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Report and Pictures from UC Berkeley Service Workers' Strike 
Thousands of UC service workers go on a one-day strike statewide. Hundreds participate in pickets, rallies, flying pickets, and other actions in Berkeley....
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 10:11am PDT
Terminator’s pension scam takes hit SAN FRANCISCO — In a surprise announcement April 7, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he is delaying until June 2006 a controversial ballot initiative to change state workers’ pensions from public, guaranteed-benefit programs to privatized 401(k)-like pensions.
“The governor’s retreat on the pensions initiative is a huge defeat for the corporate special interest agenda,” Jim Farrell, spokesperson for the 2-million-member Alliance for a Better California, said in a telephone interv...
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 6:46am PDT
UC Santa Cruz. We Shut it Down! (video/quicktime 16.5MB) Statewide Strikes at University of California...
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 5:34am PDT
Update from Zanon workers in Argentina Over the last week, the workers of the
Zanon factory in Argentina have received numerous death threats. The
wife of a worker was kidnapped, had her face and chest slashed, and was
threatened various times  all in the face of police and governmental
indifference....
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 2:47am PDT
UCSC Shut Down: audio callins afternoon Audio callin reports from FRSC reporters afternoon
Bolth Main/West entrance Shut Down!!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 8:45pm PDT
UC San Diego Strike on 4/14/05 UC San Diego witnessed 1000 strikers and 300 at a solidarity rally today, April 14, 2005 in a long overdue labor action at all 9 University of California campuses and other UC facilities....
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 7:01pm PDT
Pictures From the 4/14 Strike At UCB 
Thousands of UCB staff and students as well as many labor activists took part in an all day strike and picket in Berkeley. The rally reached its largest point around 4PM when Robert J. Birgeneau was sworn in as chancellor. Birgeneau eventually came outside and addressed the crowd. (more reports and details will be posted shortly)...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 6:19pm PDT
News from the UC Berkeley strike As of 3 PM the picket at Bancroft and Telegraph was still going strong with about two hundred participants....
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 3:05pm PDT
UC Santa Cruz Strike updates UC Santa Cruz Strike 500 and growing at Main Entrance
many people turning away or joining strike.
pics & Audio SCIMC...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 12:32pm PDT
Smithfield Packing Guilty of Threatening, Physically Assaulting Workers UFCW: Smithfield Packing Guilty of Threatening, Physically Assaulting Workers - Again; Company Police Force Instigate Plant Riot in Assault on Workers; NLRB Orders Reinstatement of Workers, Payment of Lost Wages...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 12:38am PDT
Nike toes the line Nike, the athletic shoe giant, today became the first major company in the footwear and apparel business to disclose in full...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 10:46pm PDT
Silicon Valley "Pigs" - Where's the Outrage? In the last five years in Northern California's "Silicon Valley" we've lost 200,000 jobs, $2 trillion in wealth, temp workers getting short pay with unsafe working conditions, regular workers putting in 100 hours a week, schools and libraries closing while one single capitalist bureaucrat, Yahoo Chief, Terry Semel, pockets $231 million in one year. Where's the outrage?...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 2:48pm PDT
STUDENT AND COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY ACTION WITH STRIKING UNIVERSITY WORKERS Flying Solidarity Pickets
12 NOON -Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley
3:30 PM- Re-Converge Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley
4 PM- International House, Bancroft/Piedmont, UC Berkeley...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 1:30pm PDT
UC Workers Striking Tomorrow List of all the pickets and contacts...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 1:16pm PDT
UC Workers Rally, Win Promise of Meeting with Chancellor A noon rally of angry UC Berkeley workers in front of California Hall last Friday had a surprise result—a chance sidewalk encounter between union leaders and Chancellor Robert Birgenau in which Birgenau agreed to a formal, fact-finding meeting with worker representatives....
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 12:49pm PDT
Food and Commercial Workers File Charge Against Wal-Mart on Coughlin 'Union Project' Food and Commercial Workers File Charge Against Wal-Mart on Coughlin 'Union Project'; UFCW Calls on the NLRB to Aggressively Investigate Whether Wal-Mart Bribed Employees to Suppress Worker Support for Union Representation...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 12:03am PDT
Rockin' the Boat: CA Workers Comp Threatened (audio/mpeg 4.4MB) Injured workers rallied in San Francisco, April 4, as the state Division of Workers' Compensation, held
the last public hearing on proposed cuts in permanent disability payments for workplace injuries....
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 10:10am PDT
Rhizome Collective Interview on In "The Meantime' (audio/mpeg 16.6MB) Interview on February 1, 2005 with Scott Kellog from Rhizome Collective in Austin, Texas an educational collective that promotes permaculture and sustainable living, projects include Center for Community Organizing, Center for Urban Sustainability, an after school program and a brownfield restoration project. (Part 1 of the special 2 hour show; AK Press interview follows in second hour)...
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 5:51pm PDT
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