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7/11Solidarity Rally For SF Newspaper Workers The new publisher of the Hearst owned SF Chronicle Frank Vega name "Darth" Vega by Detroit newspaper workers is up to his old tricks. He is seeking major concessions from unionized SF newspaper workers and they need support on July 11, 2005 when they will rally....
Posted: Sat, Jul 2, 2005 12:04am PDT
Doten Honda strike sign 
The workers at Berkeley Honda (formerly Jim Doten Honda) at 2600 SHATTUCK AVENUE (btw Carleton and Parker Streets)
are on strike.
The ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY sign near Ashby appears to have been re-adopted....
Posted: Fri, Jul 1, 2005 8:17pm PDT
7/5/05 LaborFest Movies & Entire LaborFest Schedule LaborFest 2005, a multi-media and multi-cultural labor heritage month-long festival in the San Francisco Bay Area, commemorating the 1934 San Francisco general strike, commences on July 5 with movies "Mardi Gras: Made in China" and "The Concrete Revolution."...
Posted: Thu, Jun 30, 2005 10:50pm PDT
20 People Picket to Support MUNI Drivers Free Speech 
Members of MUNI Social Strike and other groups came out this morning to support MUNI Operators Victor Grayson and Bari McGruder who were being tried today by their union for speaking both against working conditions for MUNI operators and the proposed fare hike and service cuts for riders....
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 1:20pm PDT
Turmoil Again at KPFA After Six Years of Peace KPFA General Manager Roy Campanella II, on the job for a little more than half a year, is blamed for ignoring allegations of harassment. He’s even accused of harassing and demeaning women at the station and attempting to intimidate those who would report the abuse, charges he forcefully denies....
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 11:40am PDT
Picket to Support MUNI Drivers Free Speech Please come out in support of Victor Grayson and Bari McGruder, two MUNI operators being sanctioned for speaking out against both the MTA and their Union on the conditions of drivers and the plight of the riding public to proposed service cuts and fare hikes....
Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2005 3:04pm PDT
DOMESTIC WORKERS FIGHT BACK 
Domestic workers and day laborers gathered at Giron's Housecleaning Services to demonstrate against the company's illegal acts and unjust treatment of its employees. The early June rally was in support of Dominga Lugo's suit for unpaid wages against her former employer....
Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2005 1:03pm PDT
Troublemaker's Workshop in Oakland 
Join Us As We Celebrate the Timely Release of:
TROUBLEMAKERS HANDBOOK 2
Monday, June 27, 2005
6:30 PM - CWA 9415
1831 Park Blvd - Oakland...
Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2005 1:02am PDT
NLRB Update: Nutraceutical / Fresh Organics dba The Real Food Co. In late March & late April of this year, an NLRB Administrative Law Judge heard testimony on the Nutraceutical / Fresh Organics dba The Real Food Co. case. A decision on the various unfair labor practices charges filed against Nutraceutical prior and subsequent to the abrupt closure of Real Foods/24th St. is expected imminently. Here are some details on the case culled from the hearing transcript....
Posted: Sun, Jun 26, 2005 9:42pm PDT
Arnold can run but he can't hide 
Protesters follow the Gubernator everywhere he goes. HIs onscreen persona belies his real life bullying, cowardly nature....
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2005 1:08pm PDT
Iraqi Labor Leaders Call for Solidarity, End of U.S. Occupation 
Several hundred people gathered at a public forum in Berkeley June 19 to hear Iraqi union leaders talk about conditions in their country. Their talk was part of a tour sponsored by U.S. Labor Against War....
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 10:04am PDT
6/24 Injured Workers To Protest CNA Insurance Company In SF Injured workers will be picketing the CNA insurance company in San Francisco for threatening injured workers and refusing to treat and compensate them for their injuries on the job....
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 7:36am PDT
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
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