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Labor Contingent at SF Pride
Come look for us in the assembly area Sunday
morning - we start at 10:00am, on Spear St, between Howard & Folsom. You can't
miss us - we'll be in a cable car!* So, bring your banners, wear your colorful
best (where else can you wear those snazzy union T's?), and don't forget
your sun gear!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 11:24am PDT
Interview with U.C. Berkeley CUE Workers on recent 3-day strike (audio/mpeg 9.5MB)
Amatullah Alaji-Sabrie and Toni Mendocino, UC Berkeley workers and Coalition of University Employees members, discuss last week's 3-day strike over clerical workers' demands, providing insight into negotiations issues and strategies for the statewide labor campaign. (20 minutes)...
Posted: Sun, Jun 19, 2005 9:25pm PDT
Public Forum with Iraqi Oil Union Leaders
Sunday, June 19th 2005 6:45-9 PM
Location:
St. Joseph the Worker Church 1640 Addison St. (betw. Jefferson & McGee) Berkeley California...
Posted: Sun, Jun 19, 2005 11:17am PDT
Pictures From Saturday June 18th Picket At Berkeley Honda
Picket to Support Machinists 1546 on Strike at Berkeley Honda.
The Picket WIll Continue Until Around 9pm Each Day...
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 6:13pm PDT
IWW-IU 670/Buyback Contract Negotiations Open With a Bang
BERKELEY, CA - At 1:45 PM on Tuesday June 14, the recycling yard at Community Conservation Centers, Inc., better known as Buyback, grew suddenly silent. The paper line stopped, followed by glass and plastic. The forklifts and trucks pulled into parking spaces, and the roar of their engines died....
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 6:00pm PDT
June 26th Town Hall meeting to organize for a social strike on SF's MUNI
A Town Hall meeting to get together leafletting and postering for a social strike on San Francisco's MUNI....
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 2:55pm PDT
United engineers unite
United Airlines engineers hold an informational picket to spur on contract negotioans...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 4:14pm PDT
Lynn Woolsey, et al Will Respond to Recent Wave of Union-Busting in Sonoma County
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, Assemblywoman Noreen Evans, and Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Will Respond to Recent Wave of Union-Busting in Sonoma County...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:56pm PDT
Join the Picket and Support Machinists 1546 Strike at Berkeley Honda!
In support of Machinists union Local 1546, all former Doten
Honda service and parts employees will not cross this
informational picket line until this issue is resolved. Please
do not patronize! Strike sanction has been authorized by the
Central Labor Council, Alameda County AFL-CIO. For more
information, please call Don Crosatto at 638 6705 or the Labor
Council at 632 4242....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 4:47pm PDT
Boycott Gallo!
Photos from Tuesday's Gallo Wine Boycott Kickoff...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 4:05pm PDT
CUE On Strike! (video/quicktime 23.0MB)
Battered by years of increasing labor unrest, the University of California saw more of the same this week as clerical workers on all ten campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab left their offices and took it to the streets for three days in a row.
Three-minute QT movie. 23MB....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 10:20pm PDT
Defeat Anti-Labor Nazi Schwarzenegger in November
Our current Nazi in the state house, Gov Schwarzenegger, has delivered the anti-labor special election this November to his capitalist patrons, for which they paid him to become governor to do. It is time for everyone to do everything they can to defeat this thug's fascist initiatives, not only to save the State of California, but also to stop the growing fascist state in the USA, and the threat to world peace....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 9:47pm PDT
Student/Farmworker Alliance: Summer Encuentro & Call for Donations
Join students and youth from around the country for a week of skill shares, reflection, community-building, trainings, and a two-day national strategy session as we plan for the next phase of youth activism after the historic and precedent-setting victory of the Taco Bell boycott. The Encuentro will take place in Immokalee, FL, from August 1-7....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 3:13pm PDT
Union Members Attacked by Governator
In a shocking report this Sunday, the Los Angeles Times revealed
that Governor Schwarzenegger's top advisors announced a strategy
to create a "phenomenon of anger" against union members....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 10:37am PDT
Solidarity With Farm Workers - Boycott Gallo Wines - Rally This Tuesday!
GALLO WINE BOYCOTT KICKOFF RALLY this TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 12 NOON at SF CITY HALL...
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 4:11am PDT
Listener Comments From June 11 KPFA Board Meeting
KPFA is in serious trouble. Reports of violence and sexual harrasment suits keep emerging from a growing cloud of abuse and discontent at the cornerstone of progressive broadcasting....
Posted: Sat, Jun 11, 2005 3:49pm PDT
KPFA Board Meeting LIVE
In conjunction with indybay.org, we will once again attempt to bring you a live KPFA Board meeting, this Saturday from Berkeley's Freight and Salvage...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 6:32pm PDT
McDonald’s Unveils an Extreme Makeover June 10
New Ad Campaign Launches As ‘McLibel’ Premieres in the U.S. with Boycott of Fast Food Chain...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 3:59pm PDT
6/13-14 UCB CLERICALS STRIKE HOURS AND LOCATIONS
>>On Monday June 13, Tuesday June 14, and Wednesday June 15, CUE, the
union
>>that represents UC clerical workers on all the UC campuses will be on
>>strike to demand increased wages....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 10:46am PDT