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Levi Strauss stands accused Two ex-employees of Levi Strauss are suing the clothing firm, alleging they were sacked for refusing to cover up fraudulent accounting practices at the jeans maker....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 6:07am PDT
4/19Forum On AFL-CIO, Corruption& ULLICO The BAWDN will focus on the growing corruption scandal within the AFL-CIO. A union controlled insurance company called ULLICO has been allowed by top officials of the AFL-CIO to make millions of dollars off of insider trading on Global Crossing Stock. What does this corruption mean for working people and what can we do about it will be some of the questions addressed in this forum...
Posted: Tue, Apr 15, 2003 5:49pm PDT
Levi Strauss denies fraud allegation Levi Strauss & Co., the world's No. 1 maker of brand name clothing, saw its bonds drop 12 points Tuesday after a news article was published detailing allegations of accounting fraud....
Posted: Tue, Apr 15, 2003 4:48pm PDT
AFSCME 444 Protests Police Attack on ILWU Members and Protesters AFSCME Local 444 protests police attack on anti-war protesters and ILWU members at Oakland docks last Monday April 7....
Posted: Tue, Apr 15, 2003 7:28am PDT
Santa Cruz Union Leaders Arrested Without Cause Deputies waded into the crowd and selected them for arrest, saying nothing to anyone, simply taking the two away in handcuffs....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2003 9:10pm PDT
Tears of Inspiration from Argentina "The chorus is "We are the future and the present, to resist and to occupy". It goes on with more inspiring lyrics. (Somewhere between 150 and 200 factories are now being occupied and run by the workers, the form ranges from occupations like Zanon or Brukman, to occupations that then ask for a judicial nod and become collectives."...
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2003 9:01pm PDT
HERO MUSLIM PILOTS SAVE DOWNTOWN ST. LOUIS FROM DOOMED JET Two pilots whose crash landing into the Mississippi River caused a brief concern of terrorist attack were actually heroes who steered their doomed jet away from populated areas, the top FBI official at St. Louis said Wednesday....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2003 6:23pm PDT
Bay Area IWW Rally and Organizing News The East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse Workers to rally on Sunday, April 13, 2003 from 2 - 4 PM....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2003 5:13pm PDT
El Reportero: Day Laborers rebel against Renee Saucedo El Reportero: Day Laborers rebel against Renee Saucedo...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 9:56am PDT
[gangbox] BOTTOM OF THE LIST BOTTOM OF THE LIST....will the new federal monitor clean up the New York District Council of Carpenters job referral system?...
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2003 10:56pm PDT
Stonemountain and Daughter Fabrics Workers Unionize We, the majority of Employees at
Stonemountain and Daughter Fabrics has come together as a union!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2003 12:25am PST
4/13Korean"Single Spark" & Videoo S On April 13 Dr.Chun Soon Ok, the sister of historic labor leader Chun Tae-Il will give a presention on the life&legacy of Chun Tae-Il and the Women Workers Movement in S.Korea.
We will also screen a video about the Korean women workers movement called ""I Always Dream Of Tomorrow"...
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2003 6:19pm PST
AFSCME Local 444 protests mass arrests 
AFSCME Local 444 sends letter demanding all charges be dropped against anti-war protestors and that protestors be freed....
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2003 1:10pm PST
William Mandel, American Dissident "If you think that I am going to cooperate with this collection of Judases, of men who sit there in violation of the United States Constitution, if you think I will cooperate with you in any manner whatsoever, you are insane!"
--From William Mandel’s 1960 testimony before the HUAC...
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2003 7:46am PST
Italy: FdCA on the anti-war movement The way to radicalize the movement lies in the realization of the idea that there is a strict connection between capitalism and militarism, between the fight for peace and the fight against capitalism....
Posted: Sun, Mar 30, 2003 8:18pm PST
Union buster gets Iraq Port Contract The pigs are at the trough and Bush has handed a private contract for managing the port of Umm Qasr to Stevedoring Services of America (SSA), a nasty union-busting firm....
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2003 7:38pm PST
East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse Organizes with IWW Workers at the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse have joined the IWW and are demanding voluntary recognition from their employer. They are holding informational pickets from 3/25-3/28/2003...
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2003 7:11pm PST
[Belgium]: Caterpillar workers on strike against the war. [picture report] Monday, March 24th: workers and employees, united in a front between the different trade-unions have stop working, at the start of every shift [ morning, afternoon and night ]. They have organised an assembly of the workers outside the factory, next to a main road getting in the town of Charleroi [ South-West of Belgium ]. Thousands of leaflets have been given to the car drivers.
The purpose of this all was to protest against the war done by Bush’s administration for the controle of the oil ...
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2003 3:53am PST
3/27SF Labor TV Show On Workers Speak Out On War& Rank & File Want Democracy The TV show "Labor On The Job" will focus on the growing protest by unionists against the war and the growing rank and file movement against corruption and for union democracy....
Posted: Tue, Mar 25, 2003 11:51pm PST
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