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Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 2:45pm PST
Bolivarian Revolution...
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 12:43pm PST
...by migrant workers, now since one year and one week in sit-in strike against S. Korean government's policy of manhunt, mass arrestings and deportations....
Posted: Mon, Nov 22, 2004 6:31pm PST
Saturday morning, in negotiations at Mayor Gavin Newsom's office, the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group agreed to end the lockout....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 10:54pm PST
Saturday morning, in negotiations at Mayor Gavin Newsom's
office, the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group agreed to end the
lockout....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 1:16pm PST
Lock-out over... Workers and hotel management enter cooling off period... 11/20 Action to Support Hotel Workers......
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 11:18am PST
With 4,000 workers facing an end to their medical benefits due to the hotel companies' lockout, Chinese Community Health Plan and PacifiCare have joined Kaiser Permanente in announcing that they will continue medical coverage through January 31st, 2005....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 9:41am PST
Leaders from UNITE HERE Local 11 and officials from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor announced Nov. 12 a boycott of nine upscale hotels, members of the Los Angeles Hotel Employers’ Council. The hotels include the Biltmore, Hyatt Regency, Beverly Wilshire, Westin Bonaventure, Wilshire Grand, St. Regis, Sheraton Universal, Hyatt West Hollywood and Century Plaza.
A Nov. 11 community meeting at the UNITE union hall brought together community and union leaders to help plan strategy fo...
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 10:02pm PST
Hotel workers at 14 San Francisco luxury hotels are in the sixth week of a lockout that began on October 1. The action by the hotels was in response to a strike launched September 29 by1,400 members of Local 2 of the Union of Needle Trades Industrial and Textile Employees-Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (UNITE HERE) against the Hilton, Argent, Mark Hopkins and Crowne Plaza hotels....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 10:00pm PST
This struggle cannot be won if scabs are allowed to cross the picket line
every day of the week. Hotel owners will have little interest in making
concessions as long as their profits keep pouring in....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 3:14pm PST
The Million Worker March Committee has initiated a call for a RALLY & MARCH to support the SF locked out hotel workers for this Saturday, November 20. Gather at 11:00 AM in Union Square....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 1:22pm PST
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report brings you this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON INTERNET WEB ADDRESS LINK...
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 6:34pm PST
Kirchner verfolgt, nimmt fest und verurteilt diejenige, die für Arbeit, Lohn und Essen kämpfen.
In Anbetracht dieser Tatsachen wollen wir eine internationale Kampagne starten. Alle Gewerkschaftsorganisationen, sozialistischen und sozialdemokratischen Parteien müssen diese Tatsache zurückweisen und die sofortige Freilassung der inhaftierten Arbeiter von Caleta Olivia bei der argentinischen Regierung Kirchner fordern....
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 11:00am PST
JOBS WITH JUSTICE!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 10:47am PST
Since yesterday's declaration of the general strike, the government is reacting with repression. Today migrant workers in Seoul are exactly ONE year in sit-in strike!...
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 9:29am PST
a look back at the recent Million Worker March in D.C....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 5:43pm PST
BALTIMORE, MD (11/9/04)--If you crossed Light Street walking east on the south side of Pratt around 5:00pm today, you would have noticed on your left a Baltimore Police Department squad car and a police van with back doors open and, in full view, 10 seats waiting for potential arrestees with seat belts opened to embrace them. On your right, a rally of 150-200 listening to speakers and chanting....
Posted: Thu, Nov 11, 2004 6:14pm PST
The Million Worker March Committee has initiated a call for a rally and march to support the SF locked out hotel workers on Saturday November 20, 2004 at 11:00 AM at Union Square....
Posted: Thu, Nov 11, 2004 2:33pm PST