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textCall for Anarchist Contingent at Million Worker March by Coalition of Imaginary Workers
Washington DC, October 17th, 11:00 AM...
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2004 6:06pm PDT
textNational Student Campaign for Starbucks Workers by james
Join the Campaign for Starbucks Workers: An independent, student-led initiative supporting the Starbucks Workers Union IWW IU/660......
Posted: Wed, Sep 15, 2004 8:14pm PDT
textPetition against the firing of union organizer Tom Kappas by james
Take 30 seconds to sign the petition against the firing of union organizer Tom Kappas by Wild Oats. Link below....
Posted: Wed, Sep 15, 2004 5:25pm PDT
imageSpanish shipyard worker insurgency
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by Rebelde
Izar rebelde!...
Posted: Wed, Sep 15, 2004 3:26pm PDT
text300 days sit-in strike... by KCTU/ETU-MB
...by migrant workers in S. Korea...
Posted: Tue, Sep 7, 2004 10:55am PDT
textLabor Day Marks Improvements For Gay Workers by 365gay.com (repost)
As gay and lesbian workers mark Labor Day, newly released statistics show that a record number of companies support issues important to gay families....
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 11:40pm PDT
textBuilding Bridges Radio- N.Y. Labor Protests Bush and the RNC by Ken Nash & Mimi Rosenberg
BUILDING BRIDGES RADIO BRINGS YOU THIS 29 MINUTES RADIO PROGRAM. TO LISTEN CLICK ON URL LINK BELOW...
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 4:24pm PDT
textOctober: California Protests Operation Guardian by Raza Rights
Preparation continues for the march/rally planned for San Ysidro, Ca. on Sat. Oct. 2nd against 10 years of Operation Guardian and the neoliberal policies and theft against the people of LatinoAmerica. ALSO on Oct.16th, there will be a statewide march against Immigration Raids, for legalization for all and against the government's anti-immigrant policies....
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 3:59pm PDT
text Remember Retail Workers on Labor Day by IWW IU/660
Today is Labor Day in the United States (of course the authentic workers’ holiday is May 1). What does “Labor” mean though to most Americans?...
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 3:52pm PDT
textthe last years of the Situationist International by NOT BORED!
In the wake of the May 1968 uprising in France, the members of the Situationist International conducted an "orientation debate" as to what they should do "in the new era." By April 1972, they'd decided to disband. Here, for the first time ever in English, are the letters and documents they exchanged....
Posted: Sat, Sep 4, 2004 3:21pm PDT
textHotel workers to vote on strike in SF by SF Chronicle
Union employees at 14 major downtown San Francisco hotels, currently engaged in difficult contract talks, said Thursday they will vote Sept. 14 on whether to authorize a strike....
Posted: Fri, Sep 3, 2004 9:31am PDT
textBuilding Bridges Radio - UNPRECENDENTED: THE FLORIDA ELECTION DEBACLE by Ken Nash & Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 27 minute Radio Program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON LA INDYMEDIA AUDIO LINK....
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 1:38pm PDT
text9/1 in NYC: 5,000 person unemployment line! by PFAW
Don’t let the Convention be the only statement New York City makes that week: stand up and be heard! On Wednesday, September 1, THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE, a symbolic unemployment line representing the 1.2 million jobs lost overall since March 2001 and the more than eight million Americans who are currently unemployed, will wind through New York City. More than 5,000 citizens, each holding a pink slip, will form a line stretching from the corner of Broadway and Wall St., up to 31st St. and then w...
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 12:32am PDT
textS. KOREA, Migrant workers' struggle... by KCTU/ETU-MB
...report...
Posted: Mon, Aug 30, 2004 2:01am PDT
textMassive pay cuts, longer hours loom for 6 million workers as Bush guts overtime by PWW (reposted)
Next time you go to Burger King, you may find that the cashier ringing up your order has been promoted to an executive. But just like the BK crown doesn’t make you a king, the cashier’s new title doesn’t get her CEO pay. In fact, the new job title will result in lower pay and longer hours....
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 11:05pm PDT
imagePhotos: NYC - Starbucks labor Rally
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by jankyHellface
Amidst heavy police presence 5-600 people rallied outside the Starbucks on 36th & Madison in Manhatten. Two of the main organizers of the rally were areested....
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 3:16pm PDT
textNew Overtime Laws Devastating to Middle- and Lower-Income Americans by NOW
"Today, over 6 million working Americans will begin to feel the effects of the Bush administration's latest American holiday—'Wal-Mart Appreciation Day,'" said NOW President Kim Gandy, who joined Senators Tom Harkin and Arlen Specter, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, and hundreds of union employees in a joint press conference this afternoon outside of the Department of Labor....
Posted: Fri, Aug 27, 2004 10:45pm PDT
textMillion Worker March Event & Other Great Activist Events by Dan Bacher
This great list of community events is from Faye Kennedy, Sacramento Area Black Caucus. I hope to see you at some of them - put them on your calendar!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 26, 2004 9:02pm PDT
textS. KOREA, "Summer Struggle"... by KCTU/ETU-MB
...a great experience of unity and solidarity...
Posted: Mon, Aug 23, 2004 10:11pm PDT
textPetition to Save Overtime Pay by Working Families
When was the last time the government cut your paycheck? That’s what’s going to happen to millions of workers because of President Bush’s overtime pay take-away. Starting today, employers can reclassify some 6 million workers as ineligible for overtime pay....
Posted: Mon, Aug 23, 2004 8:48pm PDT
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