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March for Justice for Woodfin Workers Meet at Emeryville City Hall (1330 Park Ave. at Hollis)
March to the Woodfin Suites (5800 Shellmound St. at Powell)...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 3:37pm PDT
CSU EAST BAY FACULTY GOING ON STRIKE! 
The CSUEB Teachers are going on strike, which side will you be on....
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 4:11pm PDT
Racist Threats Led to Fresno Strike 
A CMC Rebar supervisor threatened to have the Aryan Brotherhood kill a union worker. The company did not discipline the supervisor and has threatened to fire the worker. What is wrong with this picture?...
Posted: Tue, Mar 27, 2007 6:34pm PDT
Salinas: Marcha y Celebracion en Honor a Cesar E. Chavez (4/1) 
Celebremos la vida de Cesar Chavez.
Domingo, 1 de abril, 2007
10:00am
Calle Alisal y Sanborn, Salinas CA...
Posted: Tue, Mar 27, 2007 12:34am PDT
ILWU Local 10 endorses May Day -- El Gran Paro II THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Local 10 participates in the Great American Boycott II...
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 11:51pm PDT
Foro de Migrawatch mp3 Audio Aviso (audio/mpeg 952.7KB) Oficiales de inmigracion han estado haciendo redadas por todo el pais. Recientemente en Los Angeles, mas de 750 personas fueron deportadas. El ano pasado, la migra se llevo a mas de 100 personas del Condado de Santa Cruz. En memoria del gran Cesar Chavez, los invitamos a crear un Plan de Accion para Watsonville en caso que regrese la migra. Tendremos abogados expertos en el proceso inmigratorio, activistas, sacerdotes y politicos locales. Se contestara cualquier pregunta acerca de inmigracion...
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 11:50pm PDT
Ironworkers Local 509 On Strike Threatened workers, the majority of whom are Latino, are striking CMC Rebar of Fresno for unfair labor practices. CMC workers in Fresno voted in their Union more than eight months ago. Despite certification by the NLRB, the Union has not been recognized by CMC Rebar....
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 7:56pm PDT
Looming Crisis in Our State University System -- Urgent Action Needed! Nearly two years after the contract affecting more than 24,000 California State University (CSU) faculty members expired, CSU faculty – represented by the California Faculty Association (CFA) – have overwhelmingly voted to strike. If an agreement is not reached soon, a series of two-day rolling strikes will hit the 23 CSU campuses as far north as Humboldt and as far south as San Diego. This will be the first-ever system wide strike against the CSU, and the largest university strike in the his...
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 4:38pm PDT
Celebrating the Life of Cesar Chavez in the Fresno Area 
The following events in the Fresno area are in celebration of the life of Cesar Chavez. Below is a photo from a Cesar Chavez day march in Fresno in 2001....
Posted: Sun, Mar 25, 2007 12:48pm PDT
4/21 SF Screening Of "Carry On Ken" and "Rebel County" 
Two films about Ken Loach and the making of "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" will be
screened in SF on April 21....
Posted: Sat, Mar 24, 2007 10:21pm PDT
California Faculty Association Authorizes First-Ever Strike 
(L to R) Senator Gloria Romero, CFA VP Lillian Taiz and CFA President John Travis at Monday's press conference at CSU Dominguez Hills...
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 6:17pm PDT
California State University Faculty Strike Looming 
San Francisco State and our California State University System is the largest system of higher education in the US with some 400,000 students and 46,000 faculty and staff spread out onto 23 campuses throughout our state. On Thursday we wrapped up a strike vote within our union that many predict will overwhelmingly authorize our union leadership to set strike dates throughout the state sometime in April....
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 6:12pm PDT
As CSU Profs Vote on Strike, It's Time for Sunshine on Executive Compensation The faculty at San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, and five other California State University (CSU) campuses started voting yesterday on whether or not to strike if labor negotiations with the CSU administration do not soon reach an agreement. Ironically, tomorrow the CSU Board of Trustees is likely to approve a $103,000 executive payout to retiring CSU Dominguez President James Lyons. In addition, the Trustees are expected to approve a ten percent student fee hike at t...
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 6:10pm PDT
Protecting Sustainable Resources – Voting Sustainable With your Dollars and Sense 
Environmentalism is a colossal topic, and even though there are more environmentalists now than ever before, the majority of us do not always have time for the full story. When looking into where our food comes from, it becomes clear that organic agriculture is at the root of environmentalism. And although many continue to ignore the threat of global warming, claiming it yet another plea by environmentalists to curb our industrialized nation’s status as the wealthiest, most advanced country i...
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 3:06pm PDT
Busy Weekend for the Bay Area IWW 
The weekend of March 16th was full of activity for the Bay Area IWW. On Friday there were two workplace intervention rallies, the first at 6:30 AM and the second twelve hours later....
Posted: Wed, Mar 21, 2007 7:53pm PDT
IWW Theater Staff Rallies For Public Support Landmark Employees Demonstrate 
Theater Staff Rallies For Public Support
Landmark Employees Demonstrate Amid Efforts to Unionize, Renegotiate Contract...
Posted: Wed, Mar 21, 2007 7:49pm PDT
Grassroots Journalism discussed (audio/mpeg 16.2MB) Eesha Williams talks with Andrea on the Morning Show at KPFA about alternatives to the mainstream media, including indymedia. 24-minute MP3 file. 16MB....
Posted: Wed, Mar 21, 2007 11:13am PDT
IWW Rally at Shattuck Cinemas Video Short video of IWW Rally at Shattuck Cinemas 03/16/07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnquMYwgcno...
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 6:28pm PDT
Suprior Foods, Inn Foods, Wal-Mart, Target, ALL GUILTY! Letter to the editors of the Pajaronian and Sentinel about Superior Foods and Inn Food in Watsonville....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 11:32am PDT
If the CSU Teachers Go on Strike - Let's Join Em! On the possible strike at CSUs across CA....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 11:55pm PDT
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