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Chronicle Seeks to Undermine Minimum Wage Study The San Francisco Chronicle opposed the November 2003 initiative that created an $8.50 per hour city minimum wage, believing that the $6.75 state minimum was sufficient. Now that a new study has shown that none of the predicted negatives associated with the wage hike has occurred, the Chronicle’s January 4 article on the report continues the paper’s anti-wage hike crusade. Forget the fact that the current $8.82 per hour remains far below what city contractors must pay, or that the state minim...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 8:41am PST
Twentieth Annual Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival, Jan. 13-15, 2006 The Twentieth Annual Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival, honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s contribution to the civil rights and labor movements, will be held January 13-15, 2006.
The weekend of solidarity in an era of war, racism, and hard times features music, drama, visual arts, spoken word, poetry, photography and more....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 8:41pm PST
1/13/05 SF Protest Against Racism, Discrimination & Corruption At SF City Hall On Jan 13, 2005 at 4:00 PM on the steps of SF City hall workers will protest the racism, Discrimination
and corruption at SF City Hall. Black PUC chemist Anita Labossiere faces a trumped up
termination after exposing hanging nooses at the S. E. Sewage plant and 22 Black & Latino LIUNA 261 laborers
remain unemployed after an illegal deal to lay them off and replace them with workers doing
the same work at 50% less pay....
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 11:30am PST
Job lock-outs plus gentrification equals genocide “To understand what’s going on in Hunters Point you have to do an exhaustive study on gentrification,” says Khalid Muhammad, publisher of the magazine, First Impressions Home Improvement Guide. Muhammad grew up in Bayview Hunters Point and heads his own painting company, First Impressions Painting....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 8:02am PST
Sutter Health Investigated for Abusing Nonprofit Status State Assembly Committee Chair Criticizes Sutter at Hearing on
Hospital and Non Profit Status...
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 7:58pm PST
12/23/05 KPFA Labor Show "Labor Rights Are Human Rights" The KPFA Labor Collective will be programming a show titled "Labor Rights Are Human Rights"
on Friday December 23, 2005 at 6:30 PM on KPFA FM 94.1. It is also available on the internet...
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 3:13pm PST
Labor Heritage/Rockin' Solidarity Chorus class at Laney College The Labor Heritage/Rockin' Solidarity Chorus will be starting its seventh year at City College of San Francisco and Laney College in Oakland....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 11:14pm PST
Green Party Window Dressing Undermines Working Class Power Todd Chrétien is a great activist and has offered much in leading the ISO in their anti-war movement and various solidarity and educational efforts. His foray into Green Party politics is a step backwards....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 9:49pm PST
Restaurant Workers Claim Victory Against Abusive Manager Restaurant workers at Steak Escape in the downtown San Francisco mall united and worked with Young Workers United to force an abusive manager to quit....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 6:24pm PST
12/22 SF Forum On Labor In Haiti And Role Of AFL-CIO Solidarity Center Labor researcher Jeb Sprague will speak about the role of the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center in Haiti
and how his research on this issue has led to retaliation against him at California State
University at Long Beach...
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 12:38pm PST
Twentieth Annual Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival, Jan. 13-15, 2006 The Twentieth Annual Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival, honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s contribution to the civil rights and labor movements, will be held January 13-15, 2006.
The weekend of solidarity in an era of war, racism, and hard times features music, drama, visual arts, spoken word, poetry, photography and more....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 9:43am PST
Photos From The Berkeley Honda Picket Lines 
Workers at Berkeley Honda are still on strike since the owners refuse to negotiate in good faith. Rallies are held every week on Thursdays from 4:30-6:00 and on Saturdays from 1:00-2:30....
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 6:11pm PST
"Dream What We Can Become & Rejoice" UC Berkeley 
Multimedia exhibit — photos, music, videos, DVDs, smellavision — from the carkness of worker oppression to the light of hopeful organizing....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 6:33am PST
12/5Testimony of SF Hearing On On Agreesive Union Busting In SF & N. CA On Monday Dember 5, 2005 a SF City hearing was held on agressive union busting in
San Francisco and Northern California....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 5:04pm PST
Justice for Delphi Workers Demo, Saturday in Concord Workers’ Rights March and Rally
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Lithia Dodge
4901 Marsh Drive, Concord
11:00 a.m....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 12:28am PST
Berkeley Honda Rallies, Negotiation Where: Shattuck & Parker
When: Th., 12/8, 4:30-6:00
Sat., 12/10, 1-2:30...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 11:04am PST
City Hall Hearing on Aggressive Union-Busting in San Francisco Testimonies of local union activists who have been illegally fired, followed and threatened, and hurt.
Monday, Dec. 5, 2005. San Francisco City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, Room # 263. 12:00 press conference on City Hall steps. 3:00 pm hearing in Room 263.
Sponsered by SF Supervisor Jake McGoldrick and the San Francisco Labor Council....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 11:58pm PST
12/5 SF Hearing On Agressive Union-Busting Tactics In N. CA A SF city government hearing will be held on Monday December 5, 2005 at 3:00 PM at SF City
Hall on the use of union-busting tactics by N. California employers to prevent workers from
organizing, striking or having labor rights on the job....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 11:52am PST
New Events for Week of Dec 10 Please join with California unions and unions across the country
to celebrate International Human Rights Day by declaring your
support for our fundamental freedom to form unions....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 1:50pm PST
12/5 in Oakland: Come help "Move the Movement" for Transportation Justice 
December 5th, 2005, 4:00-5:30pm Frank Ogawa Plaza (in front of City Hall) Broadway & 14th Street, Oakland...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 1:47pm PST
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