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Hundreds Rally for Hayward Teachers 
Hundreds of striking teachers, parents and students rallied today in downtown Hayward demonstrating their militancy once again....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 10:31pm PDT
Solidarity Action with Hayward Teachers 4/27 Several carpools are going to Hayward High School this Friday, April 27, at 8:00 a.m. to walk the picket line with striking Hayward teachers....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 9:34pm PDT
International Workers Day Festivities in Santa Cruz!! Sisters and Brothers,
Reel Work Film Festival is adding on a march down the mall in Santa Cruz for International Workers' Day on May 1. Please help us get the message out and join us for a pint at the pub, an invigorating walk and a great evening of songs, stories and films.
Come Join the Working People of Santa Cruz for a March down Pacific Avenue......
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 1:27pm PDT
4-25 rally by Parents and other supporters of H.E.A. strike Parents and other supporters of the Hayward Teachers strike will be gathering at 5 pm at the Hayward Main LIbrary then marching to attend en masse the School B...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 9:15am PDT
Speakers List For Sacramento Workers Memorial Day April 28th On April 28, 2007 at 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM from injured workers and their advocates will rally on the South
steps of the Capitol in Saramento to memoralize those workers killed and injured on the job.
Injured Workers and their families have faced torture and terrorisim from insurance
companies and their representative who refuse to take care of their injuries...
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 2:43pm PDT
Bargaining Update: UC Wants to Roll Back Our Benefits and Rights 
UAW Local 2865 is the union representing over 12,000 Academic Student Employees - Tutors, Readers, and Teaching Assistants - at the nine teaching campuses of the University of California....
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 12:21am PDT
Contracted Out Workers, Supporters Forced to Plan Major, Dramatic Action for May 1st Hundreds in a coalition of contracted-out workers, students, professors, local elected officials, UC union members, and community members will take part in a major, dramatic action on May 1st to protest the University’s continued contracting out of food service workers, who are forced to endure disrespectful treatment, a lack of health care, and poverty wages....
Posted: Sun, Apr 22, 2007 1:46pm PDT
UNITY FAX - April 20, 2007 
Long Time No Fax edition
Gaming compacts, worker safety also highlights
Members lobby for healthcare...
Posted: Sat, Apr 21, 2007 10:17pm PDT
Pacific Renaissance Struggle... 
Saturday, April 28th, 2007, 10:30am at Pacific Renaissance Plaza in Oakland Chinatown
(9th St. between Webster & Franklin) PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGED!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 21, 2007 10:14pm PDT
Dramatic Turn in Hayward Teachers Strike The district has filed for an injunction against teachers to stop their strike; 1500 parents and students rally in support of teachers....
Posted: Sat, Apr 21, 2007 12:54pm PDT
April 21: Film Screening:"Carry on Ken" and "Rebel County" Saturday, April 21 at 6:00 PM - Film Screening: "Carry on Ken" and "Rebel County"
New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, SF - Two new films on the life of working class film director Ken Loach and a film about the background to his latest film The Wind That Shakes The Barley....
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 9:23pm PDT
Hayward Community March from Weekes Park to Hayward Unified School District Office 
Parents and students of the Hayward community marched from Weekes Park to the District Office for a meeting....
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 5:59pm PDT
Anti-Labor Democrat Supes Daly & Peskin Attack SF Muni Workers You read the headline correctly: ANTI LABOR Democratic Supervisors Chris Daly and Aaron Peskin have written an endorsement of a viciously anti-labor proposed charter amendment that may not make this November's mayoral ballot, but certainly guarantees the end of the political careers of these 2 termed-out supervisors, and good riddance to both of them. It also demonstrates the need to never vote for Democrats or Republicans....
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 6:42pm PDT
Coalition Targets Tax Day to Push for Living Wage Yesterday was Tax Day – and the Universal Living Wage Coalition had supporters in 75 locations in all 50 states to call attention to the need for a living wage. Here in San Francisco, the Tenderloin Housing Clinic held a “Reduce Your Taxes!” banner from outside of our window. “If all businesses paid a Universal Living Wage,” says the website ( http://www.universallivingwage.org/ ), “we could reduce the tax burden on every single American due to tax payers from excess reliance on food stamps, ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 6:34am PDT
Fourth Day of the Hayward Teachers' Strike the fourth day of the Hayward Teachers' strike...
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 5:36pm PDT
Stanford Students Fasting To Demand Living Wage Policy On Campus Stanford students are fasting to get a living wage policy on campus....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 4:07pm PDT
Take action to clean up illegal farm labor contractor violations San Joaquin Valley farm workers need your immediate help before the grape harvest begins in June. The farm labor contractor (FLC) system is corrupt. Illegal violations are an everyday occurrence during the harvest. Please take action today and e-mail CA Attorney General Jerry Brown and tell his office it's time to crack down on these law breakers....
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 1:36pm PDT
SF Weekly Reaches New Low in Hit Piece on SEIU The SF Weekly’s current cover story attacking SEIU President Andy Stern involves a level of disinformation exceeding that routinely promoted by FOX News. While the story argues that “SEIU bosses” have engaged in a “secret sellout” of their members and nursing home patients, its only “evidence” is a 2003 agreement between the union and nursing home operators that was widely and publicly debated at the time....
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 7:52am PDT
The Day the University Ground to a Halt - April 14, 2005 
On April 14, 2005 thousands of students and workers at UC Santa Cruz shut down the campus in a coordinated statewide strike by low-paid service workers in AFSCME 3299. The strike, organized by AFSCME, clerical workers in the Coalition of University Employees (CUE), T.A.s in the United Auto Workers (UAW), students in the Student and Worker Coalition for Justice (SWCJ) and others, was one of the biggest actions UCSC has seen in recent years and led to a new, better contract for AFSCME workers w...
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 1:24am PDT
Stanford Students approach 4th day of fast, Administrators refuse to meet 
SLAC members entering 4th day of fasting for a REAL living wage through a Code of Conduct. Current Living Wage Policy for subcontracted workers effectively covers no workers due to many restrictions which the presidents own advisory committee recommended to be lifted. Despite years of protest, petitions, student senate bills, and the advisory committee's recommendations urging the restrictions to be lifted, administrators continue to refuse to lift the restrictions or meet with students or wo...
Posted: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 9:00pm PDT
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