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IWW Callout to Support Striking Truck Drivers at the Port of Oakland Independent Truckers around the United States will be striking on June 28 - July 4 to demand higher pay and better working conditions....
Posted: Thu, Jun 24, 2004 1:28pm PDT
Truckers call for nationwide port strike From The Journal of Commerce -- It seems like they take the trucker movement seriously even though the progressives do not. --Jim D...
Posted: Wed, Jun 23, 2004 7:55pm PDT
Big Brother Says Hello: Post-modern Management "Once businesses simply expected their employees to be present. Today they demand complete openness. Management seeks to increase `total efficiency' by operational organiza-tion. Team, task force, incentive and fringe benefit are the new slogans.."...
Posted: Wed, Jun 23, 2004 11:18am PDT
The draft platform of the REVOLUTIONARY PARTY, comments encouraged The draft platform of the REVOLUTIONARY PARTY, comments encouraged...
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2004 9:53pm PDT
Judge approves class-action discrimination case against Wal-Mart When I heard about this break in the Wal-Mart case I felt like dancing for joy. Now we just need to figure out how to create a space in this country where folks can organize and not get fired or otherwise crushed by anti-union lawfirms and consultants. Hopefully organizing with Wal-Mart workers will be able to take on a whole new level in the near future as Wal-Mart invades the SF Bay Area and California....
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2004 11:33am PDT
Building Bridges Radio-Reagan the Liberal and I.W.W. vs Starbucks Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEBCAST LISTED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE....
Posted: Mon, Jun 21, 2004 2:54pm PDT
DRC Releases Prop 209 Study! Discrimination Research Center Releases Study "Prop 209 and the Decline of Women in the Construction Trades"....
Posted: Mon, Jun 21, 2004 1:09pm PDT
Independent truckers June 28 a national wildcat strike is taking place by the truckers for recognition and wage increase....
Posted: Mon, Jun 21, 2004 1:06pm PDT
KPFA Now- Awesome Juneteenth Programming KPFA is airing a program by the labor collective about Juneteenth and labor and African American struggles this morning. check it out- kpfa.org (archives should be available later) or 94.1 fm...
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 9:59am PDT
6/19 - March with Gallo workers as they join thousands to Bridge the Gap in Healthcare If you have not yet done so, please sign the "Gallo Unfair" petition. It's critical to demonstrate support for the workers at Gallo of Sonoma before the next negotiation meeting on August 4. Our goal is for 25,000 people to sign the "Gallo Unfair" petition. Please sign the petition by going to: http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/GalloPetition....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 9:53am PDT
Get On The Bus And March For Healthcare June 19 One of the main speakers for the event is Diane Powe, UFCW Local 870 member and our own Alameda County activist. She'll join Judy Goff, members of "Team (Barbara) Lee," and other unions on the bus - the easiest, fastest way to get to the March...
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 9:42am PDT
June 23 - Rally against ICE/INS Raids in the Mission stop all raids!, that the city denounce the raids!, & that the police and FBI not cooperate with the INS stop violating the human rights of immigrants who are under custody of the INS...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 4:57pm PDT
Round-ups & Desaparecidos (bilingual) INS (or whatever Homeland Security Dept. acronym they've got now) have recently raided businesses, picked people off the street, and racially profiled and harassed community members and leader in a campaign against undocumented people and allies....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 1:42pm PDT
Building Bridges Radio- Class War with Bill Moyers, Meizhu Lui, and Chuck Collins Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Reports brings you this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEBCAST AT BOTTOM OF THE PAGE....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 6:52am PDT
Brave New World of Work: The Political Economy of Insecurity "The utopia of the free market has an unintentional upshot: the Brazilianization of the West.. What is most remarkable is the new similarity of the development profiles.., the incursion of the pre-carious, intermittent, fluffy and unsanctioned in the western bulwarks of the full employment society.."...
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 9:29am PDT
Unions Continue Heated Dispute With Alta Bates Medical Center Ninety percent of 800 workers who voted at the Alta Bates Summit Medical center rejected a recent contract offer by the hospital late last week, locking the two sides back into heated negotiations that have been ongoing since before the workers’ contract expired at the end of May....
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 10:15am PDT
Workers confront Visteon violence BEDFORD, Ind. – To workers on the mass picket line at the Visteon auto parts plant here, it seems like the company, a Ford spin-off, has planned long and hard to systematically slash their wages and wipe out their jobs.
“Their goal is to get all of us out of that plant and get people starting at $7 an hour, topping at $10, and never, never go higher and no medical,” said Lori Staley, an assembler of fuel system components....
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 9:54am PDT
Reagan, Class and Organized Labor"One Of The Most Damaging Presidents In American History" We speak with Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers of America and Francis Fox Piven, one of the country's leading sociologists, about class and organized labor during Reagan's presidency. [Includes transcript]...
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 9:52am PDT
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