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Scenes From The San Francisco Hotel Lockout: Argent 
Pictures from the picket in front of the Argent...
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 11:22pm PDT
Scenes From The San Francisco Hotel Lockout: Hyatt Regency 
I was walking past the Hyatt Regency Satuday and got these pictures...
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 11:11pm PDT
Support Needed for Hotel Strikers: We All Can Help While we wait for the necessary general strike call from the San Francisco Central Labor Council that will guarantee a union contract for the hotel strikers within 24 hours, every single one of us can do something to help the hotel strikers....
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 2:39pm PDT
Ten SF Hotels Lock out Workers Ten of San Francisco 's largest hotels have responded to the limited strike against four hotels organized by UNITE HERE Local 2 with a lock out that has affected approximately 2,600 laborers....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 12:07pm PDT
UNITE HERE Local 2 Launches Boycott of Comfort Suites in South City Boycott launched of Comfort Suites SSF managed by Paramount Hospitality Management LLC. Terminated housekeepers want their jobs back....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 7:32am PDT
General Strike is Needed Response to Hotel Lockout A citywide general strike is the best and needed response to the hotel lockout that is now being implemented by the union-busting hotel owners. The people of San Francisco support the strikers; does the San Francisco Labor Council have the will to call a general strike?...
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 7:21am PDT
Starving Amid Plenty With society awash in cash workers are expected to take cuts and be thankful...
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 4:18pm PDT
UGSOA Members Vote to Stop the Payment of Dues to UGSOA UGSOA Members are Fighting Back Against UGSOA...
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 1:55pm PDT
Socialist Candidates on National Tour Urge Support for Million Worker March John Parker for president, Teresa Gutierrez for vp and LeiLani Dowell for Congress in San Francisco: Wed. Oct. 13, 7 p.m., African American Art & Culture Complex. Call (415) 561-9752 for information....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 12:11pm PDT
Audio Documentary of SoCal Grocery Worker Strike (audio/mpeg 18.6MB) Audio Documentary of SoCal Grocery Worker Strike: A Critical Look at the UFCW Strategy. This piece aired on KPFA & KPFK on Labor Day. It’s 40 minutes....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 8:40pm PDT
Photos: SF Hotel Strike 
Photos from the Local 2 hotel workers strike....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 7:53pm PDT
Local 2 Strike 
Approximately 1,400 hotel workers in San Francisco went on a 2-week strike this morning, September 29, 2004, against four major hotels in the fight for a fair contract....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 6:49pm PDT
Kucinich introduces legislation to lower drug costs “Now, the opposition from this bill will come primarily from the pharmaceutical industry and it’s easy to see why. They have a lot to lose. In 2002, there were 10 pharmaceutical companies in the Fortune 500. According to a report (by Public Citizen), the combined profits of those 10 companies was more than the profits of the rest of the fortune 500 companies COMBINED. In the same year, they spent more than $91 million on lobbying. Marcia Angell, the former editor of the New England Journal of...
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 4:10pm PDT
2 week strike called at 4 SF hotels Hotel workers have called a two-week strike at 4 San Francisco Hotels....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 5:00am PDT
11/25Latin American Working Class/Film & Video Festival The First Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival will be held in Buenos Aries between November 25-27, 2004....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 12:01am PDT
Building Bridges Radio - The Other Iraq and Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor?
Building Bridges presents this 29 minute radio show. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 9:09pm PDT
Strawberry fields forever — poisoning & picking 
Strawberry fields forever — poisoning & picking near Watsonville. 50 second video....
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 7:11pm PDT
Outsourcing Of Jobs At Valero Refinery Valero has contracted with Altair Strickland to provide refractory services at the Valero Refinery in Benicia. Altair Strickland chose to use Diamond Refractory based out of Texas. Diamond Refractory will be employing a workforce from Texas to perform the service instead of utilizing members of the local community. Further, approximately 800 Texas workers have received training from Bay Area Training Corp. This training is required to work in the refineries in the San Francisco Bay Area. It i...
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 12:52pm PDT
What About the Children? Bush takes back promised health care funds. At midnight on September 30, 2004, according to a new report issued today by the consumer health group Families USA, approximately $1.1 billion in federal funds previously allocated for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) will be taken back from the states and returned to the U.S. Treasury. Those funds approximate the annual cost of providing health coverage for 750,000 of the 8.5 million children who are currently uninsured....
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 11:17am PDT
SoCal Grocery Worker Strike History & Analysis 
This article looks at the SoCal grocery workers' strike and specifically the failure of the union (UFCW) to prepare and execute an effective strategy. It looks at the same issues as does the accompanying audio documentary, but goes further to look at the current and future role of unions in general. It was written for the forthcoming issue of Processed World magazine....
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 8:25am PDT
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