm PST
In the worst mining disaster in modern Polish history, 23 miners lost their lives at Halemba, a colliery in the town of Ruda Slaska in the southern industrial province of Silesia....
Posted: Sun, Nov 26, 2006 7:54pm PST
Set up defense committees independently of the works council and trade unions!...
Posted: Sun, Nov 26, 2006 7:52pm PST
IUOE Local 39 stationary engineers are on strike at Macy's West in Northern California. They held a picket on the day after Thanksgiving at the Macy's flagship store in San Francisco's Union Square.
For More Information on this strike go to www.local39.org...
Posted: Sat, Nov 25, 2006 9:28pm PST
Pier 33 San Francisco...
Event Date: Sun, Nov 26, 2006 10:00am PST
Posted: Fri, Nov 24, 2006 11:56pm PST
For empty promises and cheap electioneering, the Labor Party’s ploy on public education in the Victorian state election campaign plumbs new depths....
Posted: Fri, Nov 24, 2006 5:14am PST
Four young assassins shot dead another militant labor leader in the Calabarzon area past eight this morning. Killed on the spot was Andrew “Bok” Iñoza, union president, for 11 years now, of Alaska Milk in San Pedro Laguna....
Posted: Thu, Nov 23, 2006 9:48pm PST
We cannot allow these continual attacks on labor to continue if we are to survive. We must teach everyone that
picketlines mean don't cross!...
Posted: Thu, Nov 23, 2006 12:41pm PST
Pier 33...
Event Date: Fri, Nov 24, 2006 8:30am PST
Posted: Thu, Nov 23, 2006 12:35pm PST
Join Labor Picket Line for Op.Engineers No. 39 at Macy's Union Square and the 51 other Macy's in Northern California & Reno. Macy's Union Square should be the biggest picketline; other stores also have pickets....
Event Date: Fri, Nov 24, 2006 12:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Nov 22, 2006 5:31pm PST
Right now, Local 39 facilities engineers are walking the picket line in
Union Square and many other stores in Northern California. They are on
strike following an insulting round of negotiations with Macy's and their
parent company, Federated Department Stores Inc....
Posted: Wed, Nov 22, 2006 3:29pm PST