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Dialogue, Music and Solidarity-Meet JPN Delegation Meet and hear from the labor/community delegation from Japan that is visiting the US to participate in the Million Worker March. They will be stopping by in San Francisco on Oct 14 at ILWU Local 6 for a reception and discussion...
Posted: Sat, Oct 9, 2004 10:53pm PDT
10/14SF Labor TV Show On Hotel Strike On San Francisco Cable Channel 29 on Thursday October 14, 2004 there will be a one hour show on the struggle of striking and locked out hotel workers with edited footage and interviews with the workers....
Posted: Sat, Oct 9, 2004 10:48pm PDT
Domestic Workers Rights Coalition supports Local 2 Hotel Workers (video/quicktime 20.2MB) The California Domestic Workers Rights Coalition held a press conference at the Women's Building in San Francisco's Mission District October 7th. Various speakers told what they had done to aid the strikers, and several Local 2 members spoke. Renee Saucedo told how hotel management's attempt to round-up scabs in The Mission had been thwarted. Six-minute QuickTime movie. 20MB.
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Parts 2 and 3 of the press conference will be down below in several days.
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A higher-res version of this movie i...
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 10:23am PDT
Working Class Solidarity Flying Picket 
The San Francisco Hotel Workers Strike is into its second week. It started with strikes at 4 hotels and soon the hotel owners locked out workers at 10 others. Now the hotels, bascically representing the 5 or so multinationals that own most of the major hotels in the U.S., have announced that the lockout will continue beyond the end of the 2-week strike called by the union, which is this Wednesday. We're calling for action by the community to support all 4,000 of our working class sisters and...
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 1:14am PDT
Actor Danny Glover joins locked-out hotel workers in SF 
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 7OCTOBER04 - Actor Danny Glover joins the picketline of locked out San Francisco hotel workers, HERE/UNITE Local 2, in front of the Four Seasons Hotel....
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 8:06pm PDT
Customer Support Day of Action: October 15th in San Francisco This October 15th join the San Francisco Labor Council and hundreds of supporters at a major rally in San Francisco......
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 7:27pm PDT
Stop Valero’s Attack on Union Labor the Valero Corporation insists on hiring over 800 non-union, temporary workers to replace formerly union jobs. Please join me in supporting our brothers and sisters in the local Bricklayers Union who will be losing over 80 union jobs at the refinery....
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 3:12pm PDT
City College SF United Front Rally for Hotel Strike 
Rally on Ram Plaza, City College SF -
Thurs Oct 7 12 noon -
United Front Slogans:
Students Support the Hotel Workers!
Protest the Union-Busting Lockout!
Victory to the UNITE HERE Strike!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 6, 2004 12:43pm PDT
SF Hotel Strike: Report from the Front ...just minutes after ten big hotels locked out 2600 San Francisco hotel workers....
Posted: Wed, Oct 6, 2004 9:27am PDT
Strike Breakers Out Of SF Hotels SF District Supervisorial Candidate Steve Zeltzer is calling on the Mayor and the District Attorney To prosecute the strikebreakers who have been brought into SF to defeat the hotel strike. He is also supporting mass picket lines....
Posted: Tue, Oct 5, 2004 2:13pm PDT
Support Grocery Workers on October 15 This October 15th Please Join Us for a Major Rally in
San Francisco......
Posted: Tue, Oct 5, 2004 1:11pm PDT
10/15: Rally to Support Grocery Workers What: Major Customer Support Rally
When: Friday, October 15th
4:00 p.m.
Where: Safeway @ Market & Church Streets
San Francisco
Who: Supporters of Bay Area Grocery Workers Labor,
Religious, and Civic leaders...
Posted: Tue, Oct 5, 2004 12:07pm PDT
Truckers Join IWW, Win 2-Day Strike More than 200 Stockton owner-operator truckers working out of the rail yards in California's Central Valley have joined the IWW since July and won several victories....
Posted: Tue, Oct 5, 2004 10:55am PDT
Black and White Images Of The First Day Of The Hotel Workers Strike 
The strike and lockout of the 4,000 is now ending its first week. The picket lines at the 14 plush hotels affected remain strong and determined....
Posted: Tue, Oct 5, 2004 10:44am PDT
Hotel Strike:Stop Scab Labor Ads; Build A Labor Movement The good news is that the scab hotels are practically empty! The mass picketlines with their fabulous drum corps and our material support have been a success this first week. However, there is still no union contract and thus there is still a lot of work to do, including stopping scab ads and providing material support....
Posted: Mon, Oct 4, 2004 7:20pm PDT
Scenes From The San Francisco Hotel Lockout: Sheraton Palace 
Pictures from a picket in front of San Francisco's Sheraton Palace following a lockout of the hotel's workers...
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 11:40pm PDT
Scenes From The San Francisco Hotel Lockout: Argent 
Pictures from the picket in front of the Argent...
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 11:22pm PDT
Scenes From The San Francisco Hotel Lockout: Hyatt Regency 
I was walking past the Hyatt Regency Satuday and got these pictures...
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 11:11pm PDT
Support Needed for Hotel Strikers: We All Can Help While we wait for the necessary general strike call from the San Francisco Central Labor Council that will guarantee a union contract for the hotel strikers within 24 hours, every single one of us can do something to help the hotel strikers....
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 2:39pm PDT
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