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Labor Study Is Alone Under Gov.'s Budget Ax Of the hundreds of research institutes in California's public university system, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has targeted just one for elimination: a think tank dedicated to organized labor....
Posted: Sat, Apr 17, 2004 11:54am 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
Stop Union Busting in Haiti "The company pays for this type of thing, to destroy the unions. There’s a group of 20 people in the free trade zone who are paid to prevent the formation of any unions." - (IFCTU Report, disclosed by Charles Arthur, of the Haiti Support Group, September 2003)....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 6:29pm PDT
Office of the Special Counsel Says Gays Again Protected The Office of the Special Counsel has finally conceded that it was wrong to have announced gays and lesbians working for the federal government were no longer protected against discrimination in the workplace....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2004 12:00am PDT
4/9 1pm: Clergy, Grocery Workers Congregate for Interfaith Services Clergy, Grocery Workers Congregate for Interfaith Services
Where: Park, 14th and Broadway, Oakland
When: Friday, April 9 - 1 pm...
Posted: Thu, Apr 8, 2004 10:11pm PDT
Issue #17 of Canada's Grassroots National Newspaper The Dominion is a free, not-for-profit newspaper available in print and online....
Posted: Wed, Apr 7, 2004 11:45am PDT
4/6 SF Muni Hearings-Stop the Cutbacks! April 6, 2004, 4 p.m., Room 400, City Hall, San Francisco, is where you should be if you care about public transportation and labor in San Francisco. Bus lines that are threatened with cuts in service, with a corresponding loss in jobs for those who provide this service, are the 4, 5, 7, 15, 9 and 14 lines, all needed by the workingclass....
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 8:17pm PDT
4/24: Support the Maquiladora Workers at Daewoo Co. in Mexicali, Mexico! On April 24, a Binational Conference in Support of the Daewoo
Maquiladora Workers will be held in the border city of Mexicali,
Mexico -- just across from Calexico, Calif....
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 12:44am PDT
Beyond the Class Struggle "The capitalist contradictions intensify as never before.. Capital destroys its own foundations in a piercer-movement.. Capital de-socializes society.. The result is a crisis sociology of the mass unemployed and social security recipients, pseudo-independents and flexibilized job hoppers.."...
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2004 6:45am PST
4/3 Enemy Combatant Radio to Stream Live from LaborTech Conference ::: ECR REMOTE :::
will be streaming
LIVE
from the
::: LABORTECH 2004 :::
Conference
from Stanford University.
April - 3...
Posted: Fri, Apr 2, 2004 10:21pm PST
Libertarian think tank slams Open Source The Institute for Policy Innovation, a non-profit libertarian-leaning public policy organization, has put out a short four-page white paper questioning the ability of open source to meet the hurdles of the mass market....
Posted: Fri, Apr 2, 2004 3:38pm PST
The Machine of Personal Responsibility: On the Historyof Liberal Ideology "Must the price of progress be the social degradation of the person to a Pavlovian dog of the market machine?..The absoloutism of the market is not an alternative to the absolutism of the state. We have the task of reinventing the old idea of social freedom for the 21st century.."...
Posted: Fri, Apr 2, 2004 5:23am PST
Bush Addresses 8.2 Million Unemployed: 'Get A Job' WASHINGTON, DC—Responding to the nation's worst unemployment rate since the Hoover Administration, President Bush addressed the nation's 8.2 million unemployed workers in a televised speech Monday. "The economy has been on the rebound for months, but 5.6 percent of you are still out of work," Bush said. "Come on, people: Get a job! Don't just sit there hoping that you'll win the lottery. Turn off that boob tube, get off that couch, and start pounding the pavement."...
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 6:58pm PST
Korean&Argentinian Labor Video Events Korean and Argentinian Labor Films with discussions will be held in SF & Berkeley on 4/5/04 and 4/7/04...
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 5:55pm PST
Bush, Frist, and Nickles Cut 1.1 Million Workers Off From Unemployment Extensions A short article about how Bush, Frist, and Nickles
have cut 1.1 million people off from unemployment
extensions....
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 5:40pm PST
Ban on Big-Box Stores has been repealed in Alameda County Amid fears of lawsuits, the Alameda County Supervisors have back down from ban on big-box stores which was passed in mid-December....
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 11:46am PST
Administration Targets Federal Employees, Removes Protections for Sexual Orientation Recently, one of Scott Bloch’s first acts as newly appointed Special Counsel to the White House was to instill fear in ‘homosexual’ employees of the federal government. In an increasingly common curtailment of individual rights, the Bush Administration has removed decades-long protections from employment discrimination against those who serve our nation....
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 9:27am PST
April 2nd - Lessons of the Southern California Grocery Workers Strike Safeway Will Attack the Bay Area Next...
Posted: Wed, Mar 31, 2004 10:47pm PST
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