Newsitem List
Support Palo Alto’s hourly and temporary workers as they organize for a voice, respect, and access to basic benefits! The workers will submit their petition to unionize at City Hall on Wednesday and need you to show the City that they have the support of the Palo Alto community....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 5:38pm PDT
The picket line will begin at 3:00 PM on Friday, August 27, 2004, and continue until 6:00 PM on Saturday, August 28, 2004....
Posted: Fri, Aug 13, 2004 7:15pm PDT
Pro-democracy, pro-reform KPFA staff members weigh in on the crisis at the station......
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 2:14pm PDT
The rebels, who model themselves on Peru's Shining Path guerrillas, have told vehicles to stay off roads leading to the capital of the poverty-hit Himalayan nation from next Wednesday. "Apart from encircling the capital, the Maoists are planning to attack in the far western and far eastern Nepal district over the next three months, and the army is getting fully prepared to crush them," the army official said....
Posted: Wed, Aug 11, 2004 2:46pm PDT
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Reports presents this 27.5 min radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS LINK BELOW...
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2004 2:52pm PDT
Aug 10 & 11 - Meet a Brazilian revolutionary!
Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST) Celebrates 20 Years!
Ramao Aldo da Silva, a leader of the National Coordination Committee of the MST, will speak at New College and La Pena Cultual Center....
Posted: Mon, Aug 9, 2004 10:28pm PDT
Workers stand up to hotel corporations, call march and rally on August 13....
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 4:41pm PDT
The southern California labor struggle that forced a long grocery strike is coming to the Bay Area this fall...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 8:39am PDT
All shall kneel before Sam Walton!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 8:38am PDT
EMERGENCY LEVI STRAUSS BULLHORN ACTION! -- Thursday, Aug. 5th -- at Levi's HQ: 1155 Battery, San Francisco -- at 1PM!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 3:01am PDT
The certification of a union at a Wal-Mart in Quebec is a “tremendous moral victory” for other mobilization efforts among the chain's employees across Canada, a labour lawyer says....
Posted: Wed, Aug 4, 2004 1:04pm PDT
There is Special Labor Programming airing on KPFA in August and on Labor Day....
Posted: Tue, Aug 3, 2004 3:31pm PDT
Open letter from Guy Debord, dated 1 September 1980, concerning the secret detention of Basque separatists in Spanish jails, translated into English for the first time since 1981....
Posted: Tue, Aug 3, 2004 12:12am PDT
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 29 minute radio show. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2004 7:05am PDT
Thousands of San Francisco janitors met in San Francisco to discuss the possible decertification of SEIU 1877. Hundreds of janitors are angry at the failure to represent them and a forced merger....
Posted: Sun, Aug 1, 2004 4:35pm PDT
The KPFA Labor Collective is producing programs on issues facing working people during the month of August. These programs deal with the battle facing grocery workers, young workers and...
Posted: Sun, Aug 1, 2004 10:08am PDT
Workers in Western Europe, who enjoy "the shortest workweeks and longest vacations in the world," confront downward pressures on free time exercised by longer hours in the USA and cheaper labor in former socialist nations....
Posted: Sun, Aug 1, 2004 9:57am PDT
In a stunning reversal, the Bush Administration dominated NLRB rules against Starbucks workers trying to organize with the IWW. This ruling could affect all union attempts to organize corporate chains....
Posted: Sat, Jul 31, 2004 9:07am PDT
Saturday, July 31 2004 12:30pm
Intersection of I-880 & Hegenberger Road...
Posted: Thu, Jul 29, 2004 8:30am PDT