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Job protests grip French cities Hundreds of thousands of people have marched through French towns and cities in protest at a new law making it easier to hire and fire young workers....
Posted: Sat, Mar 18, 2006 7:52pm PST
Santa Cruz County Workers Strike Cripples Services for a Day (audio/mpeg 4.1MB) Eighteen-hundred Santa Cruz county employees represented by SEIU Local 415, staged a one day strike March 14, crippling road maintenance, payroll processing, social work, and many other services. Vinny Lombardo reports....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 9:22pm PST
Germany: 22,000 hospital physicians to strike On Thursday morning, March 16, thousands of physicians—members of the Marburger Bund trade union—stopped work for a day at 10 different locations throughout Germany. University clinics in Freiburg, Heidelberg, Munich, Würzburg, Bonn, Essen, Halle and Mainz were hit by the strike and a central demonstration was held in Mainz....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 8:15pm PST
France: Political issues in the fight against the government’s “First Job Contract” 
The following statement will be distributed at mass demonstrations being held Saturday, March 18, in Paris and other cities across France. It is also posted as a PDF file. We urge readers and supporters of the WSWS to download the leaflet and distribute it at the demonstrations as well as at schools, universities and work locations....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 8:11pm PST
UCSC Sweat Free Coalition present Chancellor with ‘sweat free’ cake On Thursday, March 16, about a dozen members of the UCSC Sweat Free
Coalition presented Chancellor Denton with a ‘sweat free, sugar free’
cake after putting on “The Naked Truth Fashion Show” in front of the
Bay Tree Bookstore....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 7:30pm PST
Janitors Strike at the University of Miami to Gain Living Wage and Health Benefits Nearly 200 janitors working for the UNICCO Service Company are on strike at the University of Miami. The non-unionized janitors - who are mostly Haitian and Cuban immigrants -- earn as little as $6.40 an hour and are not provided with health insurance. We speak with one of the janitors and host a debate between a UNICCO spokesperson and a director at the Service Employees International Union....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 7:36am PST
Virtual Sit-In in Solidarity with the Striking Students of France! 
We invite people from all over the world who support the french students
in resistance and oppose the precaritization of life
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarity] to join the Electronic
Disturbance Theatre and borderlands Hacklab on March 16th and 17th, 2006
to engage in a virtual sit-in on french government websites to demand
that all of the students be released from prison and that the 'contrat
première embauche' (CPE) be revoked.
Join the action here: http://sdhacklab.org/fran...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 1:48pm PST
SEIU 415 Workers Strike and Rally at the Santa Cruz County Building 
On March 14th, 1,800 Santa Cruz County workers launched a one-day strike against the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors which they say, "so far refuses to provide wages comparable to that of comparable workers in comparable counties."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 1:39am PST
Why I Didn't Strike On March 14th 2006 On March 14th I decided to do something I had never done and never expected to do. I walked through strike lines and worked while all my co-workers spend the entire day, sometimes in heavy rain, fighting fo a better contract. But, I had to disagree with my union....
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 10:09am PST
SEIU Strike Rally Shakes SC County Building 
After 6 months of working without a contract and County administrators' attack on workers' salaries and health care, the 1,800-strong SEIU 415 went on strike on March 14. Pickets were set up all across the county - from Santa Cruz to Watsonville - yet the highlight of the day was a mid-afternoon rally at the County Building where, after reportedly marching through 5 stories of the building, hundreds of workers danced in the streets to old school hits and more by SEIU's own DJ. With solidarity...
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 3:23am PST
Santa Cruz County Workers’ Strike: A Success From http://www.seiu415.org/chapters/county/contract/StrikeSuccess.htm...
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 2:31am PST
Help Workers at Giumarra Vineyards get a Fair Election 
Please sign the petition telling Giumarra to let their workers vote in a free and fair election, without threats or intimidation. Workers plan to turn the petitions in on Friday. As this year’s grape harvest is gearing up, it is very important to show Giumarra the vast support the workers are receiving.
http://www.ufwaction.org/campaign/giumarrapetition1...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 11:32pm PST
The Oakland General Strike Of 1946: A KPFA Radio Show (audio/mpeg 26.0MB) This radio show from the Pacifica Radio Archives was on the Oakland General Strike of 1946 and
was broadcast on 11/29/76 on the 30th anniversary of the strike.
56.50 min 26 MB...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 10:36am PST
STRIKE Support!!! Tue. 3/14 Join SEIU 415 picket lines 
The strike is on!
Your action is requested to support 1,800 Santa Cruz County workers who are striking on Tuesday, 14 March.
Please forward this message to co-workers and progressive email lists so we can spread the word about this ONE DAY action....
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 8:46pm PST
County Workers Appeal for Equal Treatment This week, Santa Cruz county workers will strike for 1 day. There will likely be a longer strike after March 27th if the Board of Supervisors does not show more leadership.
We are the 1,800 people who work to serve the health, safety and quality of life of this community. We are public health nurses, road maintenance workers, social workers, computer operators, secretaries, child support workers, lifeguards and much more.
The last thing we want is to be out on strike rather than servin...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 8:28pm PST
Audio Of Historian Michael Kazin On Labor and the 1906 Quake (audio/mpeg 28.6MB) This audio presentation is by labor historian Michael Kazn about the San Francisco labor
movement during the period of the 1906 earthquake. Kazin's book
"Barons Of Labor, The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era
is an important contribution on the history of working people in San Francisco.
28.6MB 1.02 minutes...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 2:18pm PST
San Francisco’s Hypocritical Multiculturalism A week in New York City has left me even more convinced of San Francisco’s glaring hypocrisy toward its Latino and African-American residents. Although San Francisco prides itself on being a multicultural city, a place whose busses carry people of diverse nationalities and ethnicities, when it comes to employment in the city’s hip restaurants, blacks or Latinos are either missing or in the kitchen. These groups are also absent from the well-paying jobs in San Francisco’s popular small busines...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 7:05am PST
San Francisco M0BILIZATIONS to raise Minimum Wage start Saturday This is an important initiative for the low wage workers of California, who fall further behind as the cost of daily living continues to increase....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 6:55pm PST
SEIU 415 emergency strike solidarity alert - action requested Your action is requested to support 1,800 Santa Cruz County workers preparing to strike this week. Please forward this message to co-workers and progressive email lists. In addition to the action requested below, please contact your local union leadership to ask them to take action as well....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 6:39pm PST
UC Sweat-Free Coalition Crashes UCOP 
Students from UCSD, UCR, UCSB, UCSC, UCB and UCD crashed UCOP to meet President Dynes in person and demand an end to the use of sweatshops to produce UC apparel and uniforms. Students occupied the president's hallways for one hour. We were promised a meeting with Dynes and then later chose to leave the building once we were satisfied....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 11:35am PST
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