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Video Of SF Hotel Workers Rising Rally 2/15/2006 (video/quicktime 37.1MB) This was a kickoff rally for over 60,000 hotel workers whose contracts have
expired or are about to expire this summer. If agreements are not reached
there maybe the first national hotel workers strike.
26:30min, 37.1 MB...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 4:10pm PST
3/9 Oakland Labor Solidarity Rally & Action For Locked Out Meredosia Boilermakers On Thursday March 9, 2006, there will be a picket in solidarity with locked out Illinois Meredosia
Boilermakers in Berkeley. Also there will be a solidarity rally and video showing in Oakland with
Meredoisa workers and other fired workers.
There will be a regional tour of Merediosia locked out workers in Northern California and this
is part of their solidarity tour....
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 7:47am PST
Randy Ward's Agenda of Charterizing, Privatizing & Impoverishing Oakland Schools 
With a looming strike by teachers in the Oakland Schools, more background on Randy Ward and his roots in the Broad Foundation is necessary. Broad’s goals are to reduce overall funding for public education while using his foundation’s grants to promote high stakes standardized testing and widespread charterization....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 6:12pm PST
Oakland Walmart - 2/22 Media Action 
WHERE: OAKLAND WALMART 8400 EDGEWATER DRIVE
WHEN: 1:00PM, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22...
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 10:20pm PST
Will Levi Strauss Oppose Union-Busting in Mexico? (video/quicktime 24.3MB) "In 1991, we became the first worldwide company to establish a comprehensive ethical code of conduct for manufacturing and finishing contractors working with the company." --Levi Strauss & Co....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 4:28pm PST
How an Oakland Teacher's strike can be won A suggestion for an obvious, easy and effective step in the event of an Oakland school walk-out......
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 4:26pm PST
Hotel Worker Rising event in San Francisco 
Hotel Workers Rising event in San Francisco, Feb. 15, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 7:45am PST
2/21: Press Conference & Rally At Oakland City Hall On April 7, 03 Attack On Anti-War Protes There will be a press conference and rally at 4:30 PM on Feb 21 at Oakland City Hall to protest the role of the police, the global shipping
companies and the US government on the attack made on April 7, 2003 against peaceful pickets and
longshormen....
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 2:37pm PST
2/15: Join the Hotel Workers Rising Campaign Hotel workers are uniting across North America to launch a new campaign to raise awareness and build support as they seek to improve their jobs and secure better lives for themselves and their families....
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 11:36pm PST
Oakland teachers: Strike Vote as Soon as 2/12, Come Help This Saturday!! To support Oakland's educators... this Saturday and every Saturday is
"supermarket Saturday" where union members and allies will go out to most
major supermarkets in Oakland all day and pass out information about our
contract....
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 12:50pm PST
Oakland Settles Police Attacks in Port a vote was finally taken on the proposed settlement stemming from the police attack on anti-war demonstrators and longshore workers in the port on April 7, 2003...
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 11:36pm PST
INEZ! (video/quicktime 15.4MB) Paga lo que debe, Escobar!
Three-minute QuickTime movie. 15MB....
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 8:05pm PST
SUPPORT LABOR COUNCIL ACTIONS 
Continue the broad support for Berkeley Honda machinists!!
VALENTINE'S DAY ACTION @ COMCAST-OAKLAND!!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 9:29pm PST
2/9 Oakland Speak-Out For Injured Workers At CA State Hearings On Thursday Feb 9 at the Oakland State Building at 9:30 AM injured workers will speak-out about
the attack on them as a result of the deregulation of workers' comp. Tens of thousands of
workers have been unable to receive medical care for their injuries and some have committed
suicide as well as losing their homes and families....
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 11:18am PST
UFCW 588: Elections and Turmoil Activist and retired UFCW President, Bill Pearson, lays out some of the daunting challenges facing UFCW members as they attempt to take back control of Local 588 and their future....
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 8:29am PST
March2006 BA Screenings Of "Venezuela From Below" In March 2006 there will be the screenings of "Venezuela From Below" and a disucussion about the
current situation in Venezuela....
Posted: Sun, Feb 5, 2006 8:30am PST
Activists Converge to Support Hotel Worker Uprising A diverse crowd of over 100 community leaders, labor officials, and politicians crowded the historic SEIU hall yesterday to learn of plans for a soon to be launched “uprising” by UNITE HERE Local 2. Local 2’s battle for a new contract began in 2004 and is now part of a national campaign with hotel unions in New York, Chicago, Hawaii, Toronto, Monterey, Los Angeles and Boston. Union members joined President Mike Casey in highlighting the campaign’s high stakes, arguing that improving wages and...
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 7:35am PST
2/2 and 2/4: Berkeley Honda Rallies with Special Guests When: Th., 2/2 4:30-6:00 SEIU 790 (ongoing Thursday sponsors)
Sat., 2/4 1-2:30 UC Berkeley Labor Coalition
Where: Parker & Shattuck...
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 12:42am PST
Oakland Schools to Continue Hiring Scabs 
The Oakland Unified School District ended it's scab hiring at the Airport Hilton, but has resumed it at district offices at 314 E. 10th Street in Huerta Hall. These will continue through Saturday, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. All are encouraged to go there to let the educational bureaucrats know what the Bay Area working class thinks about hiring scabs in our community....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 12:04am PST
Corruption Scandal Exposes Racism and Discrimination Against SF City Workers (video/quicktime 26.6MB) This LaborLine program is about the corruption scandal in the City of San Francisco and the
discrimination and retaliation against workers who speak out about the inequality and injustice
within the City.
19 minutes 26.6 MB...
Posted: Tue, Jan 31, 2006 1:53pm PST
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