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San Francisco M0BILIZATIONS to raise Minimum Wage start Saturday This is an important initiative for the low wage workers of California, who fall further behind as the cost of daily living continues to increase....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 6:55pm PST
SEIU 415 emergency strike solidarity alert - action requested Your action is requested to support 1,800 Santa Cruz County workers preparing to strike this week. Please forward this message to co-workers and progressive email lists. In addition to the action requested below, please contact your local union leadership to ask them to take action as well....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 6:39pm PST
UC Sweat-Free Coalition Crashes UCOP 
Students from UCSD, UCR, UCSB, UCSC, UCB and UCD crashed UCOP to meet President Dynes in person and demand an end to the use of sweatshops to produce UC apparel and uniforms. Students occupied the president's hallways for one hour. We were promised a meeting with Dynes and then later chose to leave the building once we were satisfied....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 11:35am PST
A million protest against government attack on job security for young workers Close to one million students and workers demonstrated March 7 in 160 protests thoughout France against the CPE (First Job Contract) provision being implemented by the Gaullist government. Twice as many people participated as in a mobilization held February 7 to protest the measure....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 10:41am PST
UCSC Students Expose the Naked Truth of UC’s Use of Sweatshops The Project
March 2006
page 4
On Wednesday March 2, activists working to end UC support and exploitation of sweatshop labor organized at the base of the UCSC campus to present “The Naked Truth: UC uses sweatshops”. Stripping down to just their cardboard skivvies, activists protested at the East entrance intersection to chants and signs calling for the UC adoption of a policy that will ensure the manufacturing of its apparel in researched, unionized factories. Drawing media and administ...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 7:27pm PST
The Struggle Continues: UCSC Custodians Demand Wage Parity The Project
March 2006
page 4
Worker exploitation at the foundation of western capitalism has never gone unchecked. From slave ship mutiny, to the implementation of the weekend and child labor laws won by early labor unions, to the victory of AFSCME workers for a better contract from the UC last April, labor has always found new ways to influence the decision-making bodies that impede their progress towards fair, safe, and dignified employment. Even in the wake of major social victorie...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 7:22pm PST
The Land Needs a New Vision In capitalism, production is for the market instead of for satisfying needs.. The postulate `Work as cheap as possible and at the worst possible conditions' leads us back to the 19th century. We are far removed today from the 1985 watchword `More Time for Living and Loving'....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 8:36am PST
18th Anniversary of "Rat Monday" This week marks the 18th anniversay of "Rat Monday," where 10,000 construction workers struck every major construction site in San Francisco and attacked the scab Associated Building Contractors annual convention at Moscone Center. It was one of the biggest and most inspiring working class actions for decades in the Bay Area; the following account keeps the history of that high point in the class war alive....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 2:03am PST
Berkeley Honda Strike Support Schedul 
ALL EVENTS ARE AT THE CORNER OF PARKER AND SHATTUCK between Ashby and Dwight in downtown Berkeley....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 10:53pm PST
Oppose Bush Administration Effort to Undermine Civil Rights Enforcement A huge swath of our nation's workforce loses the benefit of vigorous civil rights enforcement if this data disappears and is not used....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 12:21pm PST
US: AK Steel lockout enters second week AK Steel’s lockout of 2,700 workers at its Middletown, Ohio, mill entered its second week Thursday as evidence mounts that the company’s provocative actions and its sweeping demands for job cuts and wage and benefit concessions are aimed at making it more attractive to a potential buyer....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 9:48pm PST
3/9 Oakland Meet/Video Screening On Epidemic Of Union Busting&How To Fight It Locked out Boilermakers Bob Glenn and Paul Sturgeon and other fired workes will discuss their
struggles for justice on the job. There will also be a screening of "Lockout 484" and
"Solidarity Has No Borders, The Journey of the Neptune Jade"...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 7:44pm PST
Union Scores Big Victory Against Starbucks at Labor Board Coffee Giant Must Rehire Fired Baristas and Rescind National Anti-Union Policies...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 10:48am PST
AFSCME Workers Take Struggle to UCSC Chancellor's Doorstep 
On the night of March 7, custodians of AFSCME 3299 and their families, along with student and worker supporters, marched to the gates of UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton's on-campus home. The more than 200-strong crowd demanded the Chancellor support workers' struggles for dignity and justice, including wage parity with other regional colleges where workers make dollars more per hour for the same (or less) work.
The march, organized by AFSCME 3299 in coordination with MEChA de UCSC a...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 5:06am PST
Doctors Protest Sutters Corporate Takeover; Marin Tells Sutter to Get Out; Alta Bates Summ Doctors Protest Sutter's Corporate Takeover; Marin Tells Sutter
to Get Out; Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Fails JCAHO
Readiness Test
Bay Area Doctors Say Sutter's Corporate Medicine is Bad for
Patients
Doctors protest Sutter's plans; San Leandro care at risk, 70
physicians claim...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:34pm PST
Berkeley Honda Strikers Need YOU ! Thursday 4:30-6pm
Saturday 1-2:30pm.
Parker and Shattuck in Berkeley...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 12:28pm PST
National strike by miners, steelworkers reveals class tensions in Mexico Last week, more than a quarter-million miners and steelworkers walked off their jobs in one of the largest industrial strikes in Mexico in three decades. Between March 1 and March 3, hundreds of mines and mills across the country were affected by the national strike called by the 270,000-member National Mine and Metal Workers Union (STNMM)....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:31am PST
AT&T acquisition of BellSouth to eliminate 10,000 jobs AT&T said Monday that its deal to acquire BellSouth will mean the destruction of 10,000 jobs over three years. The acquisition, valued at $67 billion, will, if it is approved by government regulators and withstands anticipated legal challenges, mark a major further step in the monopolization of telecommunications services in the US. As is clear from Monday’s announcement, it will spark an even more aggressive attack on the jobs, wages and conditions of telecommunications workers....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:17am PST
When 'port security' targets workers 
Jack Heyman - San Francisco Chronicle, March 6, 2006....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 6:35am PST
Anti-labor terrorists attack striking hospital workers at Eden Hospital The latest attack on labor picketlines occurred at Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, CA last week. Last fall, there were goons paid by California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco to attack hospital workers, mostly women, on the picketline. These anti-labor thugs are terrorists, and that is who the terrorists always are: Anti-labor, warmongering, racist, anti-women, anti-abortion, anti-gay thugs, and the politicians and captialist class who pay them. Terrorism is by definition a...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 6:32am PST
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