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textMemorial Service for Jay (Zalmo/Buck) BloomBecker (6/25) by Chai Priestess
Come join us in honoring Jay’s memory!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 12:19am PDT
textUnion Members Lose While The Loveall Leadership Gets Rich! by Grocery Worker
While union members of new UFCW Local 8 Golden State continue to be pledged with concessions ,store closures and job uncertainty the Loveall leadership continues to get rich off the backs of rank n file workers....
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 9:29pm PDT
textCapitalism--not People's Park--killed Cody's Books (Part 2) by Steve Ongerth
Bottom Line, Cody's is a casualty in the struggles between businesses in their will to power under the logic of capitalist market discipline, not People's Park or the downtrodden masses. To argue otherwise is to ignore reality. Based on deductive reasoning, its the only conclusion that best fits the facts....
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 4:31pm PDT
textCapitalism--not People's Park--killed Cody's Books (Part 1) by Steve Ongerth
Since the announcement that the original Cody's Books in Berkeley is going out of business, local pundits, politicians, capitalists, and scissorbills have created a shit-storm. As happens so many times when influential businesses close, the capitalist class and its enablers have predictably placed the blame for this tragedy upon the shoulders of the usual suspects: the homeless, young punks, holdovers from the 1960s counterculture, and the city of Berkeley itself. As usual, the real truth goe...
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 12:43pm PDT
textSupport the Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc, a community center in San Jose by Quetza
Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc is a community organizing center that focuses on the democratic rights of la Raza. Support the July 2, 2006 fundraiser for the Centro....
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 9:52pm PDT
textUnion Wins Landslide Victory - Shattuck Cinema Workers Pull Through with Vote for The IWW by xseasickx
This afternoon workers at Landmark Shattuck Cinemas voted an outstanding 22 to 2 in favor of unionization. Despite new promises by Landmark and an attempt by CEO Bill Banowsky to thwart the union attempt, workers at the Shattuck say they've never really been worried about the vote....
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 12:17am PDT
text6/20 Injured Workers To Confront Insurance Crooks At California Fraud Assessment Comm by California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day
On June 20, 2006 in Sacramento, injured workers will be picketing and protesting the insurance industry cover-up of criminal activity by insurance adjusters, lawyers and company doctors who are falsifying injured workers reports....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 5:51pm PDT
text Protest Thu. 6/15: support SEIU Head Start Workers by Monterey Bay Central Labor Council (repost)
Thursday Emergency Protest...
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 11:34pm PDT
imageRally for IWW Shattuck Cinema Theater Workers in Berkeley
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by Worker Freedom
The Shattuck Cinema Theater Workers will have their NLRB sponsored union election on Friday, June 16, 2006....
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 8:27am PDT
textDemo Today in Oakland in Solidarity with Security Workers by via list and JWJ
Noble Tower Apartments at 1515 Lakeside Drive, Downtown Oakland. Between 4:45 and 5pm, the action will move over to the Park Bellevue Towers at the Corner of Perkins and Bellevue. also, a meeting: Thursday, June 14, 7:00 pm CWA Local 9415 Union Hall...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 2:51pm PDT
imageUCSC Charged With Disadvantaging Students, Faculty and Workers of Color
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by ~Bradley
On June 6th, UC Santa Cruz students and workers held multiple rallies and confronted Chancellor Denice Denton to demand affirmative diversity on campus. Workers and students are charging UCSC with active institutional racism and sexism by sustaining hidden systematic policies and practices that have the effect of disadvantaging students, faculty and workers of color. Affirmative diversity means actively working against the status quo of institutional racism and sexism at UCSC. The Diversity C...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 1:43am PDT
textAffirmative Diversity Talking Points by Diversity Coalition
STUDENTS AND WORKERS RALLY TO DEMAND AFFIRMATIVE DIVERSITY!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:05pm PDT
imageLaborFest July 2006 Schedule/Calendar
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by Laborfest Organizing Committee
LaborFest is an annual cultural, arts music celebration to commemorate the 1934 San Francsico General Strike. This year it also commemorates the 120th anniversary of Haymarket, the 100th Anniversary of the rebuilding of San Francisco after the earthquake and the 60th anniversary of the Oakland general strike in 1946....
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 7:14pm PDT
textStudents and Workers Rally to Demand Affirmative Diversity by Diversity Coalition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 5, 2006...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 6:17pm PDT
imageIWW Fabric store workers make gains with new contract
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by Worker Freedom
By x345292 - Industrial Worker, June 2006...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 11:13am PDT
imageAlbertsons Two - Tiered Structure
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by Grocery Worker
As Albertsons workers in Northern Ca wait their fate to see if they will be among many of the rumored store closers there is one Alberston worker that is not just going to take it!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 9:24pm PDT
textProposition D, Laguna Honda zoning changes by SF Bay Guardian
SF Bay Guardian explanation of why it is opposing Proposition D...
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 12:30am PDT
imageRally for IWW Shattuck Cinema Theater Workers in Berkeley
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by Worker Freedom
The Shattuck Cinema Theater Workers will have their NLRB sponsored union election on Friday, June 16, 2006....
Posted: Fri, Jun 2, 2006 3:11am PDT
imageShattuck Cinemas Employees To Vote on Forming a Union
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by Worker Freedom
By Judith Scherr - Berkeley Daily Planet, May 30, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 3:54am PDT
textJune 26 Single-Payer SF Labor Council Forum by via list
Why SB 840, the California Health Insurance Reliability Act is important to Labor...
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 10:18am PDT
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