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Anti-CAFTA Rally & Press Conference @ Pelosi's office THURSDAY!
Rally and press conference to oppose CAFTA and request Leader Nancy Pelosi’s support for a new, democratic approach to globalization. Thursday May 27th 2004 @ 12:00pm at the Federal Building in San Francisco (near Civic Center BART @ 450 Golden Gate Ave)....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 12:43pm PDT
UPTE Terminates Organizing Staff
UPTE-CWA Local 9119 terminates all organizing staff:
UPTE Staff demands that UPTE leaders practice what they preach....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 10:58pm PDT
Phone Workers Rally - Monday, May 24 - Oakland
Monday, May 24 - 3pm
2150 Webster
Oakland...
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 4:22pm PDT
East Bay CWA Picket Line Locations for Memorial Day Weekend Strike
Plan now to walk the line this Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday at
any of these locations:...
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 12:57am PDT
5/22 - CWA Strikers To Be Featured at Sat. Eve Rally for Million Worker March
Please tell your friends, family and co-workers about the MWM Kickoff Rally and about the picket lines to support the striking CWA workers....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 1:56pm PDT
Join the Phone Workers' Picket Line
Report back from day 1 and a call out to join the picket at 2150 Webster, Oakland....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 7:08am PDT
Comments on the Official CWA "Strategy"
I stand in solidarity with striking SBC workers, but the CWA officialdom's strategy of calling for a consumer boycott and switching carriers (from SBC to ATT) is ineffectual. A more militant strategy is needed....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 3:19am PDT
Phone Workers Strike - Day 1 - More Pics
More pics from SBC STRIKE - day 1....
Posted: Fri, May 21, 2004 8:05pm PDT
SBC Pickets in San Francisco
SBC pickets at 3rd street office in San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, May 21, 2004 12:57pm PDT
Pics from Phone Workers Strike - Day 1
Some pictures from today's picket lines throughout the east bay....
Posted: Fri, May 21, 2004 12:35pm PDT
Communication Workers Walkout Begins Fri at 12:01 am
The Communications Workers of America announced that a 4-day strike involving 100,000 union employees of SBC in 13 states will begin at 12:01 a.m. local time in each time zone on Friday, May 21...
Posted: Thu, May 20, 2004 12:53am PDT
SBC workers ready to strike
Hamden -- The strike deadline for union workers at SBC is fast approaching. On Tuesday, Local union 1298 gave 24 hours notice that workers could walk off the job if they do not receive better health benefits and more job protection....
Posted: Tue, May 18, 2004 8:27pm PDT
Film Screening and Benefit for the Immigrant Worker Freedom Rides - This Friday - Oakland!
This Friday evening - there will be a benefit for the Immigrant Worker Freedom Rides - at the AK Press warehouse in Oakland. Including a film screening of The Gatekeeper, and a panel discussion by Freedom Riders themselves....
Posted: Tue, May 18, 2004 5:04pm PDT
San Francisco garment workers and supporters victorious in struggle with REI. Part 1 (video/quicktime 20.1MB)
Ngar Chun Kuang Yee tells what it is like not to be paid for months of work, and, when finally paid, to get not even the minimum wage. May 12, 2004. Four minute QT movie. 20MB....
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 6:49pm PDT
Concord Truckers Protest
About 100 independent truck drivers formed a picket line in Concord on
Friday evening, where they beseeched local trucking companies to increase
rates and improve working conditions....
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 12:19am PDT
A View from the Bay Bridge
Civil Liberties Victory in Oakland Courts: All Charges Dropped Against Port Anti-War Protesters; Longshoremen Plan Mass March on Washington...
Posted: Sun, May 16, 2004 10:40am PDT
5/19 Sacramento Marxist School book discussion
Sacramento Discussion of a Book on Labor Unions...
Posted: Sun, May 16, 2004 8:21am PDT
[gangbox] TROQUEROS REVOLT....
TROQUEROS REVOLT....can the California port truckers wildcat strike lead to the reunionization of the freight industry???...
Posted: Sat, May 15, 2004 5:44pm PDT
Cabbies Win NLRB Union Ruling
“It’s a struggle just to make it,” said Zadran, who suffers from an irregular heartbeat and confesses that cab driving expenses have kept him from taking a vacation in the past seven years. “But I didn’t have no choice. If I didn’t work my kids will be on the streets. The moment I heard [the drivers got a union] I was so happy.”...
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 4:29pm PDT
For 8 days in May, Truckers closed the Port of Oakland
For eight days in May, the Port of Oakland was virtually shut down by truckers striking for better conditions. The same port had been closed down by antiwar protesters just three weeks before, so a small contingent of us from Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW) joined them as a community support group and reported their struggle on Indymedia....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 8:31pm PDT