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Hotel Lockout Ends Saturday morning, in negotiations at Mayor Gavin Newsom's
office, the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group agreed to end the
lockout....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 1:16pm PST
Bay Guardian Sues New Times Chain for Predatory Pricing The Bay Guardian filed suit Oct. 19 against the SF Weekly, the East Bay Express, and New Times Newspapers, the Phoenix-based chain that owns the two local weeklies, charging that the nation's largest alternative newsweekly chain had illegally sold advertising below cost in an effort to put the family-owned Bay Guardian out of business....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 11:37am PST
Hotel Lockout Over For Now; Community Solidarity Action on 11/20 Lock-out over... Workers and hotel management enter cooling off period... 11/20 Action to Support Hotel Workers......
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 11:18am PST
Native Americans Liberate The Rock Celebrating the 35th Anniversary of the Alcatraz Occupa On November 10, 1969 newspaper headlines read "Indians on Alcatraz";. In the middle of the night, Indians had chartered a boat and 14 of them had climbed onto The Rock to claim Alcatraz for the Indians. When reading the news in the morning paper, the vast majority of Bay Area residents responded with the expression of the time--"Right On"!...
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 10:44am PST
Kaiser Permanente, Chinese Hospital and PacifiCare Extend Health Coverage for Locked-Out W With 4,000 workers facing an end to their medical benefits due to the hotel companies' lockout, Chinese Community Health Plan and PacifiCare have joined Kaiser Permanente in announcing that they will continue medical coverage through January 31st, 2005....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 9:41am PST
Hotel workers pick up the pace in Los Angeles and San Francisco Leaders from UNITE HERE Local 11 and officials from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor announced Nov. 12 a boycott of nine upscale hotels, members of the Los Angeles Hotel Employers’ Council. The hotels include the Biltmore, Hyatt Regency, Beverly Wilshire, Westin Bonaventure, Wilshire Grand, St. Regis, Sheraton Universal, Hyatt West Hollywood and Century Plaza.
A Nov. 11 community meeting at the UNITE union hall brought together community and union leaders to help plan strategy fo...
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 10:02pm PST
Union isolates locked-out San Francisco hotel workers Hotel workers at 14 San Francisco luxury hotels are in the sixth week of a lockout that began on October 1. The action by the hotels was in response to a strike launched September 29 by1,400 members of Local 2 of the Union of Needle Trades Industrial and Textile Employees-Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (UNITE HERE) against the Hilton, Argent, Mark Hopkins and Crowne Plaza hotels....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 10:00pm PST
VoterGate Report: Bill Simpich & Terry Baum: November 18th (video/quicktime 27.3MB) Four-minute QT movie. 27MB....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 6:08pm PST
How to Win the Hotel Strike This struggle cannot be won if scabs are allowed to cross the picket line
every day of the week. Hotel owners will have little interest in making
concessions as long as their profits keep pouring in....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 3:14pm PST
SF Silent Vigil for Peace Photos 11/18 
Silent vigil for peace at Powell and Market, SF. November 18, 2004....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 2:30pm PST
shadwods 4 peace 
A few shadows held a silent vigil at powell and market today......
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 10:10pm PST
Hotel Workers Rally & March The Million Worker March Committee has initiated a call for a RALLY & MARCH to support the SF locked out hotel workers for this Saturday, November 20. Gather at 11:00 AM in Union Square....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 1:22pm PST
Defend GG park, remember TGs, and... ... protest oil addiction, watch Iraq film, hear authors read, perform your poetry, meet queer leatherfolk, do more.
Nov. 18 thru 26 in our SF Gay Area.......
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 10:14am PST
One Hundred New Pirate Radio Stations… 
I interviewed several micro-radio activists about the recent raids on Free Radio Santa Cruz and how it affects them. We dicussed what makes pirate radio fun, what makes it hard, why it is such a threat to the government, etc....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 6:20am PST
Dec 8th - Emergency Action to Close the PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant Now 
If the Government Won’t… The People Will! -- Close the PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant Now!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 10:53pm PST
Greenaction and Community Groups Denounce “Action Plan” to Allegedly Close Power Plants Backroom Deal Allows Continued Operation of Polluting Power Plants...
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 10:49pm PST
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