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The Labor Heritage/Rockin' Solidarity Chorus will be starting its seventh year at City College of San Francisco and Laney College in Oakland....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 11:14pm PST
Todd Chrétien is a great activist and has offered much in leading the ISO in their anti-war movement and various solidarity and educational efforts. His foray into Green Party politics is a step backwards....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 9:49pm PST
Restaurant workers at Steak Escape in the downtown San Francisco mall united and worked with Young Workers United to force an abusive manager to quit....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 6:24pm PST
Labor researcher Jeb Sprague will speak about the role of the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center in Haiti
and how his research on this issue has led to retaliation against him at California State
University at Long Beach...
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 12:38pm PST
The Twentieth Annual Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival, honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s contribution to the civil rights and labor movements, will be held January 13-15, 2006.
The weekend of solidarity in an era of war, racism, and hard times features music, drama, visual arts, spoken word, poetry, photography and more....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 9:43am PST
Workers at Berkeley Honda are still on strike since the owners refuse to negotiate in good faith. Rallies are held every week on Thursdays from 4:30-6:00 and on Saturdays from 1:00-2:30....
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 6:11pm PST
Multimedia exhibit — photos, music, videos, DVDs, smellavision — from the carkness of worker oppression to the light of hopeful organizing....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 6:33am PST
On Monday Dember 5, 2005 a SF City hearing was held on agressive union busting in
San Francisco and Northern California....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 5:04pm PST
Workers’ Rights March and Rally
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Lithia Dodge
4901 Marsh Drive, Concord
11:00 a.m....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 12:28am PST
Where: Shattuck & Parker
When: Th., 12/8, 4:30-6:00
Sat., 12/10, 1-2:30...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 11:04am PST
Testimonies of local union activists who have been illegally fired, followed and threatened, and hurt.
Monday, Dec. 5, 2005. San Francisco City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, Room # 263. 12:00 press conference on City Hall steps. 3:00 pm hearing in Room 263.
Sponsered by SF Supervisor Jake McGoldrick and the San Francisco Labor Council....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 11:58pm PST
A SF city government hearing will be held on Monday December 5, 2005 at 3:00 PM at SF City
Hall on the use of union-busting tactics by N. California employers to prevent workers from
organizing, striking or having labor rights on the job....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 11:52am PST
Please join with California unions and unions across the country
to celebrate International Human Rights Day by declaring your
support for our fundamental freedom to form unions....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 1:50pm PST
December 5th, 2005, 4:00-5:30pm Frank Ogawa Plaza (in front of City Hall) Broadway & 14th Street, Oakland...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 1:47pm PST
Elected Officials Will Hold Press Conference on December 1st in front of
Stanford Hospital Showing Opposition to Stanford Hospital's Refusal to
Return to Bargaining Table...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 12:38pm PST
The fallout from labor’s refusal to oppose Prop. 73 (the “parental notification” initiative on CA’s recent “special election” ballot) will have an impact nationally and globally because it represents a prime example of labor’s refusal to “walk the walk”—not just “talk the talk”—on gender equity issues. Although women—especially the predominantly female CA Nurses Association—are credited for being the initial and sustaining force behind defeating Schwarzenegger’s anti-worker ballot initiatives...
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 8:55am PST
We leaflet grinch of all seasons —WalMart. 1 minute video...
Posted: Sun, Nov 27, 2005 4:13pm PST
Wednesday, November 30 at 12 Noon
Informational Picket
Mt. Diablo Medical Center, 2540 East Street, Concord...
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2005 1:57pm PST
Labor On The Job interviews Israeli university lecturer Ilan Pappe about his struggle
for equal rights in Israel and the boycott of Bar-Ilan and Haifa by the UK Association
of University Teachers for the harassment of him and his student....
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 7:04pm PST
A rally will be held on December 1 at 10:00 AM at Port View Park in the Oakland Port to
memorialize Rosa Parks, To protest the Iraq War and to support the Korean General Strike
against casualization and part time work.
This rally was initiated by ILWU Local 10 and is supported by the Alameda CLC. It is also
supported by the Committee In Solidarity With Korean Workers...
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 3:31am PST