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Picket To Stop OneSource From Abusing Janitors 
The janitors have reported discrimination, harassment, and unsafe working conditions. OneSource has failed to address janitor's concerns and continues to pile impossible - and unsafe - amounts of work on janitors around the city, including the Transamerica Pyramid....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 10:08pm PST
The 1937 San Francisco Hotel Strike A good history of the 1937 Hotel Strikes and the rememberence of a fighting working class....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 2:15am PST
Emergency Albertson's Action on Thursday 12/20 
We need your support by joining us for an Emergency Day of Action this Thursday between 4:00-5:00 PM at the Albertson’s store at 3250 Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland. UFCW grocery workers will deliver their message to Safeway and Albertson’s: “Don’t Take Away Our Health Care!"...
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 5:38pm PST
1/18 SF March for Social Security Please add the January 18, 2005 march for Social Security at 11:30 a.m. in San Francisco's Financial District to your Martin Luther King week of demonstrations. We are going to give Bush the political lesson he needs: When you attack Social Security, you build a united front of opposition, and we shall win....
Posted: Sun, Jan 16, 2005 4:33pm PST
Wobblies are BACK IWW is back. Read this please, I really hope people will tell us what they think. It talks about all the stuff going on in the union....
Posted: Fri, Jan 14, 2005 2:26am PST
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Living Wage Law Challenges Skates had refused to pay the living wage while the case was litigated, and instead chose to place the unpaid wages in an escrow account that must now be paid to the employees....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 5:28pm PST
Restaurant workers speak out on KPFA's morning show Tune into KPFA at 94.1 FM (or at www.kpfa.org) from 8:08-8:28am, Pacific time, Wednesday and Friday or listen to archives of the whole weeks worth of shows on KPFA's website....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 5:26pm PST
9th Circuit Court Decision: Employers Can Require Women's Makeup The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on December 28th, 2004 that a female employee fired for refusing to wear makeup cannot sue her employer for sex discrimination....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 12:42pm PST
Hotel Workers United Update: DC, LA, SF With the holidays over and the 2nd Inauguration of George W. Bush fast approaching, D.C.'s union hotel workers will be stepping up the pressure on hotel management to get a fair citywide hotel contract. Meanwhile, negotiations continue in San Francisco...The boycott of the 9 hotels in Los Angeles has put significant pressure on the Employers' Council as a growing number of customers are honoring the boycott of nine upscale LA hotels....
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 3:46pm PST
Labor TV Show OnThe Coming War At SF Chron&Crisis In AFL-CIO&Future Of Labor Now On Web Labor On The Job is now streaming it's show The Coming War At SF Chron & Crisis In AFL-CIO & Future Of Labor...
Posted: Sun, Jan 2, 2005 5:18pm PST
The Fight in California 
Two weeks, the supermarket workers in northern California had a protest, against the efforts of Safeway and other strong chains of cutting again the health insurance in the negotiations of a new union contract in this part of the neighbor of the north....
Posted: Sun, Dec 26, 2004 11:21pm PST
Nursing Home Workers at SF Jewish Home CANCEL Christmas Strike After Requests From Family Nursing Home Workers at SF Jewish Home CANCEL Christmas Strike After Requests From Family Members, Senator Boxer...
Posted: Thu, Dec 23, 2004 11:39pm PST
Peace and Freedom Party Supports Striking Nurses 
Contract negotiations at a standstill. UMC nurses strike....
Posted: Thu, Dec 23, 2004 6:30pm PST
Nurses Strike in Fresno 
Nurses from University Medical Center (UMC) were on strike today. The one day strike was called by nurses who are members of the California Nurses Association (CNA) to pressure management to bargain in good faith....
Posted: Thu, Dec 23, 2004 6:07pm PST
NINETEENTH ANNUAL WESTERN WORKERS LABOR HERITAGE FESTIVAL NINETEENTH ANNUAL WESTERN WORKERS LABOR HERITAGE FESTIVAL - San Jose
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's contribution to the civil rights and labor
movements...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 11:32pm PST
SF Mayor Shows Interest in Sweatfree Ordinance Mayor Gavin Newsom has directed San Francisco procurement officials
to begin crafting a sweatfree approach to the city/county’s purchasing procedures.
Initial talks between anti-sweatshop advocates and local officials began this week,
and could affect as much as one billion dollars yearly in total purchasing
decisions....
Posted: Sun, Dec 19, 2004 12:56am PST
SF SWEATFREE CAMPAIGN BEGINS! Mayor Gavin Newsom has directed San Francisco procurement
officials to begin crafting a sweatfree approach to the city/county¹s
purchasing procedures. Initial talks between anti-sweatshop advocates and
local officials began this week, and could affect as much as one billion
dollars yearly in total purchasing decisions....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 11:22pm PST
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