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Nike Watch: Building Toward May Day Actions!!! May 1 is international workers' day in many parts of the world and will be
a key day for the "Play Fair" campaign in the Philippines, Hong Kong,
Indonesia, India, Netherlands, Sweden and many other countries. The on-line
campaign tool-kit has a printable campaign petition and lots of ideas for
how you can support the campaign on May 1 in your town or city....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 10:43pm PDT
AT-Fuckin U ATU International Sits idiely By As ATU local 1005
gets Privatized!...
Posted: Sun, Apr 18, 2004 12:50am PDT
IWFRC: New American Freedom Summer 
Prior to working in Arizona or Florida, participants will receive training in Mississippi from leaders of the 1964 Freedom Summer. This training will take place June 28-June 30. Participants will begin work in Arizona or Florida July 1....
Posted: Sat, Apr 17, 2004 12:25pm PDT
Labor Study Is Alone Under Gov.'s Budget Ax Of the hundreds of research institutes in California's public university system, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has targeted just one for elimination: a think tank dedicated to organized labor....
Posted: Sat, Apr 17, 2004 11:54am PDT
Student Hunger Strikes Against Taco Hell 
19 students at U of Florida have gone on hunger strike in protest of UF's contract with Taco Bell....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 3:43pm PDT
Stop Union Busting in Haiti "The company pays for this type of thing, to destroy the unions. There’s a group of 20 people in the free trade zone who are paid to prevent the formation of any unions." - (IFCTU Report, disclosed by Charles Arthur, of the Haiti Support Group, September 2003)....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 6:29pm PDT
Office of the Special Counsel Says Gays Again Protected The Office of the Special Counsel has finally conceded that it was wrong to have announced gays and lesbians working for the federal government were no longer protected against discrimination in the workplace....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2004 12:00am PDT
Issue #17 of Canada's Grassroots National Newspaper The Dominion is a free, not-for-profit newspaper available in print and online....
Posted: Wed, Apr 7, 2004 11:45am PDT
Entervista con Carolina Luzuriaga de Ojo Obrero (audio/ogg 8.6MB) entervista con Carolina Luzuriaga de Ojo Obrero, grupo de cine y foto, Argentina....
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 8:45pm PDT
4/24: Support the Maquiladora Workers at Daewoo Co. in Mexicali, Mexico! On April 24, a Binational Conference in Support of the Daewoo
Maquiladora Workers will be held in the border city of Mexicali,
Mexico -- just across from Calexico, Calif....
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 12:44am PDT
Administration Targets Federal Employees, Removes Protections for Sexual Orientation Recently, one of Scott Bloch’s first acts as newly appointed Special Counsel to the White House was to instill fear in ‘homosexual’ employees of the federal government. In an increasingly common curtailment of individual rights, the Bush Administration has removed decades-long protections from employment discrimination against those who serve our nation....
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 9:27am PST
May 21: 2004 Pacific Northwest Labour History Association Conference Following is information about the 2004 Pacific Northwest Labour History Association conference "Reform, Revolution and Reaction: Workers and the Quest for Social Change in the Pacific Northwest" to be held in Eugene, Oregon, from May 21 - 23. More information is available at www.pnlha.org or email pnlha@shaw.ca...
Posted: Wed, Mar 24, 2004 9:45pm PST
Statement on the Southern California Grocery strike by Labors Militant Voice The union leadership let so. cal workers down. Unions should return to the methods of the 1930s and lead a fight for health care for all....
Posted: Tue, Mar 23, 2004 11:30pm PST
40 million strike--against a ban on strikes! One of the biggest strikes in world history took place 3 weeks ago in India, but the U.S. media chose to ignore it! (I just found out about it today). Briefly, India's supreme court had ruled that it was illegal for government workers to strike, so in order to protest the ruling and pressure the government: the workers--went on strike!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 9:09pm PST
Action to Support Garment Workers Struggle for Justice: Tarrant México Ajalpan Campaign Mexican workers to visit SF next week prior to NAFTA hearing...
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 2:20pm PST
Coca-Cola Workers go on Hunger Strike in Colombia This morning, Monday March 15, Coca-Cola union workers in Colombia began a hunger strike in front of the Coke bottling plants in Barrancabermeja, Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Cúcuta, Medellín, and Valledupar....
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2004 7:21pm PST
Workers in Colombia Start National Hunger Strike: Will Coca Cola Let them Die? Coca Cola bottling workers in Colombia start national hunger strike. Communique: "We're doing this to denounce, nationally and internationally, that nine Coca-Cola workers have been killed and 67 have been threatened with death; and that we've been the victims of attempted murder, kidnappings, forced displacement..."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2004 9:04am PST
Haiti rebel army already using weapons to defend Levi's profits Union-busting at the CODEVI Free Trade Zone
Haiti rebel army already using weapons in bosses' defense!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 11:48am PST
Your Factory, Under Worker Control: Lessons from Argentina Every day, the 330 workers of Zanón Ceramics Factory
(Cerámica Zanón) who both work at and run the largest ceramic floor-tile factory in Argentina are, legally speaking,
usurping the factory and its machinery....
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 11:19am PST
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