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photos from bruxelles, actionday 19th march 
photos from bruxelles, actionday 19th march...
Posted: Mon, Mar 21, 2005 6:35am PST
San Francisco port workers shutting down docks to protest war There’s a rising tide of workers’ anger against the war in Iraq and the cuts in government programs to pay for it -- in enforcement of worker- safety laws, health care, Social Security, education and jobs. The recent victory of the nurses’ union over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s attempt to deny adequate staffing ratios in hospitals shows that labor can turn the tide....
Posted: Mon, Mar 21, 2005 5:56am PST
What's next for California's nurses and their patients? California nurses recently won a well-publicized battle against Gov.. Schwarzenegger and the hospital owner's lobby, but this isn't the first time the lobby has tried to manipulate regulations designed to protect patients....
Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2005 11:21pm PST
Photos From Labor Contingent At Anti-War Protest 
Several hundred labor rights activists (and groups defending Social Security) gathered behind the tenis courts near 18th and Delores before the main anti-war protest. After many speakers, the labor contingent joined the main march to Civic Center....
Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2005 3:14pm PST
What's Left? "Lefty" Hooligan takes on the multicultural-pc-identity politics of the leftover Left. Reprinted from his column in Maximum Rock'n'roll....
Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2005 9:30am PST
Michiag Woes-Why people may be leaving I am confounded by the total lack of customer servcie & worker pride in the rustbelt state of michigan...
Posted: Fri, Mar 18, 2005 1:10pm PST
Report: Wal-Mart Has Highest Number of Employees on Welfare in Homestate Report: Wal-Mart Has Highest Number of Employees on Welfare in Homestate; Retail Giant's Ongoing Media Blitz Fails to Hide Company Record...
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 11:07pm PST
92% of UC Service Workers Vote to Strike Low-Wage Workers Say 'Disrespect' and 'Bad-Faith Bargaining' Are Key...
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 8:46am PST
An Overview of Anarchism 
Within the modern anti-capitalist and anti-corporate-globalization movements we have seen a marked shift from the hierarchical leftist groups of the sixties and seventies that were more given to intrigues, factionalism, and demagoguery, to decentralized, non-hierarchical organizing....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 11:32am PST
Defending Labor's Right To Protest The War 
This editorial ran in today's SF Chronicle. Please send this to every union member who you think might be on the fence about going to the antiwar rally on 3/19....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 8:56am PST
3/19Labor Programming at anti-war rally On KFPA On March 19, 2005 from 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM PST, the KPFA Labor Collective will be providing pre-recorded programming on the labor rally against the war on KPFA FM 94.1. It can also be heard on the internet at www.kpfa.org...
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 12:44am PST
Cal Nurses Association: Judge Blocks 2nd ‘Emergency’ Order on Safe Staffing A Sacramento Superior Court judge today issued a second injunction against the Schwarzenegger administration, blocking its second “emergency regulation” to suspend key portions of the safe staffing law....
Posted: Tue, Mar 15, 2005 8:51am PST
3/31: National Day of Action to Protect Our Retirement Across the country, unite to Protect our Retirement and tell Schwab: "Don’t Pick Our Pockets to Line Yours!”
WHEN: Thursday, March 31, 11:30 a.m.
WHAT: National Day of Action for Retirement Security
WHERE: Charles Schwab office
101 Montgomery Street, SF (off Montgomery St. BART)...
Posted: Tue, Mar 15, 2005 12:27am PST
AK Press Interview on 'In The Meantime' (audio/mpeg 42.7MB) Interview on February 1, 2005 with Lani Riccobuono and Zach Blue from AK Press, "a workers’ co-operative wholly owned by its members. All decision-making, including which titles we distribute and what we publish, is made collectively. Our goal is to make available radical books and other materials, titles that are published by independent presses, not the corporate giants, titles with which you can make a positive change in the world. The sorts of books we stock are less and less availab...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 4:40pm PST
Inkworks Press on 'In The Meantime' (audio/mpeg 20.1MB) Interview on Feb 15, 2005 with Bernard and Melissa from Inkworks Press in Berkeley, CA, 'a worker-managed union shop which has proven to be an innovative organization conducting business in a cooperative and democratic manner.'...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 3:15pm PST
Anti-Wal-Mart Oakland Town Hall Meeting What: Town Hall Meeting
Who: Community Residents, Small Business Owners, Community, Labor, and Faith Organizations
When: Wednesday, March 23rd, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: ILWU Local 6 Hall, 99 Hegenberger Road, Oakland...
Posted: Sat, Mar 12, 2005 12:00am PST
3/10 - Solidarity Action with Gallo Workers at Bev and More 
Around 100 people showed up at the Beverages and More on Geary St on March 10th to show solidarity with Gallo workers in Sonoma as they continue to bargain with Gallo for a new contract....
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 3:19pm PST
Remembering those who serve …A tribute to America’s food-and-beverage workers From diners and drive-throughs to gourmet restaurants, America’s dedicated foodservice workers embrace their long holiday shifts with cheerful attitudes and even enthusiasm for the stressful, if not Herculean, task at hand. For them, it is the best of times and the worst of times....
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 11:41am PST
General strike in France as workers continue protests against Raffarin government On March 10, tens of thousands of workers throughout France joined a national strike to oppose plans by the government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin to extend working hours beyond the current 35-hour week and to undermine social welfare benefits, including health care and pension rights.
The strike paralysed the country, disrupting transport and services in 55 towns and cities nationwide. Organisers say that nearly one million people participated in demonstrations across the count...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 10:40am PST
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