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5/20- Save the Date-- Rally at Safeway Shareholder Meeting On May 20th, thousands of grocery workers, labor allies, and community supporters will rally outside the Shareholder Meeting to send a clear message to Safeway investors:
We will keep the heat on Safeway CEO Steve Burd. We will fight for our future!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 11:17pm PDT
Join the Telephone Workers - March & Rally - Oakland - May 6 
Telephone Workers March & Rally. May 6th....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 5:34pm PDT
KPFA May Day 2004 Programming KPFA 94.1 FM radio will be programming 5 hour of May Day programming on May 1, 2004. It is available as well on the internet....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 10:40am PDT
Rally for Justice at UC Medical Centers Rally for Justice at UC! May 20th - UC Service and Patient Care workers demand an end to Executive Greed....
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 9:18pm PDT
Berkeley Bowl Memo about Labor Board Charges 
This is a memo that Berkeley Bowl posted by the time clock last week for all employees to read....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 10:49pm PDT
Million Worker March meeting There will be a planning meeting for the Million Worker March on Sunday 4/25 at 4:30 p.m. at ILWU, Local 10, 400 North Point, San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:11am PDT
NLRB Decision Could Reverse Berkeley Bowl Union Defeat “The theory is that the union didn’t win because of the unfair labor practices and it’s pointless to hold a second election because there would be no way to get back to the status quo that existed before the alleged unfair labor practices,” said Leong(Assistant Regional Director for the National Labor Relations Board office in Oakland)...
Posted: Fri, Apr 23, 2004 2:52pm PDT
Rev. Billy Putting An End to WalMart Envy 
Rev. Billy and the Stop Big Boxes Gospel Choir pay a visit to a Safeway in Berkeley, where they call on Safeway to stop WalMart envy, and provide a fair contract to their employees with full health care coverage. Rev. Billy also allowed someone to speak about the struggle against McDonalds in Oakland,...
Posted: Fri, Apr 23, 2004 12:47am PDT
Charges dropped against Oakland port protesters Over a year since Oakland police opened fire with wooden bullets and metal-shot bags against protesters at the Oakland docks, even though video demonstrated that they had been nonviolent, charges were dropped against 24 arrestees....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 1:03pm PDT
Support Ben Davis workers in SF! Support union workers sewing Ben Davis work wear as they as fight for a fair union contract in San Francisco...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 3:39pm PDT
May1 Laborfest Film Screening&Music/Poetry LaborFest will host an international celebration of May Day with labor films from Argentina, Columbia and Korea. We will also have music and poetry....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 3:28pm PDT
4/21 - Rally for Clarement Workers - 12pm at UCB, Lower Sproul Plaza HERE local 2850 and workers at the Claremont have called for a rally on the UCB campus calling for the Haas Business School, Athletics Dept, and the School of Public Health to stop using the Claremont....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 10:41am PDT
4/27 - Support Ben Davis Workers in San Francisco JOIN UNITE AND BEN DAVIS WORKERS!
ENFORCE THE S.F. MINIMUM WAGE!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 19, 2004 4:14am PDT
Bay Area Grocery Workers fight for Americas Healthcare September 11, 2004, we are going to see a major class conflict take place with at least 30,000 grocery workers on the one side and Safeway, Albertsons and other major corporations on the other. Will the conflict result with a major defeat of the workers like what happened in Southern California?...
Posted: Sun, Apr 18, 2004 4:56pm PDT
Wal-Mart class-action labor suit set for Oakland court The California Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday for a trial in one of the largest labor suits pending against Wal-Mart, a statewide claim that managers forced employees to work without rest and meal breaks....
Posted: Thu, Apr 15, 2004 1:03pm PDT
Organize From Below A Message to Young People Who Are Considering Taking a Job as a Union Staffer...
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 8:23pm PDT
Call For Million Worker Rally by ILWU 10 ILWU Local 10 has initiated the call for a million worker rally in Washington DC in mid-October. The protest has been called to demand an end to privatization, deregulation, the Taft-Hartley and other issues....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 9:12pm PDT
Oakland Action at Coke Regional Headquarters on March 23 
“If we lose the fight against Coca-Cola, we will first lose our union, next our jobs and then our lives.” Juan Carlos Galvis, VP of local union in Colombia....
Posted: Mon, Apr 12, 2004 10:57pm PDT
High Unemployment Rates Hurt Valley Workers 
Unemployment rates in the Central Valley are three times the national average. Figures just released shows Fresno County unemployment at 15.9% in March. Merced County unemployment is at 18.3% and Kings County is at 17.1%. These figures do not reflect the number of people working part time or who have given up looking for work altogether. In some rural communities the “official” unemployment rate is over 50%....
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2004 1:59pm PDT
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