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Fellow Engineers and Others: Unjustified Termination KPFA Voices from the Middle East Producer SA fired from professional engineering position in City of Oakland over mixup with professional license renewal; discrimination suspected....
Posted: Wed, Jun 25, 2003 12:51pm PDT
CBS 60 Minutes on IIT : Whiz Kids or Migrant Workers? CBS 60 Minutes claims that IIT is MIT + Princeton + Harvard in India. True. But what about in the USA? An IITian (Bombay) explores gender, caste inequality, brain drain, outdated grading system etc in a personal, yet critical set of essays....
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 6:54am PDT
Death by DMV Incredible true story of my death and eventual resurrection at hands of CA DMV - a humerous record of unbelievable incompetence....
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 6:30pm PDT
Let's Fight to Win Against the War on Workers and the Poor By abandoning their members and working class communities to the ravages of global capitalism as they are doing in San Francisco and here in Oakland, Union leaders leave a vacuum that begs to be filled....
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 6:23pm PDT
PayDemocracy - a new way to mobilize online A new way to mobilize is up at PayDemocracy.com. The idea is to create "smart mobs" that raise large sums of money for causes by aggregating many small donations....
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 3:33am PDT
Berkeley Bowl Hires Big Union Busting Law Firm Berkeley Bowl hired Jackson and Lewis to bust current union organizing efforts....
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2003 9:41pm PDT
Berkeley Bowl is Hiring a "Human Resources" person for "union avoidance&quo A customer brought this to our attention....
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2003 9:30pm PDT
Berkeley Bowl Fires Union Organizing Employee Dailycal article about Berkeley Bowl firing me....Lawsuits are being filed and NLRB charges are in process....
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2003 9:24pm PDT
Ministerial Protesters: Support the Janitors in Sacramento Janitors of SEIU Local 1877 are on strike in the downtown Sacramento area...
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2003 2:48pm PDT
[gangbox] "THEY SAY CUTBACK, WE SAY FIGHTBACK" "THEY SAY CUTBACK, WE SAY FIGHTBACK" race, taxes and billionare NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg's city worker layoffs...
Posted: Mon, Jun 16, 2003 11:27pm PDT
Vigil outside Irish Embassy in your Country June 24th. We go to trial on June 24th. in Kilrush, Co. Clare charged with $2 U.S. million disarmament to a U.S. Navy War Plane at Shannon Airport Feb. 3rd.
We are under a cloud of 10 year max. sentences, with a likelihood of 3-5 years....
Posted: Mon, Jun 16, 2003 2:26pm PDT
6/25 Oakland Protest Over Discriminatory Firing There will be a protest in Oakland against the unfair labor practices and discriminatory firing of Oakland City Engineer who is an Iranian immigrant. He was fired after 11 years on the job....
Posted: Sun, Jun 15, 2003 12:23pm PDT
A memorial desecrated, a massacre remembered Remember Ludlow! The cry of American workers ninety years ago again rings throughout the land....
Posted: Sat, Jun 14, 2003 12:57pm PDT
Who's the Greatest American? Both Homer Simpson and Bill Clinton made the list. Yesss! I bet I know who're among the Evil-ish American list....
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2003 12:27pm PDT
PARADISE? Which way to paradise? Can it be real on Earth ever?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2003 12:21pm PDT
[gangbox] THE TWO SIDES OF THE CARPENTERS UNION THE TWO SIDES OF THE CARPENTERS UNION, or, how can you call it a "united brotherhood" if some guys work every day and others barely get 2 months work a year?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2003 12:19pm PDT
Judge G. H. Tomlin finds Xamplify credible Judge G. H. Tomlin stated "their lack of motive for fabricating their observations and conclusions" and "character of their testimony" in ruling "the claimant voluntarily resigned without good cause."...
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2003 9:16am PDT
Gay employees say DOJ blocking 'pride' event Gay employees say DOJ blocking 'pride' event
Justice spokeswoman calls it 'internal matter'...
Posted: Tue, Jun 10, 2003 7:49am PDT
Union Practicing Unfair Labor? Yes! Unfair labor practices being committed by one of California's largest Stationary Engineering Unions against it's own clerical workers....
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2003 7:13pm PDT
Diamonds Are Forever | Facts About Conflict Diamonds Africa's bloodiest walords of the 1990s vied for control of the continent's richest diamond fields, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) and the Kono district of Sierra Leone in West Africa. Engulfed by ensuing wars, local diamond traders profit......
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2003 11:51am PDT
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