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Memorial Service for Jay (Zalmo/Buck) BloomBecker (6/25)
Come join us in honoring Jay’s memory!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 12:19am PDT
Union Members Lose While The Loveall Leadership Gets Rich!
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
Capitalism--not People's Park--killed Cody's Books (Part 2)
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
Capitalism--not People's Park--killed Cody's Books (Part 1)
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
Support the Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc, a community center in San Jose
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
Union Wins Landslide Victory - Shattuck Cinema Workers Pull Through with Vote for The IWW
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
6/20 Injured Workers To Confront Insurance Crooks At California Fraud Assessment Comm
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
Protest Thu. 6/15: support SEIU Head Start Workers
Thursday Emergency Protest...
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 11:34pm PDT
Rally for IWW Shattuck Cinema Theater Workers in Berkeley
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
Demo Today in Oakland in Solidarity with Security Workers
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
UCSC Charged With Disadvantaging Students, Faculty and Workers of Color
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
Affirmative Diversity Talking Points
STUDENTS AND WORKERS RALLY TO DEMAND AFFIRMATIVE DIVERSITY!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:05pm PDT
LaborFest July 2006 Schedule/Calendar
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
Students and Workers Rally to Demand Affirmative Diversity
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 5, 2006...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 6:17pm PDT
IWW Fabric store workers make gains with new contract
By x345292 - Industrial Worker, June 2006...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 11:13am PDT
Albertsons Two - Tiered Structure
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
Proposition D, Laguna Honda zoning changes
SF Bay Guardian explanation of why it is opposing Proposition D...
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 12:30am PDT
Rally for IWW Shattuck Cinema Theater Workers in Berkeley
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
Shattuck Cinemas Employees To Vote on Forming a Union
By Judith Scherr - Berkeley Daily Planet, May 30, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 3:54am PDT
June 26 Single-Payer SF Labor Council Forum
Why SB 840,
the California Health
Insurance Reliability Act
is important to Labor...
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 10:18am PDT